CAR BUYING & BEST OF GUIDES

If you’re looking for a new EV and want to spend around £30,000 or less here’s our round-up of the cheapest models on sale today. There's something for every taste in this electric car line up from budget to mid price models. Which one floats your boat? Citroen Ami From £7695 Okay, we’re...

Fancy venturing into the EV world but don’t want to fork out for a Tesla? Here are some cars that we think will do the trick instead. If you’re thinking about straying from fossil-fuelled cars and navigating down the EV path, there are plenty of options available without needing to...

From design to engineering, Pininfarina got its hands on everything from Ferrari to Peugeot. While there’re plenty of examples, here are some of the best: 1930 would see the birth of one of the world’s most influential and dynamic coachbuilders – Pininfarina S.p.A. Battista “Pinin” Farina, Pininfarina’s founder, broke away...

The kei car. Often fun, quirky and small enough to squeeze into Japan’s strict kei car regulations. What comes to mind for many is the Suzuki Cappuccino, or even the Honda Beat, both having been around since the 1990s, but in 2003 the Daihatsu Copen was injected into the...

Ford might have called time on its huge-selling Fiesta but many an enthusiast has been beguiled by the looks and performance of the various XR, RS and ST iterations. Here’s our look back at ten of the best Fast Fiestas from the 1300S of 1977 to the ST of 2018: 1300S - 1977 Just...

The whole point of a track day is for drivers to hone their driving skills and push their cars to, and beyond, the limit in a controlled environment. Track day cars should be tight enough to handle sharp corners, powerful enough to build a reasonable pace, and more importantly,...

If you were ready to buy a new car in 1993 there were some great new models to choose from. From family hatchbacks to supercharged luxury new cars of 1993 were in abundance. Some have lived on, while others are no longer in production. Let’s turn the clock back three decades,...

The brilliant Honda Civic Type R is 25 years old, and now we’ve got a new model. The perfect time, then, to remember all of the generations of the Honda Civic Type R. Read on for the evolution through six generations of the marque... EK9 – 1997-2000 This was the first Civic...

A legend amongst hot hatchbacks, it’s no wonder the Peugeot 205 GTI has topped so many of those ‘best ever’ polls. The Gerard Welter-penned styling still looks fresh almost forty years after the hugely entertaining Peugeot 205 GTI made its debut, those first models powered by a 1.6-litre engine developing...

With Fathers’ Day looming, why not call on PLAYMOBIL to treat your dad with a present he won’t be expecting. For the nostalgic dads This year the classic 1980s TV series Knight Rider celebrates its 40th anniversary. To commemorate the milestone, PLAYMOBIL has launched a brand-new replica of the iconic talking...