Audi’s brought back the A2, and it’s gone electric Life&Style More than 20 years after the original disappeared from showrooms, Audi is bringing back the A2 as a compact electric hatchback. The new A2 e-tron is expected to offer more than 400 miles of range and cost less than £35,000. Audi is bringing back the A2, more than two decades after its famously clever little [...]
Is the Zeekr 9X Super Hybrid the new luxury SUV to beat? Motoring Zeekr’s enormous new 9X Super Hybrid is heading to Europe with 885bhp, more than 100 miles of electric range and a cabin packed with luxury tech. Here’s everything we know so far, and whether it could trouble the Range Rover. Zeekr is bringing its biggest and most powerful SUV to Europe, and it isn’t exactly [...]
Is the Maybach GLS the most excessive SUV? Life&Style The facelifted Mercedes-Maybach GLS arrives with updated styling, a mild-hybrid V8, an even more lavish cabin and a new Night Series edition aimed at the luxury SUV elite. The Mercedes-Maybach GLS, now badged GLS 680, has been updated with fresh styling, more technology and an even greater emphasis on personalisation. If the standard Mercedes GLS [...]
Is Ferrari’s first EV already a collectable? July 29, 2026 The first Ferrari Luce production car will be sold by RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week, with proceeds supporting the Ferrari Foundation. The very first Ferrari Luce production car will be auctioned by RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week, with the auction house valuing the electric Ferrari at more than £800,000. The car is significant [...]
Has Range Rover just abandoned the SUV? July 28, 2026 The Range Rover GT brings electric grand touring to JLR’s EMA platform with bold styling and impressive refinement. The Range Rover GT is the latest addition to JLR’s luxury line-up, and the fifth model in the Range Rover family, blending the style of a grand tourer with the practicality of an SUV. Revealed ahead of [...]
McMurtry Spéirling Pure: the £1m electric hypercar redefining what speed means July 16, 2026 The McMurtry Spéirling Pure made its public debut at Goodwood this month. With fan-powered downforce and a record-breaking acceleration claim, the British-built track car offers a glimpse of where extreme performance is heading. The ultimate measure of a performance car used to be simple enough. First it was engine size, then horsepower, then lap times. [...]
Land Rover Defender OCTA: Can an Off-Road Super SUV Really Conquer the City? July 15, 2026 With 635PS, Dakar-inspired engineering and a £147,000 price tag, the Defender OCTA is built for extremes – but does any of that make sense on urban streets? What is the Land Rover Defender OCTA and why is it gaining so much traction? Land Rover has a reputation for totally blinging out some of its models [...]
Citroën 2CV returns as a £13,000 electric car, and the timing is no accident July 12, 2026 Citroën is reviving one of its most famous cars as a sub-£15,000 electric city car. It looks like a nostalgia play, but it is really a response to a gap Europe’s carmakers left at the cheap end of the market, one that Chinese rivals are now moving quickly to fill. Citroën’s decision to bring back [...]
Porsche’s Toy Story 911s prove luxury carmakers are selling stories as much as sports cars July 11, 2026 Porsche’s trio of Toy Story-inspired 911s will never reach a showroom, yet they may be among its most effective creations of the year. They show how premium car brands increasingly compete on cultural relevance as much as engineering. Luxury carmakers have spent decades convincing us that engineering is their greatest asset. The best of them [...]
The Nichols N1A proves there’s still a market for cars that make no sense at all July 1, 2026 Steve Nichols, the Formula One designer behind McLaren’s legendary MP4/4, has finally put his name on a road car. The result is a £540,000 British supercar that seems determined to ignore almost every automotive trend of the past decade. The modern supercar is becoming a strangely sensible thing. Even Ferrari is building an electric car, [...]
