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Next year’s Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship will retain the same 10 events next year but it will undergo a minor reshuffle because of football’s FIFA World Cup. The 2026 calendar for Britain’s leading motorsport championship has been revealed less than a week after the season-opening event for the 2025 season, held at Donington Park. […]
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As the old saying goes, ‘if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it’ and you get the feeling that with this latest update Land Rover’s baby Discovery has taken a step backwards when it comes to interior usability. Previously, you had a central touchscreen and a cluster of rotary knobs and buttons for the climate controls,
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It is the apogee of long-range personal transit, yet extinction beckons because diesel has become so unfashionable. While such cars remain, our duty is to revel in them. Having fluked the perfect wheels, I did just that on this Alpine road trip. Fluked? Once we had sorted travel dates, I opened the road test diary. It
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When Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo visited Chery earlier this year, he was shown the full line-up of cars from its multiple brands. Like most large Chinese car companies, Chery’s brands attack nearly all sectors, from practical family SUVs to slippery electric premium saloons. But the car the Italian executive walked up to first was the
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On the move, both the Turbo’s hybrid powertrain and its clever suspension have enormous potential to surprise and impress, and in a variety of different dimensions. The system is the same in both the Turbo and the Turbo S; it’s simply that the V8 engine can work so much harder in the faster version, to
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The Leapmotor C10 has been updated in China, gaining more range, extra power and an upgraded infotainment system. Chief among the updates is a switch from 400V electricals to a more powerful 800V system. Leapmotor has yet to confirm specifics, but this should bring a significant increase in the car’s maximum charging speed – currently
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Pedestrians hit by SUVs and pick-ups are significantly more likely to be killed than those hit by lower-riding hatchbacks and saloons, according to a new study. Conducted by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the review compared data from collisions involving SUVs and ‘light trucks’ (pick-ups and small vans)
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Total Energies Lubrifiants, the lubricants arm of French energy giant Total, has fitted a Renault Megane E-Tech with an immersion-cooled battery that uses a new fluid called Cell Shield – and is claimed to have halved the EV’s charging times and extended its range by 6%. Immersion cooling is a conveniently obvious term: reducing the temperature
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It’s the raked windscreen that sets an unexpectedly exciting tone when you slide aboard the Prius. The place has a real cockpit feel, with a likeable ensconcement factor, although forward visibility is still good, because of the large quarterlights. Glass is in abundance for what is still not a particularly wide car, and it gives
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The event included a number of speakers, including talks and interviews from: Sarah Windrum, head of cluster development at Horiba MIRA; Volvo Car UK managing director Nicole Melillo Shaw; Diane Miller, director of the Parts Distribution Centre at Ellesmere Port for Stellantis; Lorraine Bishton, managing director of Subaru UK; and Renee Knott, head of project
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