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IT’S SURPRISING WHERE A LEGO KIT CAN TAKE YOU

New RS4 gets PHEV boost for V6 and name change • Called RS5, it will use plug-in hybrid tech to take the fight to Merc-AMG’s 671bhp C63

Audi RS6 GT special created from raceinspired concept • Limited-run £180k estate uses carbonfibre and revised aero to deliver on GTO concept’s promise

Taycan better ‘in every discipline’ • Wide-ranging gains give new Porsche EV up to 939bhp and 422 miles per charge

New 5 Series Touring big on EVs • BMW’s exec estate will be sold in the UK initially with two EV options and a PHEV

Puma revamp adds tech, kills off 197bhp ST

NCAP explains big fall in safety tests • Car makers ducked last year’s introduction of challenging new tests, claims agency

SKIRTS, CURTAINS, FLAPS AND TRAPS

Lotus: sports cars still ‘essential’ • Firm’s credibility will hang on dynamic character of 2027’s Elise-spirited Type 135 EV

Hyundai chases Spring in winter

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Mini unwraps £22k petrol hatch • Fourth-generation three-door marries proven mechanicals and slick new EV design

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MY WEEK IN CARS

RACING LINES

SUBARU CROSSTREK • Smallest Subaru enters third era with updates to 4x4 chassis and mild-hybrid engine

PORSCHE CAYENNE E-HYBRID COUPE • Does a swoopier look and electrified power compromise or complete this big SUV?

BMW X6 • Enhanced powertrains and next-generation interior tech for new-look SUV-coupé

RANGE ROVER SPORT P400 • Altered interior and new powertrains for SUV after little more than a year on sale

AUDI Q8 • Flagship combustion SUV gets a lighter than light facelift that’s focused on… lights

AUDI SQ8 • Similar updates for the go-faster version, with its twin-turbocharged petrol V8

CHILD’S PLAY • Nicolas Fremau built a Lego model with his kids one Christmas. Then he and his Renault colleagues scaled it up into the radical E-Tech Hybrid system. Steve Cropley hears the story

A NEW PILSNER… …WITH ADD ED HOPS • There’s now an 800lb ft value-led Czech electric off-roader on sale in the UK – and it’s not a Skoda. Kris Culmer gets a taste

HIRE-FALUTIN • Not all hire cars are created equal. John Evans samples a higher class of rental

THE LOVED BUG • Got a neglected classic clogging up your garage? Enjoy it while you still can, says Felix Page, who has done just that

Lexus LM • Can this new ultra-luxury MPV redefine limousine norms for passenger comfort?

Data log

VERDICT • A fascinating luxury-market curio, but no threat to the old-school limo

JAGUAR F-TYPE • They don’t make ’em like this any more – or soon won’t. Are we sorry to see it go?

CITROEN E-C4 X • Here’s an EV that treads its own path – and we’re going to see where it leads us

TOYOTA COROLLA • The spec of our Commercial could have been tailor-made for its new custodian

McLAREN ARTURA • Bicester show car has come under fire, verbally and physically

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