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CAN NISSAN DO A RENAULT IN THIS CHALLENGING ERA?

These are tough times for global car makers:

BABY DEFENDER EV TO GUN FOR MERCEDES LITTLE G

Land Rover’s new entry-level electric 4x4 looks on course for a 2027 launch

AMG AXES C63’S UNLOVED FOUR-POT FOR BIGGER SIX

New 3.0-litre straight six to be installed at facelift to revive lacklustre sales

FUTURE HYUNDAIS RETAIN SWITCHGEAR

Button-friendly ethos of current Hyundais will be applied

NEW ELECTRIC CAYENNE ON TRACK FOR DEBUT THIS YEAR

Next-gen EV-only version of Porsche’s best-seller shows new aero look

MORGAN BULLISH ABOUT US SALES DESPITE TARIFF

SALES OF MORGAN’S sports cars will not be

LATEST EX90 BOOSTS RANGE, CUTS PRICE

THE VOLVO EX90 has gained a single-motor variant

AUDI A6 SALOON TAPS HISTORY FOR SLIPPERY SHAPE

OFFICIAL PICTURES Rear end draws on Mk2 version

BOOST FOR CAR MAKERS AS HYBRIDS GIVEN UNTIL 2035

Government changes to ZEV mandate also introduce greater scope for carbon trading and exempt low-volume brands from rules

GAC TARGETS UK WITH MG 4 AND TESLA MODEL Y RIVALS

Two new EVs from the big Chinese maker will be UK-bound “very soon”

MAZDA REVEALS EV ALTERNATIVE TO CX-60 SUV

OFFICIAL PICTURES THE MAZDA EZ-60 SUV has

STRICTER SAFETY STANDARDS THREATEN LOW-COST CARS

Car bosses question need for tougher tests as new rules announced

BYD PREMIUM BRAND GETS SET TO CONQUER EUROPE

Denza offers “lots of unique features that legacy brands do not have”, claims Chinese giant

DB12 AMR EMERGES AT ’RING

ASTON MARTIN IS readying a new performance variant

SOUND IDEA TURNS ANY FLAT SURFACE INTO A SPEAKER

Continental’s tech enables an instrument panel to be

EURO NCAP SHARPENS TECH FOCUS

From January next year, the safety barrier set

Grapevine MARK TISSHAW

New Citroën ë-C3 is one of the cheapest

Steve Cropley

Haynes museum houses an array of Americana… MONDAY

Matt Prior

W hen is a car company not a

Damien Smith

Senna first showed the world how magical he

Testing, testing

Revealed at last: what the Mazda Kabura concept

Why I love... TOOLS

I am going to talk cars in a

What we did this week

CAN’T KEEP TRACK Imagine trying to focus

EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP

Letter of the week A recurring headline

YOUR VIEWS

WRITE TO autocar@haymarket.com A LIFELONG LOVE

Next week’s issue ON SALE 23 APRIL

FEATURE AMERICA’S 300MPH BUGATTI BEATER We

Lost in the archive

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ROAD TEST RESULTS

Autocar’s history of the independent, objective and empirical

FORD PUMA GEN-E

Britain’s favourite car turns electric, promising the same fun and practicality plus excellent efficiency

MORGAN SUPERSPORT

Unique sports car maker reinvents and renames its flagship

BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

Bentley’s electrification effort finally takes in its core two-door GT coupé

AUDI S6 E-TRON

Audi looks both forward and back with a rapid electric estate

Heavy losses, falling sales and a failed merger with Honda. Can Nissan be saved?

That’s the question facing the firm’s new CEO, 46-year-old Mexican Ivan Espinosa. JAMES ATTWOOD asks him about his turnaround plan

DESIGN BOSS: NISSAN MUST LET ‘CUSTOMERS CHANGE THE COMPANY’

Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s US-born global design boss, has

A roll in the Sakura

JAMES ATTWOOD gets a glimpse of a future filled with tiny electric cars by driving Japan’s best-selling EV, the Nissan Sakura

Spec-tacular

One of the thrills of buying a car like the Valhalla is that you can spec it just how you want. ALEX GOY does precisely that at Aston Martin HQ

End of the line

Vauxhall’s Luton plant shut for good two weeks ago, ending the firm’s 120 years in the town. JOHN EVANS celebrates that long, rich history

Vauxhall in Luton

1857 Vauxhall founded as a pump maker

MINI COOPERS

Is the petrol hot hatch a spent force? Not based on this 6000-mile test

BENTLEY BENTAYGA

Our fleet is mostly electric now, but we will always make space for a V8

RENAULT SCENIC

Curious CarPlay glitch frustrates – but at least there is a silver lining

VOLVO EX40

A house move reveals just how practical this small SUV really is

FORD EXPLORER

“Are you a VW in disguise?” they chant, but our man doesn’t mind

MAZDA MX-5

We pit our top-spec MX-5against an electric-powered original on track

SUPERMINI THAT HANDLES SPACE BETTER THAN NASA

HOW TO BUY A HONDA JAZZ

How to get one in your garage

AN OWNER’S VIEW HARRY TSANG “I

It came from outer space Wolfsburg

P arked on a suburban side road, David

Compact, rear-driven and manual: perfect

In July last year, the time came to

Head to head

JONATHAN BRYCE 2007 SAAB 9-3V6 AERO 2 CONVERTIBLE

CAUGHT IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

TOYOTA PRIUS 1.8 VVTi T-SPIRIT 2013, 66,000

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