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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 • Force the naggy outside world to leave you alone

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Ferrari radically reinvented, inside and out • The longest Ferrari ever made, the Luce looks nothing like the car anyone expected

The Brit teaching Chinese makers to be more JLR

Finally: a car to make small VWs great again

You want a new 2CV? It’s already been here 30 years

The good old days

It’s time for Nissan to swallow the brave pills

Need to give your EV an engine? Easy-ish

After 61 years, a plan for Alpina

The day Genesis first made sense

Seriously, a new Lotus Esprit?

The two incredible lives of Alex Zanardi

Odd one out • Audi’s glorious five-cylinder engine nears the end of the road in the Competition Limited edition of the RS3, a hot hatch that costs more than £90,000

Pick-up: 0 miles

Who needs cheerful? • A roomier, better-value member of the MG 4 family

To boldly go • Lucid voyages closer to the mass market with its spacious SUV

Mono track mind • Want to go racing? This could be the (expensive) answer

Effortless is more • Cayenne goes electric, becomes a Bugatti botherer in the process

The slipping crown • Is the S-Class still king of the limos? In 2026, we’re not so sure…

A £212,500 bargain • New Bentley is not the hottest Conti GT, but is plenty hot enough

Sunshine on a rainy day • Electric Toyotas keep getting better after an oddly misjudged start

Opinion • ADVANCED INTERIORS + SECRET LOTUS + NEW GOLDEN AGE

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‘Chinese car manufacturers are decisive. They don’t just anticipate the future, they make it’

‘The Lunar Rover inspired a generation, but the new designs won’t connect in quite the same way’

The gift of time!

AS GOOD AS IT GETS • Redolent of long, fast days on the road, the beautiful, brutal GT is the car at its mostromantic. The new Ferrari Amalfi battles theequally new Porsche 911 Turbo S and AstonVantage S in this world exclusive triple test

IT’S FINALLY CLICKED: 1000 MILES IN THE TURBO S

FIRE & ICE • The only thing to match the cold of the Swedish rally stages on which Joakim Rydholm cut his teeth is the heat of his passion for creating great cars. Meet Polestar’s hard-charging chassis guru

WHERE GREAT DRIVERS GROW ON TREES

MERCI ET AU REVOIR • After a decade spent making everything else look chubby and clumsy, the Alpine A110 is bowing out. Black armbands on

SPORT IS KEY TO THE ALPINE DNA

Where performance meets perspective • Every month CAR brings you definitive road tests, fearless verdicts and first drives – delivering expert insight on the cars that matter, before anyone else.

JUST THE v2.0 OF US • The old rivalry boils over once more. BMW and Benz go at it, this time with all-new, all-electric flagship SUVs

THEY’VE BOTH CRACKED THE CODE

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES • 50 years after Giugiaro designed the original on holiday in Sardinia, CAR takes the ultra-basic new version of the Fiat Grande Panda back to the beginning

EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES

My mobile man cave • It’s meant to be a car for people who love the great outdoors. Let’s take that to extremes.

Snow joke • Even the ready-for-anything Octa struggled in record snowfall.

The highway hero • A month in, our Aircross has already found its speciality.

CS gassed • Great news: BMW’s very special,...