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Welcome • ‘For a while fast car development went where Japan chose’

Star contributors

JAPAN’S GREAT ELECTRIC U-TURN • For years Mazda and Toyota/Lexus refused to give up their engines. But at the Tokyo show both finally made the jump to electric power – and in some style.

EV VETERAN NISSAN’S ARIYA CONCEPT

X8M imminent and all-electric Phantom proposed as BMW faces the future

2022 Range Rover: the icon plugs in • Near-silent, better off-road, more stylish and more luxurious than ever, the next-gen Rangie is with us in 2022.

Massimo Frascella Creative director

Which future do you fancy? • Where does the car go from here? Hydrogen? Doorless? Four home-grown ideas from the Tokyo motor show

Volvo’s silent revolution begins • Boss Håkan Samuelsson admits Volvo was late to EV. But now watch him clean up. By Gavin Green

How does a top F1 car feel? • This season Alex Albon has driven both the midfield Toro Rosso and front-running Red Bull. How do they compare?

SO NEAR… YET SO FAR

‘A Cupra is fast, cool, electric’ • The Seat spin-off’s British boss couples infectious enthusiasm with a solid plan.

Six questions only we would ask

Breaking the internet, BMW-style • 2-series gains a frumpy four-door

Three cheers • Hours, minutes, seconds. How much more complicated does a watch face need to be?

Audi’s EV enigma decoded • Ingolstadt’s multi-platform electric plans are simpler than they first appear, as Jake Groves explains

A SPOTTER’S GUIDE

Keeping the ‘argh’ in GT-R • Nissan’s latest upgrades to its aged high-performance anomaly keep the arthritis at bay.

2020’S GT-R THE UPGRADES

Porsche’s EV brakes are shockingly good • Anyone can throw a lot of tech at an electric car. It takes a special kind of genius to make it feel so natural to drive.

RECUPERATION CAM HOW IT WORKS

ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE AMR Sturm und Drang • More extreme, harder work and more visceral than the stock, auto-only Vantage, the AMR – with its manual ’box – promises to hit higher emotional highs. Can it deliver?

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Spreading the love • The T-Roc is a neat crossover. The Golf R is a great hot hatch. Merge their best bits into a new car and you get this

Roll over • Firmer, sharper, harder – Alpine turns the A110 up to 110 per cent

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Divorcees ahoy! • It’s blingier than ever, but BMW’s latest SUV-coupe actually drives really well

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Reverse engineering • It doesn’t just look worse, it is worse in too many key areas

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Under the radar • The new straight-six-powered M340i is a genuine M car, but aiming much lower than the next M3

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For your next ’tric • Is there an electric car that’s easier to drive and live with than the latest Renault Zoe?

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Super Gran • Don’t be tempted by the heavy V8 – this straight-six is a star of the 8-series line-up

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Sparks won’t fly • DS adds electricity to the list of dull powertrains inside its stylish but uninspiring entry-level crossover

BMW X5 45E PHEV

RENAULT CAPTUR

The rest is silence…

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