Jaguar will race in Formula E until 2030 British brand will race until 2030, having committed to the electric single-seater championship's Gen4 rules Jaguar will remain in the Formula E World Championship until the end of 2030, saying that it will continue to accelerate its development of its new generation of electric road cars. The British brand has raced in the electric single-seater series since the 2016-17 season and will contests its 100th ePrix in Monaco this weekend. Jaguar has taken 13 victories in Formula E and is currently leading the manufacturers’ championship for the ..read more

MPV turns SUV. Does the new Peugeot 5008 offer the best of both worlds, or neither? When it was launched in 2010, the first-generation Peugeot 5008 was exactly what you’d expect of an MPV. It had an impressively flexible interior, it was an undemanding car to drive, and it adhered doggedly to a one-box appearance.That it also handled with the dexterity of a smaller car, and undercut the Ford S-Max on price helped seal it a four-star rating from us; but it never amounted to anything more than a determinedly functional product.Seven years later. though, the 5008’s positioning changed critically ..read more

The BTCC's 2024 season will be its 67th As this year's tin-top championship begins, boss Alan Gow talks new developments on- and off-track Alan Gow, boss of the hugely successful Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship for all but three of the past 34 seasons, is the personification of a decisive leader. He spends most of his time making clear, quick decisions aimed at improving what is widely acknowledged to be the world’s best car competition of its kind. For decades, his authority has been every bit as great as Bernie Ecclestone’s was in his Formula 1 heyday. Not that there are many oth ..read more

Ducktail spoiler suggests the new car may have more sporting character than the Batur Bacalar and Batur successor lands next month as a 16-off swansong for Crewe's 12-cylinder engine Bentley will unveil the most powerful car in its 105-year history on Tuesday, 7 May. It will be the third model from the brand’s reinvigorated Mulliner coachbuilding division, after the Bacaclar and Batur. Only 16 examples will be built. Bentley said the new car will receive its “most potent” W12 engine to date, pushing it past the 740bhp and 738lb ft outputs of its outing in the Batur. The marque added tha ..read more

This year's event showed how quickly some Chinese firms are surpassing some of the West's oldest names The cost, the technology and now the styling of the cars and branding of the companies: the latter stages in the development of the Chinese industry was on full show at the Beijing motor show, which ran this week for the first time since 2018. When the Chinese car makers cracked brands and branding, these were always going to be the things that could really take them global and into the mainstream, rather than simply known for cost. The 2024 Beijing show could turn out t ..read more

The new Land Cruiser's chassis is 50% more rigid than its predecessor, said Toyota New version of Toyota's venerable 4x4 off-roader receives design inspired by the classic FJ60 The new Toyota Land Cruiser has been priced from £74,995 in the UK, with the rejuvenated off-roader due on sale in July before deliveries start in September this year. Arriving nearly 14 years after the launch of the previous Land Cruiser, the 4x4 has been drastically overhauled to steal sales from the Land Rover Defender and Jeep Wrangler, both of which it outprices by around £10,000.  Two specificatio ..read more

The facelifted EQS saloon was the first model to receive a traditional front grille Brand wants its electric and combustion cars to be more obviously related as people are now 'used to electric cars' Mercedes-Benz will introduce more classic design cues for the next generation of its EQ range, bringing its electric cars and combustion cars more in line. This will mean model lines that offer both electric and combustion powertrains, such as the Mercedes-Benz EQE and Mercedes-Benz E-Class, “joining together again”, Robert Lesnik, the brand’s head of exterior design has told Autocar. This ..read more

The Mix is based on the same SEA platform as the Smart #1, #3, #5 and Volvo EX30 Ex-Bentley boss Stefan Sielaff has reinvented the MPV, but it's not coming to the UK Geely electric brand electric Zeekr has reimagined the family MPV in a space-liberating redesign that harks back to the original Renault Espace in how it radically rethinks the passenger space. The Zeekr Mix stretches its wheelbase, loses the central B-pillar and adds twin sliding doors that open like those on a train to create a 1.5-metre access to the cabin, a gap that Zeekr claims is “the widest in the history of automot ..read more

Cheap-as-chips supermini makes way for all-new hybrid aimed at bereft Ford Fiesta fans More than 4000 Brits bought a new MG 3 last year. That’s admirable, considering that this Anglo-Chinese hatchback was launched over a decade ago and, with its somewhat crude dynamics and especially its rough petrol engine, signalled that fact pretty clearly – although MG executives admit that this car, one of the very cheapest on the UK market, was aimed at people who just wanted something new with a warranty – and better yet a seven-year one.The second-generation 3, just arrived, is all-new and an entirely ..read more

Smart owners Geely and Mercedes are looking for other firms to collaborate with Tiny city car remains part of the "ID of the brand" despite shift to crossovers and SUVs Smart has begun design work on a new version of the Fortwo city car – with design chief Gorden Wagener saying it is "crucial" to the brand's image. During that interview with Wagener, the brand confirmed that development of a new Fortwo has begun under the codename Project Two and indicated that the #2 name had been reserved for the production car. “It is a crucial part of the brand, for the ID of the brand,” s ..read more