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T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

Dacia is replacing the manual, mild-hybrid, four-wheel-drive version of the Bigster with a hybrid (and doing the same with the mechanically identical Duster). Thinking logically, you might assume that

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew IT’S 5AM, AND YOU JOIN ME AT hom

The sky is overcast, and being somewhere on a single track road near the bottom of the Lake District’s Hardknott Pass at 11pm, that dark is reliably inky, unbothered by even the barest lumen of ambien

Contain yourselves: the Hipster is officially still just a concept. But it’s got our attention and bagged the TopGear Design of the Year award. Look at the size of it – a mere 3m long and 1.5m wide, b

THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE EIGHT cars to 2025’s evo Car of the Year. They’d be the very best cars we’ve driven during the last 12 months; the cars that made us smile, thrilled us and engaged us. The cars th