Autocar

Autocar is the car nut’s weekly fix, delivering you a unique mix of the latest news, opinion, features, first drives of new cars and in-depth road tests – all complemented by the best photography in the business. No other magazine covers the subject you love with such enthusiasm, insight and quality every week of the year. Autocar stands for the highest quality in car journalism – and is rewarded with access to the best new cars and the biggest news stories before any of the opposition which we share with you, our readers, every week.

ARTURA IS JUST WHAT McLAREN HAS NEEDED

205mph Artura PHEV starts new chapter for McLaren • All-new £185k plug-in hybrid supercar launches Woking firm’s era of electrification

New 911 GT3 finally unleashed • Motorsport-fettled hardcore Porsche gets 503bhp atmo flat six and manual ’box

Lotus imagines 2030 Le Mans car • E-R9 concept has shape-shifting body, four electric motors and swappable battery

EV charging firms need support • Roll-out can’t just be left to private sector, says head of Infrastructure Commission

CHAMPION ELECT: HOW PIRELLI TAILORED ITS NEW TYRE TO EVs

Bus makers look to the future • Era of electrification beckons as UK industry seeks to bounce back from torrid 2020

Jim Holder • INSIDE INFORMATION

Steve Cropley • MY WEEK IN CARS

RUF CTR ANNIVERSARY • It may look like yet another restomodded Porsche 911, but this homage to a 1980s legend is actually Ruf’s first bespoke creation

XPENG P7 • Chinese company will bring its sleek and slick Tesla Model 3 rival to Europe this year

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTD • Diesel may be in crisis, but Wolfsburg’s oil-burning hot hatch remains unperturbed

KIA RIO • Supermini gets new engine with, in pricier form, economy-minded accoutrements

Skoda Octavia • Skoda reprises an understated everyday hero, but is TDI power still of any interest?

Range at a glance

Weights and measures

Multimedia system

Track notes

Data log

Enduring fast diesel is better at a simmer than a rolling boil

ROAD TEST RIVALS • Verdicts on every new car, p74

OPTIONS TRADING • Porsche’s price list offers a wide range of choices that can make, if not break, a great 911. Richard Lane goes in search of the sweet spot

THREE MORE QUICK CARS WHOSE OPTIONS MATTER

THE OPTIONS

YOU’RE BLOCKING MY DRIVEWAY… • …and I couldn’t be happier. John Evans meets a man enabling aspiring EV drivers to rent their neighbours’ home chargers

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION • The PSA Group has merged with FCA while Renault is reinventing itself, so what does the future hold for France? By James Attwood

THE STELLANTIS BRAND PORTFOLIO

WHAT I S RENAULT’S N EW MOBILIZE ARM?

THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS • The Peugeot 205 GTi and first Volkswagen Golf GTI have been written into car folklore, so why hasn’t their Renault 5 GT Turbo contemporary? Andrew Frankel investigates

HIGH F IVES: A SHORT H ISTORY

COULD THERE BE A NEW 5 TURBO?

BRIGHTEN WITH STARS • That’s the meaning of ‘Stellantis’, and FCA and PSA each ignited quite a few. Richard Bremner points to the brightest

LYNN LOOKS FOR THAT SPARK • How Mahindra has given British driver new hope in Formula E

Hamilton signs Mercedes deal

Low-cost racing in demand • UK-based City Car Cup is anticipating full grids for its second season

Super day in Brum • 9 September 1987

Out of the limelight – and happier than ever • Andrew Jordan has stepped away from the BTCC to concentrate on his family business and enjoy a spot of historic club racing. Paul Lawrence finds out why

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