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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 • If one car is sensible, the other can be indulgent, like an Elise

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Does Elon Musk love Trump more than the planet? • Ending state subsidies now, while Tesla enjoys a huge lead, would solidify its advantage

Why Audi’s genius five-cylinder engine can’t last

The bizarre return of Flavio Briatore

Lotus has built an electric McLaren F1 (of sorts)

How China killed the Tesla Model 2

New Jaguar cannot work. Can it?

New cars are boring? Bullsh*t

Polestar: you okay hun?

The year’s hottest racing game left us cold

Stroll built a team for Newey. One crucial element was missing

BMW design is bored of being provocative

Straight to the top • We head to the northern tip of Denmark in the new Renault 5, a car so good it seems certain to turn the EV world on its head

It’s tough at the top • Range-topper is asked to do a lot in slimmed-down 1-series line-up

Rapid progress • Electric grand tourer is now better in every way. And fast… very fast

Positively charged • Bentley’s finally hybridised its smallest, sportiest car, the Conti GT. And it’s superb

Opinion • PEAK GOLF + FUTURE FUELS + CAR’S GOLDEN AGE… IS NOW?

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Citroën has declined from the world’s most innovative car company yet it has rediscovered its relevance’

‘Consumers don’t want history lessons, not when the average TikTok video is only 35 seconds long’

“Have yourself a merry little magazine subscription”

The sums of its parts • Dacia has gone into the minutest details to find ways of trimming costs without cutting quality on its biggest ever car

MOULD BREAKERS • Bigster joins a lineage of innovative but affordable family favourites

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‘WE PUSH TO GET CLOSER TO THE ESSENCE OF MOTION’ • Thoughtful and poetic, Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is anything but aloof. Three years into the job he walks, talks and brainstorms psychophysics with CAR

FERRARI’S ARCHITECTS

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH • Didn’t Ferrari get the memo? Nobody should be building a new V12-engined super-GT in 2024. And yet… what if it’s really good?

To the power of 12 • How Ferrari made an icon of an engine

BACK ON GOODYEAR TYRES

THE CULT OF ’CRUISER • At last, Toyota gets it. The new Land Cruiser combines classic looks and new tech to stand proud alongside a custom restomod

TAMING THE BAJA

1 MORE TIME • The new W1 has a single, near-impossible, mission: be awesome in the otherworldly and innovative tradition of the F1 and P1

PEAK Mc LAREN

ACROPOLIS NOW • A tight championship run-in. Cars that look like the ones we drive. Great characters. Why isn’t the World Rally Championship breaking all records?

ANATOMY OF A RALLY1 CAR

Old style, new tech • Does the premium estate mix well with electric power?

Apres le deluge • Electric Skoda meets epic floods; no problem. Cycling fan meets hero; more gushing ensues.

Cursed by competence • Jeeps can be extraordinary vehicles, quirky and engaging and built for extreme conditions. This? Not so much.

Super size me • Sometimes brilliant but always bloated, the hot Countryman has confounded as much as it’s delighted.

The family cat • It’s an emotional moment as we bid goodbye to a car that represents so much that’s great about Jaguar’s...