Best hot hatch

IF YOU WANT to explain the BMW M3 Touring, daredevil Evel Knievel probably put it best when he said: “I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many.” Indeed, while the M3 Touring doesn’t overly c

EVERYTHING IN MODERATION. It’s a great mantra to live by, because all of our greatest pleasures can eventually lead to ruin and heartbreak if you take them too far. It’s almost as if our favourite ver

My father had a CS BMW. It was from the E9 generation, and it dated from around 1972. It was beautiful and I loved going in it as a child but really he knew what we all knew: it was the wrong car. Its

COUPES were big news in the seventies and eighties, but by the nineties the segment was shrinking fast, as car makers opted for hot hatches instead. Luckily for enthusiasts, Volkswagen did both, by se

MILEAGE 5235 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To find out why newcomer Jaecoo is one of the UK’s fastest-growing brands Regrets, I’ve had a few… and now there’s a new one to add to the list: opting for the four-w

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