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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 • ‘Nostalgia is a shelter from the current turbulence’

Agenda • Most of the great racing drivers have a career-defining wet win on their CV

Are today’s F1 drivers too soft to race in the rain?

Will the real Chinese Tesla please stand up? • If BYD has had rivalry with Tesla reluctantly thrust upon it, Xpeng enthusiastically gobbled up Tesla’s Silicon Valley playbook

BMW? Take the easy option? Never!

How to make VW great again? Go on the attack

The man who made CAR a game-changer

Delusions of grandeur

The pneu wave of smart tyre is here

Caddy’s back: the rise, fall and rise of Cadillac • A Vauxhall Cavalier with delusions of grandeur, the Cimarron delivered a body blow to Cadillac from which it still has not recovered

The quad-turbo V12 that shouldn’t exist is here

Bentley’s search for imperfection • It can’t be easy to nail the details of an all-new powertrain and an all-new class of car when wealthy customers are eschewing EVs

Rising to the top • Not so long ago, a £52,000 MG would have seemed ludicrous. So let’s find out how the ambitious new IM6 compares to the class-leading Skoda Enyaq

Working party • Useful side of Land Cruiser’s personality comes to the fore

Athletic, funloving, GSOH • And for Aston Martin’s next trick? Nailing its late, very ambitious mid-engined hybrid hypercar

Copy, enlarge, paste • Newcomer aims to build on the MG 4’s success but in SUV form

May the ’force be with you • Faster on track. Simple to say. Hard to do. Manthey pulls it off with some downforce-focused GT3 RS upgrades

Opinion • FRUGAL FORDS + VANISHING AUDIS + WEIRD CITROËNS

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‘Big grilles have long played a part in car design, but they do nothing for aerodynamics or safety’

‘He took it to bits, did nothing for 10 years and then sold it, probably the fate of most classics’

BRINGING THE HEAT • Cleaner, yes. Quieter, sure. But 2026’s new electric Cayenne is also way spicier and more capable. Here’s your six-point briefing on the most powerful production Porsche yet

ENJOY £5 OFF CAR MAGAZINE* • CAR puts you in the driving seat, on the grid and in the boardroom with the best reviews, analysis and interviews

PARADISE CALLED. IT WANTS ITS TRACKDAY BACK

AND IN THE RED CORNER, FERRARI’S VERSION

‘THE CLOSEST RIVIAN CAME TO NOT HAPPENING? OH, THE FIRST 10 YEARS’

R2: THE VOLUME - SELLING SECOND ALBUM

R3: THE GROUP B-INSPIRED EV

CUTE AND CLEVER: DRIVING RIVIAN’S EDV

ALTER EGO • The BMW M3 CS Touring is a new, wilder version of the brilliant M3 Competition. Can it possibly be better?

VIVE LA ÉVOLUTION • The new electric 4 aims to capture the essence of the original and a long line of other cute, clever small Renaults. We drive the greats – and meet their owners

KEEP IT SIMPLE AND CHIC • There’s not much to it, really. But that – and the flair with which it was executed – is the magic of the original 4

We’re gonna live forever • The Civic Type R is on borrowed time. But there’s hope. Its bike equivalent, the CBR600RR, died only to rise again

Winning at swapsies • With the M5 Touring now available, we trade in our saloon.

Austerity done right • No-nonsense and yet oh-so luxurious.

8.5 out of 10 • The Mk8 Golf got off to a bad start. The facelift is much better.

Tomorrow’s world today • Scenic buyers have some ace...