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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.

Welcome

Insider • Skoda has a simple yet hugely ambitious target for its new Kodiaq: it should be the very best family car.

‘Is Skoda getting ideas above its station?’

BUSINE SS AS ( ALMOST) USUAL • We drive Skoda’s new SUV in prototype form

FAST VWS: THE FUTURE • It looks bright (and electric) for GTI and R. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AND R.I.P. • The huge-selling Passat is 50 years old, and surely doomed. We celebrate its highs and lows

THE BIG EV RECYCLE BIN • Electric sub-brands like EQ and ID have done their job. So what’s next?

My career in three sketches

DISTANT TEMPTATIONS • Four new China-flavoured EVs coming to Europe very soon.

‘WE CAN BE A BIT RADICAL’ • More polished but not too polished – that’s the Goldilocks task facing Dacia’s design chief.

Six questions only we would ask

MERC’S NEUE KLASSE FIGHTER • BMW’s not the only premium car maker plotting a battery-electric revolution. Concept CLA previews the small Mercedes of the future.

ALFA’S ‘NEW’ V6 ENGINE • Success, particularly in Alfa’s corner of Italy, has many fathers.

TWEAKING A GT3 RS SET-UP ON THE FLY • Suspension, downforce, differential and more can be adjusted with these controls.

Ray gun • Built for sun. Built for speed. Ferrari’s new £210k ‘entry-level’ convertible is so much more than just a thing of beauty

Keep it in the family • The only surprise about the 500e’s big brother is how good it is

More or less • New CLE replaces coupe versions of C-Class and E-Class, superbly

The neutral zone • Second-generation electric Kona doubles down on sensible

The simple, light one • Amid the electric hullabaloo, a Lotus that does what Lotuses do best

Sharp where it matters • Electric 5-series, or bigger i4? Or both? The hefty new i5 still does the important 5-series things right

Dreaming of a £20k Lambo

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‘MG was fondly remembered but about as modern and relevant as Churchill in his homburg’

‘We drive along in four-wheeled containers, cooled by air-con, oblivious to the potential dangers out there’

FULL METAL JACKED • The V12 4x4 Purosangue is a big deal for Ferrari. But does it upend the luxury SUV sector?

HOW TO BUILD A TESLA IN 10 MINUTES • At 31 football pitches, Tesla’s first European factory is a monster. We go inside to learn its secrets

E-TURN OF THE MAC • Like Top Gun: Maverick it’s late and hotly anticipated. Here’s what we discovered driving the all-new, all-electric Porsche Macan

HAPPY VALLEY • Winter is coming. But first, a pair of open-top Italian supercars, on sublime Italian roads, on a perfect late-summer afternoon…

Tangoing with a Taycan • An EV that, miraculously, drives as well as any other Porsche. 

Hold the hybrid hype • It’s not the Messiah, but it is a very impressive package. 

Full of surprises • Hybrid hiccups. 

Feeling the need for anything but speed • How fast? Who cares… 

They’ll never know • Unless they read this.

Is this the one? • No, it’s the ID. 5. But maybe it’s the electric VW we’ve been waiting for.

The big and the boxy • The seven seats earn their keep on a visit to a VW gathering.

Zen and the art of decluttered cars

Yes, I needs two cruise controls

Public indecencies

Ace of space • Never mind how it drives or how it looks – the Ioniq 5 cabin is brilliantly...