Every month CAR interviews the stars of motorsport, demystifies the latest in-car technology and shares our writers’ passion for car culture and car design. Discover the world’s newest and most exciting cars: join us to drive everything from supercars and hot hatches to family cars.
Ferrari’s building manual gearboxes again. Kind of • Customers have been clamouring for the interaction that comes with a good manual ’box
Just how bad is Aston in F1?
The BMWs of your dreams
Hyundai saves the cheap-ish hot hatch, again
1579bhp? Is that all you’ve got?
Ding dong! The 911 EV is dead
Last hurrahs, new beginnings
Mission possible • Hard at work or hardly working? Either way, the new and improved Toyota Hilux gets the job done in fine style. But does the electric option make sense?
Triple crown, completed • McLaren’s already secured its place in supercar history, twice. But it won’t rest on its laurels. Meet the new W1
Bright and breezy • A folding canvas roof brings a new dimension to the already fabulous Renault 4, with virtually no downside
Opinion • VANISHING FIATS + INVISIBLE FERRARIS + HOPELESS POLOS
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‘Now we’re at the dawn of a bold new era. And yet we see mostly grey cars of mostly grey style’
‘This car was worth a fortune, yet the owner handed over the keys like he was lending me a paperback’
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St Enzo’s fire • Virtuoso, controversial, unique: Ferrari stands apart
THROWBACK OF THE YEAR: FIAT PANDA MANUAL • Yearning for the way things used to be? Well, yearn no longer – happiness is here
SMALL CAR OF THE YEAR: RENAULT TWINGO • The 5’s megawatt charm transposed onto something smaller and cuter? Sold
EV OF THE YEAR: BMW i X3 • Ground-up reinventions don’t always work. BMW’s has – and in some style
Kia and the colossus • Kia’s funky EV2 takes on transcontinental, traffic-ravaged Istanbul. Only the year’s best new crossover could hope to survive…
SUPERCAR OF THE YEAR: FERRARI F80 • No V12? No problem. Ferrari delivers a technical tour de force and remembers to pack the fun
The devil wears Audi • Ingolstadt ups its design game by a factor of 666 to create the Nuvolari, the new Audi supercar that makes everything else look fussy
FAMILY CAR OF THE YEAR: MERCEDES GLC ELECTRIC • The GLC brings luxury to every trip – and assurance to worried Mercedes fans
VA VA VOOOOOM! • Renault’s on a roll. We meet the man behind the magic and the wild, widebody flagship only a brand at the top of its game would dare to build
POWERTRAIN OF THE YEAR: BUGATTI’S HYBRID V16 • Bugatti’s new era demanded a post-VW special engine. How about a V16?
HATCHBACK OF THE YEAR: VW GOLF GTI EDITION 50 • Nagged by the notion that VW’s icon is dull these days? The Edition 50 blows that idea apart
PERSON OF THE YEAR: MATE RIMAC • Engineering and business visionary driven by a love of very, very fast cars
SUV OF THE YEAR: ASTON MARTIN DBX S • A proven great acquires genius via careful evolution, as DBX becomes DBX S
Kiasse act • Orders come no taller: create an EV worthy of the 3-series badge. But as we find in our exclusive drive, BMW’s succeeded, brilliantly
Embracing the flaws • Audi estates are brilliant for daily use, if not always the sharpest tools. Does the new S5 change that?
Tonka toy story • What a good...