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TOYOTA’S HYPERCAR IS BORN PURELY OF PASSION

Toyota crowns GR line-up with 1000bhp hypercar • All-new road-going GR Super Sport will arrive in 2022 with a race-bred hybrid set-up

KEY LE MANS HYPERCAR RIVALS

Emira is Lotus’s ICE swansong • Marque’s first new car since 2009 is Porsche 911 rival with turbo four and blown V6

Williams and Italdesign off er firms ‘turn-key’ EV package

New HR-V coming to UK as 129bhp hybrid

CONFIDENTIAL

Kona heats up with 276bhp N • Sporting version of Hyundai SUV arrives with aggressive look, stiffer shell and LSD

Special 812 gets Ferrari’s most potent V12

Polo copies big brother with fresh look and new tech

Richard Parry-Jones • 1951-2021 British engineer famously saved Ford’s image with sparkling driving dynamics

Industry’s tributes

Nio plans 2021 Europe launch • Europe boss of innovative Chinese EV brand discusses strategy in exclusive interview

Tokyo motor show cancelled

Swiss Evija rival to use ‘disruptor’ tech

WILL HYUNDAI’S N DCT CONVERT THE DIEHARD MANUAL SHIFTERS?

Will truck market pick up again? • Sector has experienced sales downturn and brand exodus after years of expansion

UK BEST-SELLING TRUCKS IN 2020

Jim Holder • INSIDE INFORMATION

Steve Cropley • MY WEEK IN CARS

LOTUS EVIJA • Can a £2m-plus electric hypercar with around 2000bhp still feel like a Lotus? An early drive in a prototype proves very revealing

ITS DAMPERS USE FORMULA 1 THINKING

HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 • Is this electric concept car made real as fantastic to drive as it is to look at? We get our first indication from a top-spec prototype

CHARGING REVERSAL

PORSCHE TAYCAN CROSS TURISMO • Plush sporting electric estate gets off-road makeover. One ingredient too many?

NISSAN ROGUE • Latest version of North America’s X-Trail shows Europeans what to expect next year

BMW 530d xDRIVE TOURING • Executive estate, here in punchy diesel form with four-wheel drive, sharpens its act

Dacia Sandero • It might be the biggest bargain on the new car market, but is it a car worth having?

Cut-price crossover is compromised in surprisingly few areas

ROAD TEST RIVALS • Verdicts on every new car, p82

VERY GOOD, SIR • But is the car of choice for chauffeur-driven owners still the best in the world? Matt Saunders aims to find out by pitting the all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class against an uber-luxury rival that is six cylinders and £60,000 to the good, Bentley’s Flying Spur

GET FLASH WITH YOUR CASH • If you don’t have £170,000 in change rattling around your pocket but dream of piloting a Flying Spur or being ferried about in a luxo-barge, you can do so at a fraction of the price on the used market. Joe Holding pores through the classifieds so you don’t have to

‘We wanted to put Lotus back on the map’ • After a long period in the doldrums, Lotus is being revitalised with an all-new line-up spearheaded by the 2000bhp Evija hypercar. Mike Duff meets the man presiding over Hethel’s dramatic transformation

Back to where it all began • The very first rechargeable EV was made by Gustave Trouvé all the way back in 1881. Jeremy Hart has a...