MERCEDES-AMG CLE

One big pothole inflicts a whole lot of serious damage

POLESTAR IS TAKING ITS GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL

This is a pivotal time for Polestar. Having

NEW 500 AND PANDA TO LEAD FIAT MODEL BLITZ

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PORSCHE 911 DAKAR TO RETURN AS HOT HYBRID

All-roads sports car due with 534bhp and innovative T-Hybrid tech

AUDI CHANGES MODEL-NAME STRATEGY – AGAIN

AUDI HAS REVERSED the recently introduced modelnaming strategy

DACIA BIGSTER TOUCHES DOWN IN UK

Dacia’s new Bigster flagship has hit UK roads

FERRARI EV TO BE ONE OF SIX NEW CARS THIS YEAR

FERRARI WILL REVEAL its long-awaited debut electric car

VOLKSWAGEN JUST WEEKS FROM UNVEILING £17,000 EV

Concept will lay bare the firm’s plans for an entry-level electric city car

JAG’S ELECTRIC SUPER-GT GIVES UP MORE SECRETS

SPY SHOTS New 575bhp-plus Jag is being

NISSAN TO PULL OUT OF MERGER DEAL WITH HONDA

Deal for Honda and Nissan to share tech

MUSK: TESLA’S VALUE LIES IN ROBOTS, NOT EVs

CEO glosses over firm’s stalled sales and makes bold claims for new tech

KGM’S NEW OWNER SPARKS OPTIMISM ABOUT UK FUTURE

“Pushing tech and design forward” after years of Ssangyong stagnation

Grapevine

CEO Olivier François’s love for Fiat is always

THERE’S NO STOPPING BRAKE-BY-WIRE TECH

Next big thing

Steve Cropley

MONDAY Everything’s relative, they reckon. That’s shorthand for

Matt Prior

T he electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class I’ve reviewed on p29

Damien Smith

Valkyrie will be only V12 and one of

Testing, testing

The suspension of future McLarens might be aided

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What we did this week

SURREY FOR THE PLUG I wasn’t too

YOUR VIEWS

WRITE TO autocar@haymarket.com PRICE OF LOYALTY

THE PLUSHEST PRISON

Letter of the week It was interesting

Lost in the archive

How new cars were designed a lifetime ago

ROAD TEST RESULTS

Autocar’s history of the independent, objective and empirical

Road tests revisited

1999 ALFA ROMEO 166 3.0 24V SUPER

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS

25 NISSAN ARIYA NISMO 28

BYD ATTO 2

TESTED 5.2.25, MADRID, SPAIN DELIVERIES JULY

NISSAN ARIYA NISMO

Performance sub-brand returns to spice up Nissan’s electric family SUV

AUDI A6 E-TRON

TESTED 5.2.25, OXFORDSHIRE DELIVERIES NOW

PORSCHE 911 CARRERAT

Manual gearbox is centrepiece of most driver-focused non-GT3 variant

MERCEDES -BENZ G580 EQ

Quad-motor G-Wagen has 850lb ft of torque to pound into the ground

POLESTAR 3

Polestar gets into proper luxury SUV territory while trying to stay sporty

PEUGEOT 5008

Seven-seat SUV has the style – and the price – to tempt family buyers

30 CARS FOR £30K

A £30k budget would buy you only one of the new cars tested in this week’s mag – or any of these used dream machines.

The shape of things to come

Coventry Uni students competed to design a radical FCEV supercar that Riversimple will put into production by 2030.

Cars for sale. Job lot

Bernie Ecclestone is selling this astonishing collection

LIVING WITH A… MG 3

Where our long-term test cars have been and what they’ve done

MAZDA MX-5

Atmo engine, manual ’box, RWD? In 2025? Yes, please

SKODA SUPERB

Yes, there’s range anxiety: we’re trying to go 800 miles on a tank

WHEN THE GOLF GTI REACHED ITS HOT HATCHBACK ZENITH

Just £6000 buys the ultimate version of this everyday performance icon

How to get one in your garage

AN OWNER’S VIEW PAUL WILSON “I’ve

There’ll be Bluebirds over… and over again

B etween them, Alex Jones and his dad

A hard life lived – with the scars to show it

Yes, it’s a sensible and staid executive saloon,

Head to head

ALEX WOLSTENHOLME 2009 AUDI R8 4.2 FSI

CAUGHT IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

FORD MONDEO 2.5 V6 GHIA X 2002,