First drive: volkswagen id.7

£64,345 OTR/£70,835 as tested/£710 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: Is the seven seat Buzz as joyous to live with as it is to look at? DRIVER: jack rix THE ID.BUZZ IS CHEERY IN A WAY so many cookie cutter modern ca

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TAKING on the likes of the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes E-Class is no easy task, but Genesis has struck an impressive balance with its G80 – a car that, at least at first glance, has a lot of the key fea

Engineers don’t like plug-in hybrids. It’s the ‘two engines rather than one’ factor, and all that extra associated ballast. Marketing types have always liked them, though – dare I say, because they un

PLUG-in hybrid cars, depending on who you believe, are either a wasteful technological dead-end or a sensible compromise and valuable stepping stone to pure-electric vehicles. The truth, as ever, is m