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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 • Murray’s love of great work by others is infectious

Agenda • This is the culminating moment of perhaps the most brutally divisive automotive rebranding exercise since cars began

Florence and the machine: Jag’s new era is go

McLaren moves beyond Ron

Playing to their strengths

Looks electric, isn’t: meet the new 3-series

No ifs, no buts: Porsche will build a petrol supercar

What took you so long, Smart?

History, ambition, F1: Alpine’s plan to become the French Ferrari

Four things Lamborghini won’t do

‘It’s a homage to great design’

Reaching the summit • Has Skoda stretched itself too far with its most expensive and largest car? We take the seven-seat electric Peaq to its homeland in search of answers

Retro? Just say no! • Hyundai proves you don’t have to look back to build a well-designed, high-quality and long-range EV

Moderate to good • If a real hot hatch is a summer heatwave, this is more autumnal

Sum of its parts • More money for a bit less weight and a bit more power. Worth it?

An arm and a leg • We hadn’t realised how much we missed manual gearshifts in a Ferrari until we drove the 12Cilindri Manuale

Opinion • GENIUS AWARDS + SMALL BUT SPECIAL + TRUST TOYOTA

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‘When every car is an import, politics, patriotism and protectionism become irrelevant’

Happiness delivered again & again

‘I find myself in the purest expression of the German motorway experience: an autobahn train’

THE HIGHEST HEIGHTS • BMW’s award-winning new electric 3-series, the i3, meets one of the all-time greats in the Alps

Endless adventures with CAR • CAR brings you first drives, group tests and fearless opinion on the newest cars; plus definitive buying advice, brilliant photography and insider access to the stories shaping the motoring world.

ELECTRIC POWER? YES PLEASE! • The slow, cheap and weird original 2CV appealed to farmers, peaceniks and sandal-wearing teachers. What exactly is the new electric 2CV? And who will buy it?

WAKE UP CALL • Journeying to Europe’s most inaccessible meet-up in one of Europe’s most versatile performance cars

KART AND SOUL • Getting into karting is terrifying, exhilarating and a great bonding experience for father and son. Prepare to write-off your weekends

‘NOW I EAT, SLEEP AND BREATHE KARTING’

FAST HORSES • Ferrari’s V12 12Cilindri meets one of the greats from the back catalogue, our European editor and his son Max’s recently acquired 599 GTB

Highly rated • Our Giulia tackles Shelsley Walsh – the storied hillclimb that’s one of the world’s purest tests of speed.

Breeding contentment • Happiness is nothing more complicated than a Panda.

Coupes or crossovers? • We’re told the A390 and Polestar 4 are crossovers that drive like coupes. We put them head to head.

Work, rest and play • There’s no doubting the Ranger’s credentials as a workhorse. But how good is it as a car?

Devil’s in the details • It’s not obvious at a glance, but this is Cupra’s fastest, sportiest and priciest car yet.

GBU • The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: The Top 5s