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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

Insider • After resurrecting its A110 icon, the next step is something very different: an electric hot hatch.

‘Isn’t this what Renault Sport was for?’

THE A290’S DNA • Alpine’s future hatch has some strong genes

LAMBO’S ALL-NEW MODEL IS A COUPE SUV • A new ‘fourth model line’ will build on the sales success of the Urus, and it’ll be purely electric.

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT FOR CHINA • The design, the software, the engineering – it’s all come into alignment for the increasingly confident Chinese car industry

My career in three sketches • DANIELE CALONACI HEAD OF JEEP DESIGN, EUROPE

OLD DOGS AND NEW TRICKS • Follow the trends, or keep it classic? It’s two votes apiece here.

‘AFFORDABLE? WE MAKE IT SEXY’ • Citroën’s focus on value doesn’t mean it has to be boring, insists its design chief.

Six questions only we would ask

GOING GREEN • Fancy a watch in an alternative hue? They’re all the Hulk-like rage these days.

JAGUAR’S LAST ROLL OF THE DICE • JLR is reinventing Jaguar as an all-electric luxury car maker, shaped by Gerry McGovern.

But will it work?

FIXING THE ID’S BROKEN IDENTITY • The ID. 7 has the tech every ID car should have had from the start. Curtis Moldrich explains what’s changed

VIRTUAL RACING IN GRAN TURISMO 7 • GT7 on the PS5 is one of the most realistic racing sims ever. Can VR make it even better?

WIRELESS CHARGING • The easier way to charge an EV. Shame it’s not fast enough yet. 

Poseidon’s Porsche • Maserati, currently on its 347th comeback, has a new SUV, the Grecale. We know it’s good. But is it Porsche Macan good?

A fine Model Y rival • Pity the latest Merc EV costs more than twice as much as the Tesla

EV of the year, 1959 • Mini recaptures the original spirit with the all-electric Cooper SE

Escape velocity • Gaydon’s old-school GT-turned-supercar reaches a giddy climax

Chip it on the green • New PHEV brings out the best in the sensible, sophisticated SUV

Letter of the month

Colophon

‘Early Chinese cars were like the early efforts from Japanese and Korean makers: bad. No more’

‘Self-driving cars keep getting stuck in dead-end streets or randomly stopping’

THE NEXT TWO 911S • This is it: everything we know of the 911’s next decade – two generations, some big numbers and a very hot hybrid, all before the proposed 2032 switch to electric…

ʻDRIVE TO SURVIVE? NEVER SEEN ITʼ

Design power list 2023 • This is it – CAR’s definitive 2023 countdown of the world’s most influential car designers

STRANGER THINGS • What could be weirder than the upside-down world of Netflix hit Stranger Things? How about seeing a Peugeot return to US streets?

A little Ferrari magic... ...will make for better McLarens • Former Ferrari man Michael Leiters is keen to bring a little Maranello magic to Woking – starting with the new 750S

Lambo off the leash • Our Huracan is so good at the day-to-day stuff, we had to check it’s not at the expense of its day job.

Blue is good for you • When the C5 X hybrid’s dials glow blue, it’s running electric. How will it fare on a Wiltshire run?

Through the looking glass • Time to enter a magical futuristic kingdom ruled by some very strange gods.

That sinking feeling • But there’s an upside.

Let’s play operation • iDrive therefore I am.

A real fast Ford • Even with no...