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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 • Toyota’s tardiness with EVs has put it on the back foot. The new thinking showcased by the FT-3e promises to change that.

‘This new plan looks like Toyota running around in circles’ • THE DEBATE: TOYOTA’ S NEW-AGE EV STR ATEGY

THE BIRDS AND THE BZS • Toyota’s about to unleash a wave of all-electric newcomers

VOLVO PONDERS ELECTRIC ESTATE • Despite waning sales for wagons, a future Volvo e-estate isn’t entirely off the cards.

THE SILLY AND THE SUBLIME • Go serious or go wild with one of these four.

BIG AMBITION TRANSFORMING TINY ALPINE • Current line-up: one sports car. By 2030: seven EVs. How will that happen, and why?

My career in three sketches

‘THE ONE-SECOND WOW FACTOR’ • Five years after taking over Brabus, Constantin Buschmann is pushing the tuner into more varied markets.

Six questions only we would ask

LAMBORGHINI REINVENTS THE WHEEL • Sant’Agata’s ingenious alternative to rear-steer will debut on the Huracan replacement – but we’ve tried it already.

PORSCHE AND AUDI’S PPE TRICKS • The new EV platform is brimming with cleverness. No wonder it took so long.

BMW’S LEVEL 3 PERSONAL PILOT • BMW is among the first to commercially launch a hands-off assistant. We don’t drive it.

Winter! What winter? • Normal logic does not apply where Ariel is concerned. With the 4R, doubly so

Giving Greta the V • Eight seats, supercharged V8 engine – is there a more ridiculous car?

Dilute to taste • Lexus has deviated a long way from its original path in search of sales

The final frontier • Electric SUVs can’t do serious off-roading for long distances? Audi begs to differ.

Opinion • UNDER-RATED RANGER + SUPERB BAYLEY + ELON vs HENRY

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‘Gandini didn’t use Photoshop when he designed the Miura. Issigonis drew the Mini with a pencil’

‘I was recognised in the street and I briefly felt my TV career was about to take off’

HOT WHEE • From the best Golf GTI ever built to a half-price V12 Lamborghini, brace yourself for 11 sensational used buys that also happen to be sensational cars…

ELEVATE EVERY DAY • Honda and Hyundai hot hatch genius you can’t afford to ignore

TOKYO THRIFT • Prius, what Prius? Toyota proves you can bounce back from boredom

PAST MASTERS • Sometimes, not everything new is better. Just ask Mercedes and VW

SEIZE THE DAY • This life isn’t a dress rehearsal. So buy that Alfa, own that V12 Lambo

DONE TO A T • Ignore the attention-grabbing GT department’s cars to bag a bargain 911

THE OUTLIERS • BMW’s M3 Touring has all the headlines but the smart money is elsewhere

THE BOOTʼS ON THE OTHER FOOT • Established car makers lost faith in the saloon, but some of the best cars from EV specialists have brought new life to an old style – like this trio

THE BAR KEEPS GETTING HIGHER

CUPID FOR CARS • Meet the man uniting dreamers with their dream cars: Bring a Trailer’s Randy Nonnenberg, the used car tsar

WHY? BECAUSE IT’S STILL THERE • In 1995 CAR drove a Ferrari 512M from Maranello to the sands of the Sahara. The story redefined adventure drives and inspired a generation. Now, in Ferrari’s V12 Purosangue, it’s time to go back

Our cars • HELLO BMW M3 TOURING, VAUXHALL ASTRA GSE & VW ID. BUZZ + GOODBYE AUDI E-TRON GT + DRIFTING OUR PORSCHE TAYCAN

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