This year is shaping up to be crucial for the car industry, as major manufacturers battle through what is perhaps the most challenging period they have ever faced. They will have to grapple with the need to slash their carbon outputs amid slower-than-expected growth in electric car sales, without compromising their business through heavy discounts. Indeed, that slowdown, coupled with an assault of new (and cheaper)… Continue reading Your handy guide to the 155 new cars launching in 2025
Author: Autocar Magazine UK
On the boil: how Toyota is paving a new hydrogen path
Hydrogen development today tends to focus on more prosaic transport, such as delivery vehicles, but Toyota’s projects err to the exciting. Back in the 2021 Fuji 24 Hours race, it fielded a Corolla Sport powered not by a hydrogen fuel cell but by a specially developed H2 version of the three-cylinder GR Yaris combustion engine,… Continue reading On the boil: how Toyota is paving a new hydrogen path
Quack on: Bringing Jeep Ducking to the UK with a Wrangler
Given the challenges of travelling at the height of the Covid pandemic, she made the 1000-mile-plus trek in her beloved Jeep Wrangler. But at a petrol stop shortly after entering Canada, then under strict social-distancing restrictions, the Alabama plates on her car attracted the ire of a man, who verbally abused and shoved her, telling… Continue reading Quack on: Bringing Jeep Ducking to the UK with a Wrangler
Why we finally love the Toyota Supra – just as it gets the axe
With a limited-run Final Edition special, the Toyota GR Supra is about to depart this earthly realm, nearly six years after it was launched early in 2019 at the Detroit motor show. It doesn’t seem like six years to me, even though Toyota had been talking about building a new Supra since 2012, we saw prototypes… Continue reading Why we finally love the Toyota Supra – just as it gets the axe
Private buyers bought fewer new cars last year than Covid-hit 2020
The number of new cars bought by UK private buyers last year was fewer than in 2020, when the country was in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Around 746,000 cars were sold to private buyers in 2024, some 1000 fewer than five years ago, when car buying was temporarily halted by lockdowns. It was also down 8.7% on… Continue reading Private buyers bought fewer new cars last year than Covid-hit 2020
Suzuki S-Cross
The S-Cross may externally look dramatically different from the model it replaced, but save for the more modern infotainment system and a little bit of rubberised material on the dashboard, the interior looks largely as it did in 2013. Back then, we described it as “cheap and cheerful but convenient and credible too”. About 75% of that… Continue reading Suzuki S-Cross
Welcome back, Volvo V60: This excellent estate has plenty of life left
Like Subbuteo, the church, salad cream or Jaguar, the Volvo estate seems like one of those things that just ought to be around even if you’re not actually going to use it. There will always be Volvo estates, won’t there? There have been for more than 70 years. In fact, people have been making Volvo… Continue reading Welcome back, Volvo V60: This excellent estate has plenty of life left
Welcome back, Volvo V60: This excellent estate has plenty of life left
Like Subbuteo, the church, salad cream or Jaguar, the Volvo estate seems like one of those things that just ought to be around even if you’re not actually going to use it. There will always be Volvo estates, won’t there? There have been for more than 70 years. In fact, people have been making Volvo… Continue reading Welcome back, Volvo V60: This excellent estate has plenty of life left
Dacia, dustier: inside the firm’s plan to dominate the Dakar
Also, in the wake of the brand’s repositioning as the rugged, outdoors choice for those on a budget, the epic rally meets Dacia’s new principle for “human adventure”. “The ambition is to win,” says Broad. “But this is also an outdoor technical laboratory to develop innovations that will influence our road cars, and it’s an… Continue reading Dacia, dustier: inside the firm’s plan to dominate the Dakar
Dacia, dustier: inside the firm’s plan to dominate the Dakar
Also, in the wake of the brand’s repositioning as the rugged, outdoors choice for those on a budget, the epic rally meets Dacia’s new principle for “human adventure”. “The ambition is to win,” says Broad. “But this is also an outdoor technical laboratory to develop innovations that will influence our road cars, and it’s an… Continue reading Dacia, dustier: inside the firm’s plan to dominate the Dakar