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AFTER six months and 5,012 miles, Volkswagen’s flagship electric car, the ID.7 Tourer Pro S, is departing Auto Express’s fleet. But only once I’ve assessed it through the lens of peak Golf GTI: my 201

THAT THE ELECTRIC Volkswagen ID 7 is the spiritual successor to the combustion-engined VW Passat is emphasised by it being available in saloon and Tourer estate guises; the Passat (more about which on

THIS IS NOW THE ONLY G80 available, as Genesis phases out all ICE cars. A mid-life facelift means it now claims 354 miles of range thanks to its bigger 94.5kWh battery, up on the old 323 miles and 87.

STYLE VERSUS SUBSTANCE: the existential dilemma that faces anyone choosing a product of any kind. Do you care more about the way the thing you’re buying performs, or is the way it looks your top prior

£254,200 OTR/£XXXXX 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 “THIS IS AN EXPERIENCE RESERVED fo

This week, a chance to run the road test ruler over the kind of Volkswagen we used to see fairly regularly some 25 years ago, during the firm’s ambitious Ferdinand Piëch-led management era that was se