BMW iX3: Everything you need to know BMW calls the new iX3’s fresh styling theme Neue Klasse – "new class" to English speakers – paying homage to the brand’s reimagination of the same name back in the 1960s. That’s about the only aspect of this electric SUV that’s retrospective because everything...

The ‘Old Man’, Enzo Ferrari himself, always said that his company’s V12 engine defined the brand. He also said that when you buy one of his cars you pay for the engine and get the rest for free. On both counts, that’s never more so than here with the Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider. Discounting the outrageous...

It helps the BMW M5's cause that it's still powered by a V8 engine. BMW hasn't gone a similar route to the Mercedes-AMG C63 which saw its V8 swapped for a plug-in hybridised inline four-cylinder. Shudders. Instead, here you'll find a 4.4-litre twin-turbo unit behind its angular snout, matching the...

We should have been celebrating, really. A few years ago, the idea of a brand-new M5 Touring would have seemed incredibly far-fetched. We haven't had one since the wonderful (but temperamental) V10-powered E61-generation M5 Touring, which is the only one ever built in right-hand drive. The older E34...

Like many car companies with chequered histories, Aston Martin is a company that's been reborn over and over again — and frequently so. It wasn't that long ago that we were introduced to the  Aston Martin DB11 which was the first in what was dubbed the firm's 'second century plan'. And yet little over...

With the all-round excellence of the latest generation Honda Civic , hopes were high that the Type R version would build on that to create another gem in a long line of outstanding hot hatches from the Japanese manufacturer. Although there are fewer rivals than the Honda Civic Type R’s faced in its...