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Autocar UK Magazine - August 13, 2025

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In this issue

£100 A WEEK HEROES

SCOOP: HYUNDAI’S NEW SUPERMINI

RENAULT’S FASTEST CAR... SORT OF

ROAD TEST: VW’S HOT ELECTRIC ESTATE

BRILLIANT McLAREN FOR M2 MONEY

TWINGO PRIMED FOR SUB£17K UK LAUNCH NEXT YEAR

Renault's new electric city car will go toe to toe with the Volkswagen ID 1

4 mins

'CRUCIAL' NEW HYUNDAIS TO LEAD EUROPEAN PUSH

New Ioniq 2 and fifth-gen Tucson aim to harvest buyers from key rivals

4 mins

ONE-OFF BROUILLARD IS VERY LAST W16 BUGATTI

And first 'hyper-exclusive' car from Solitaire coachbuilding division

3 mins

TATA MOTORS CHOOSES ITS FINANCE CHIEF TO LEAD JLR

PB Balaji will become CEO when Adrian Mardell retires in November

4 mins

NEW 7 BREAKS COVER AS DS FIGHTS FALLING SALES

French premium brand readies new electric SUV to fight iX3 and GLC

2 mins

UNCERTAINTY CLOUDS FINANCE COMPENSATION CLAIM SCHEME

Millions are still due redress after court ruling but details remain unclear

5 mins

POLESTAR 3 SETS 581-MILE EV RANGE RECORD FOR SUVS

Record was broken on public roads in England and equates to 5.1mpkWh

3 mins

Steve Croplev

It creeps up on you, the Vintage Sports Car Club’s two-day meeting at Prescott hillclimb near Cheltenham, because if you're like me, you've already worked your way through six weeks of car festivals with Goodwood in the middle.

2 mins

Matt Prior

If you can't take another Porsche 911 restomod, can I present you this instead? It's a Porsche 912 restomod. I grant you that's not 911 unadjacent.

3 mins

Damien Smith

And breathe. Formula 1’s hard-travelled teams and drivers take a well-earned break this month before the season resumes at the Dutch Grand Prix on 31 August, the start of a 10-race run to Abu Dhabi on 7 December. It has been utterly absorbing so far, thanks to the all-McLaren battle for the championship between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris - two beautifully matched but entirely contrasting racing drivers revelling in squeezing every drop from the best car on the grid.

8 mins

ASTON MARTIN VALHALLA

V8, three electric motors and 1064bhp yet 'friendly' Aston dynamics too: can it really deliver all that?

5 mins

DACIA BIGSTER MILD HYBRID 140

Value brand's upscaled SUV receives manual petrol powertrain option

3 mins

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2.0 TSI

Punchy yet frugal petrol four-pot provides a potential PHEV alternative

2 mins

HYUNDAI INSTER CROSS

Quirky 3.8m-long EV half-heartedly masquerades as an off-roader

3 mins

PORSCHE MACAN ELECTRIC

Does the basic model sell you short or is it actually this EV's sweet spot?

8 mins

Testing, testing

Cars hijack our obsessive impulses in ways that range from the amusing to the fulfilling to the potentially unhealthy.

3 mins

The art of the deal

A PCP can be the best way to get a new car on the drive, but what's available for a budget of just £100 per week? JOHN EVANS shops around for a deal

8 mins

The secret of their success

Over the past five years, MG has enjoyed unprecedented UK sales growth in an ailing market. STEVE CROPLEY asks how they did it

4 mins

DACIA DUSTER

This great-value SUV is an endearing all-rounder. We're sorry to see it go

3 mins

RANGE ROVER EVOQUE

A dated powertrain is taking some of the shine off our premium SUV

2 mins

THE WOKING WONDER THAT PUNCHES ABOVE ITS WEIGHT

McLaren's sub-supercar 570 is far more than the sum of its parts

2 mins

Should drivers be allowed to lock parked cars?

You may have had to read the question above twice just to confirm that you understood it correctly, so ludicrously self-evident does the answer seem. But there was a time when this was a perfectly legitimate thing for Autocar to be asking.

3 mins

Why I love...KNOCKHILL

Amid a sea of better-appreciated and well-appointed UK race tracks, Knockhill has a knack for holding its own. It is Scotland's only FIA-approved track and is notorious for its narrow, complicated and steeply undulating twists and turns – and this coming weekend, it will host the seventh round of this season's BTCC. I can't wait.

2 mins

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Autocar UK Magazine Description:

Publisher: haymarket-consumer-media

Category: Automotive

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

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