Category: Car review

The line-up hasn’t changed: you can have a Standard Range model with a 154bhp motor and 48.4kWh battery, or a Long Range model with 214bhp and 65.4kWh battery. We’ve driven the entry-level model, with an estimated range of 234 miles – behind rivals such as the Peugeot e-2008 (250 miles), but ahead of the entry-level […]

The ZR-V – first UK deliveries of which begin in September – also shares much of its technical make-up with the Civic. In Europe, Honda is offering it exclusively with the same hybrid powertrain. The naturally aspirated 2.0-litre four-cylinder Atkinson-cycle petrol engine produces 141bhp, but it mainly serves to spin a generator and either power […]

But what about Drift mode, which throws as much of the engine’s torque to the rear outside wheel as possible? Despite the marketing campaigns, the way this – and all of the more aggressive settings for the AMG Dynamics chassis electronics – mostly manifests is not with armfuls of opposite lock but with an awesome […]

In a way, that shouldn’t surprise: no Lotus ever weighed two and a half tonnes. But still, if you come expecting family DNA, by which I mean overtly communicative steering, tremendous agility and poise and yet a mysteriously pliant ride, you won’t find it. Engineers from the UK have gone to visit the Eletre in […]

The 2.0-litre turbo four hasn’t had any significant enhancements – nor, we note, does it feature the same performance-boosting mild-hybrid tech that Maserati has adopted for the related Grecale. The 276bhp it makes is unlikely to pique the interest of too many SUV regulars with established sporting appetites. Even so, the performance it churns out […]

Tesla’s EV-drivetrain engineering might is undeniably formidable. Here’s a big saloon that hits 62mph in 2.5sec (not quite the 2.1sec Tesla claims) and yet in normal driving returns 3.3mpkWh – efficiency many EV makers can only dream of. That results in a 373-mile range, and if you want to go even farther, a 10-80% charge […]

Like the most powerful diesel, the petrol GLC 300 offers 254bhp but is slightly quicker, officially sprinting from 0-62mph in 6.3sec. But it doesn’t feel as sprightly as the numbers suggest and that’s largely due to the standard-fit nine-speed automatic gearbox. In fact, it hesitates so much off the line that our test car even […]

You expect audible drama when you hit the starter button of an 831bhp Mercedes-AMG – but initially that’s not what you get from this one. A synthesised electric pulse signals the readiness of the GT’s hybrid powertrain, and then, in its default operating mode, the car moves off quietly under electric power, and only rouses […]

This is a five-metre, all-electric, four-door shooting brake GT with 663bhp, an electric range that’s likely to be WLTP certified at nearly 350 miles, and an aesthetic that’s part Japanese manga performance aggression, part BMW i-brand tribute act and part love song to the digital technology that Human Horizons considers – rightly or wrongly – the […]

These screens weren’t fully operational in our test car, which was in Chinese-market specification and so didn’t have a European data connection. But they should offer quite the digital overload once they do work. The usability of the central infotainment console is complex, integrating the majority of secondary systems and adjustment functions just as a […]