Myth buster

THERE ARE A FEW GOOD REASONS why using hydrogen to directly power cars is a good idea and we’ll come onto them a little later, but the best one for enthusiasts like us is apparent the moment this prot

CAR editor-at-large and Nostradamus-in-chief Mark Walton doesn’t like ...

I wonder which stage industry boffins think we’re in now. Two short years ago, the bosses of McLaren Applied (now an independent engineering firm, Motion Applied) reckoned electric car development wou

Porsche is preparing to adapt its next-generation 718 Boxster and Cayman platform to accept petrol engines, in an abrupt U-turn on plans for the models to go EV-only. Production of the fourth-gen Boxs

Three years ago, Nissan celebrated building 250,000 Leafs at its Sunderland plant by using one to power a giant Christmas tree, complete with reindeer, outside the factory. There was snow (real, not f

Hyundai is preparing to resurrect the petrol-powered i30 N hot hatch, filling the gap left by the recent demise of the Ford Focus ST and Honda Civic Type R, a well-placed source has told Autocar. The