My Week in Cars

Autocar podcast: Is the inside of an Alpine the best recording studio?

This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior are driving home from Cumbria, the ideal spot to record the pod. Or is it?

8 October 2025
Autocar podcast: Is the inside of an Alpine the best recording studio?
Porsche Taycan Hyundai Ioniq 5 N front tracking
EVs democratise power and refinement, so mainstream brands can trade blows with premium players
Electric vehicles

EVs and China-led tech shift troubling premium brands

Mainstream and Chinese brands' adoption of new tech and electric drivetrains poses trouble for premium giants

8 October 2025
Autocar Business
EVs and China-led tech shift troubling premium brands
Slideshow

The greatest road car engines ever made

We've picked 50 of our favourite road-going engines, but we could easily have selected twice as many…

8 October 2025
The greatest road car engines ever made
New cars

New Aston Martin DB12 S boosts V8 to 690bhp

Sports car gets 19bhp upgrade, shoutier exhaust and new chassis set-up to give greater "sense of agility"

8 October 2025
New Aston Martin DB12 S boosts V8 to 690bhp
New cars

Tesla launches stripped-back Model Y and Model 3 variants

Entry-level cars gets part-cloth interior and smaller centre console; are claimed to be the most efficient Teslas yet

7 October 2025
Tesla launches stripped-back Model Y and Model 3 variants
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Consumer

Millions of drivers in line for £700 payments over car finance scandal

Around 14 million drivers in the UK could receive payments after being mis-sold car finance, says FCA

7 October 2025
Millions of drivers in line for £700 payments over car finance scandal
Corporate

JLR suffers estimated £1.5 billion hit from sales lost after cyber attack

Firm's sales dropped significantly in September as production and sales were incapacitated by hack

7 October 2025
Autocar Business
JLR suffers estimated £1.5 billion hit from sales lost after cyber attack
Renault 5 Turbo 3E production on road front tracking
Blue and red livery references the 5 Maxi Turbo that won the Tour de Corse in 1985
New cars

Watch: Wild new Renault 5 Turbo 3E burns rubber

533bhp hyper-hatch takes to Corsica for demonstration of its dynamic capabilities – and its hydraulic handbrake

7 October 2025
Watch: Wild new Renault 5 Turbo 3E burns rubber
New cars

Fastest Skoda Fabia yet brings 174bhp for £29,995

Skoda marks its 130th birthday with a motorsport-inspired version of its supermini

7 October 2025
Fastest Skoda Fabia yet brings 174bhp for £29,995
New cars

JLR to restart production tomorrow following September hack

British firm has not built a car since its computer systems were hacked on 1 September

7 October 2025
JLR to restart production tomorrow following September hack

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