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Honda Civic Type R VS Ford Focus ST Goodbye Feature 2025 ME 9
One last dance in these seminal hot hatchbacks...
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One last showdown: Ford Focus ST vs Honda Civic Type R

We take these manual, front-drive hot hatches for one final fling in Wales

One last showdown: Ford Focus ST vs Honda Civic Type R
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Bigger isn't always better: the 50 best used small cars

Bigger isn't always better: the 50 best used small cars
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Cupra Formentor VZ5 review

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Genesis G90 Wingback previews wild M5 Touring rival

Genesis G90 Wingback previews wild M5 Touring rival
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MG 2 EV is 'obvious area that's next to happen', says UK boss
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Skoda's wildest race cars and concepts

Skoda's wildest race cars and concepts
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Nio confirms Firefly hatchback for 2026 UK launch

Nio confirms Firefly hatchback for 2026 UK launch
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Inside the Skoda factory that's bigger than Monaco

Inside the Skoda factory that's bigger than Monaco
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New Genesis Magma GT concept previews mid-engined supercar

New Genesis Magma GT concept previews mid-engined supercar
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New Fiat 500 gets 64bhp hybrid set-up, manual ’box, fresh look

New Fiat 500 gets 64bhp hybrid set-up, manual ’box, fresh look
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BYD Atto 2 DM-i review

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New Nissan Leaf lands £3750 EV grant to start at £32,249

New Nissan Leaf lands £3750 EV grant to start at £32,249
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‘Audi is in my blood’ - Autocar readers share their Audi stories and electric e-tron driving impressions

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Volkswagen T-Roc

Incredibly popular compact crossover enters its second generation aiming to right some wrongs

Volkswagen T-Roc
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BMW XM

Does only the second-ever bespoke M car leave us excited about the future, or longing for the past?

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Toyota Hilux

New mild-hybrid diesel powertrain aims to give a well-established workhorse a final lease of life

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Mazda CX-80

Mazda's new flagship – a seven-seat SUV – arrives to challenge the likes of the Skoda Kodiaq

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BYD Atto 2 DM-i

Small electric crossover is retrofitted with a petrol engine to bring plug-in hybrid motoring down below £30,000

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Vauxhall Mokka GSE

The return of a true fast Vauxhall sub-brand… on an electric compact crossover

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MG IM5 review

This new EV is MG’s first super-saloon since the V8-engined ZT of 2003. But is it any good?

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Tesla Model 3

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BYD Sealion 7

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JLR loses half a billion after crippling cyber attack
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Ineos to axe 'several hundred' jobs as losses continue
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How I'll get Vauxhall back on track: new boss tells all
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Renault says the EU needs its own ZEV mandate

Renault says the EU needs its own ZEV mandate
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Skoda's wildest race cars and concepts

Skoda has a rich motorsport history – and an enduring talent for producing radical concept cars

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Honda Civic Type R VS Ford Focus ST Goodbye Feature 2025 ME 9
One last dance in these seminal hot hatchbacks...

One last showdown: Ford Focus ST vs Honda Civic Type R

One last showdown: Ford Focus ST vs Honda Civic Type R
Original 12130 elroq start of production
Skoda's manufacturing plant is the size of Monaco – 4000 cars are made here every day

Inside the Skoda factory that's bigger than Monaco

Inside the Skoda factory that's bigger than Monaco

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I didn't expect the Rocket to enter my ‘favourite cars of all time' list

Just 38 Rockets were made from 1992-1998, then a few more in 2007, like this one

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I put new wheels on my £500 Audi - now it does 72mpg

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I bought the lesser-known Mitsubishi Evo - by accident

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20th-century trailblazers: the best cars from 1901 to 1925
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British Motor Museum is new home of the Autocar Archive
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