Episode 75 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talking the trouble with parking apps, contemplating a new career driving hovercraft, getting back into a familiar lovely car, driving the Catesby Tunnel aerodynamic testing site and much more besides, including your correspondence. Make sure… Continue reading My Week In Cars: New Steve Cropley/Matt Prior podcast (ep. 75)
Author: Autocar Magazine UK
Pick-ups face huge tax hike as they lose commercial vehicle status
Double-cab pick-up trucks are set to lose their status as commercial vehicles when it comes to paying company car tax. Massive changes to the benefit-in-kind (BIK) rules will mean that company car drivers will face a near-fivefold increase in personal tax bills for any such pick-up purchased from 1 July 2024. Currently, any pick-up that meets the… Continue reading Pick-ups face huge tax hike as they lose commercial vehicle status
Chrysler previews electric cars with radical super-saloon
Chrysler has revealed a futuristic super-saloon as a preview of its upcoming electric car line-up. The Stellantis-owned American brand, which currently sells only the Pacifica MPV, will completely reinvent itself for the EV era, ushering in a bold new design language alongside a raft of next-generation technologies, including high-level autonomy and advanced connectivity. The new… Continue reading Chrysler previews electric cars with radical super-saloon
SV Rover: road-legal ‘hypertruck’ has supercharged V8 or EV power
American motorsport outfit Scarbo Vintage has revealed the SV Rover – an outlandish off-road weapon that it claims to be “the world’s first street-legal hypertruck”. Available with either a screaming supercharged V8 engine or a battery-electric powertrain, it’s the third car from the California-based firm, following the SV F1, a tribute to the 1967 Ferrari 312 Formula 1… Continue reading SV Rover: road-legal ‘hypertruck’ has supercharged V8 or EV power
The new car brands coming to the UK by 2026
HiPhi Nationality Chinese Parent company Human Horizons Coming to the UK (estimated) 2025 Chinese tech group Human Horizons launched HiPhi in 2017 as a luxury EV maker and released its HiPhi X SUV and HiPhi Z fastback in Europe in 2023. Both cars have enormous 19.9in infotainment touchscreens and will start at around £90,000 when they go on sale. HiPhi bills… Continue reading The new car brands coming to the UK by 2026
Industry facing ‘serious’ battles with poor image and record vacancies
A poor image, record vacancies and a growing skills gap are among the serious challenges facing the motor industry, according to a new report from the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). ‘Driving auto forwards’ identifies 10 issues as vehicle technology and the market evolve that, if not addressed, put the industry at risk of… Continue reading Industry facing ‘serious’ battles with poor image and record vacancies
New Audi RS5 estate set to rival AMG C63 with hybrid V6
Saloon and Avant estate bodystyles will be offered for the standard A5, with each unlikely to grow in size compared with the current A4. For reference, it stretches to 4772mm in length, 1847mm in width and 1435mm in height. Only the estate has been spotted testing so far in full-bore RS guise, and it is… Continue reading New Audi RS5 estate set to rival AMG C63 with hybrid V6
Chinese car makers Seres and Skywell confirmed for UK this year
Chinese car brands Seres and Skywell will be launched in the UK later this year by importer Innovation Automotive. Seres was founded in 2017 by Chongqing-based industrial group Sokon but is headquartered in California. Its 3 electric car will be brought to the UK in May, priced from £29,995 – £500 cheaper than the MG ZS EV. The Nissan Qashqai-sized SUV has a 161bhp motor on the… Continue reading Chinese car makers Seres and Skywell confirmed for UK this year
How JLR overcame financial gloom to boom again
JLR, formerly Jaguar Land Rover, is booming again after shaking off an extended period of financial gloom that started in China over five years ago and was compounded by the Covid crisis. The company reported its highest quarterly profit in six years for the three months ending December 31 and posted an nine-month profit margin… Continue reading How JLR overcame financial gloom to boom again
New Aston Martin Vantage brings 656bhp V8 and new interior
The aluminium chassis has been extensively revised as well, in the name of improved rigidity and engagement. The front cross-member has been moved rearwards to make the front suspension mounting points more rigid, for example, and the new engine bay brace is both lighter and stiffer. Aston also claims the rear end is up to… Continue reading New Aston Martin Vantage brings 656bhp V8 and new interior