Every country has had a definitive “car of the people” — affordable vehicles for the masses. Germany’s was the Volkswagen (literally “people’s car”) Type 1, which became the Beetle; Italy gave us the ...

One way that businesses can easily decarbonise in these environmentally focused times is to switch their commercial vehicle (vans & trucks) fleets from running on diesel power to electric. With the ...

Skoda says it is the first European car manufacturer to offer its products through an Amazon showroom featuring live vehicle stock. Following a national survey of 2,000 UK adults, commissioned by ...

It seems a silly, perhaps facetious and indeed blindingly obvious thing to say, but the Porsche 911 is a Very Fast Car these days. The capital letters there are important: in its most basic spec — and ...

Skoda is like the guy who turns up to a party dressed in comfortable shoes, sensible trousers and a standard man shirt and slips in unnoticed, but by the end of the night has become everyone’s best ...

Barely a day goes by right now when there isn’t the launch of a new Chinese electric car, and while one of our most recent experiences meant enduring one of the worst cars we’ve ever driven (hang your ...

Car manufacturers are generally pretty risk-averse in their dealings with the media. Executives spend weeks in intensive media training courses having corporate soundbites etched into their brains in ...

The Defender Octa is not only the fastest production Defender ever made, Land Rover told us before our test drives, it’s also just as tough as the standard Defender 110. The Octa (a reference to the ...

You wait ages for a decent electric hot hatch and then several turn up at once. In the last few months we’ve had the Alfa Romeo Junior Veloce and Abarth 600e (review to follow this week), and now the ...

Variant: M5 Saloon Price: £111,405 Engine: 4.4-litre V8 twin-turbo petrol with 145kW electric motor Power: 717bhp Torque: 737lb ft Transmission: Eight-speed auto, all-wheel drive Acceleration: 0-62mph ...

Forget the European or World Car of the Year, these are the gongs that really matter: The Times and Sunday Times Motor Awards 2024. This website’s writers have joined forces with the our motoring ...

THE WAIT is over: we can reveal The Times and Sunday Times’ best cars of 2021, including the prestigious Sunday Times Car of the Year. The winners were announced at a glitzy event on the 17th floor of ...