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MILEAGE 5108 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Finally, a proper electric hot hatch – but is it as usable as the regular Renault 5? There’s an amusing if inconvenient irony to the A290’s affinity for warmer climes

FOR MANY, FRANCE is the go-to place for wine, cheese or a summer holiday. But what about a sporty, premium electric SUV? A lot of people wouldn’t look past the German brands for one of these, but the

WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Finally, a proper EV hot hatch – but is it as brilliant every day as the Renault 5 on which it’s based? This will be interesting: what happens when you take a highly acclaimed new

People are prone to certain behavioural ticks, the sort of misjudgements that depart from rationality. This would be one of them. On entering the environs of an active airbase, the sensible thing to d

I’M NOT SURE Denmark is big enough for the Kalmar 9X9. I meet Jan Kalmar at the impressive My Garage, a petrolhead destination in Jutland. Jan is proudly Danish and, as it turns out, the rural roads c

GROWING OLDER, I have found, is a deplorable process. Faculties diminish, one’s abilities reduce and, eventually, enthusiasm wanes. There is, in short, little to be said for it. However, last year I f