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Autocar

Nov 06 2024
Magazine

Autocar is the car nut’s weekly fix, delivering you a unique mix of the latest news, opinion, features, first drives of new cars and in-depth road tests – all complemented by the best photography in the business. No other magazine covers the subject you love with such enthusiasm, insight and quality every week of the year. Autocar stands for the highest quality in car journalism – and is rewarded with access to the best new cars and the biggest news stories before any of the opposition which we share with you, our readers, every week.

LOVE OR LOATHE IT, TESLA IS A GAME-CHANGER

EV AND STRAIGHT-SIX OPTIONS FOR NEW M3 • BMW sports saloon lineage to diverge as Neue Klasse EVs arrive

WHY BMW M’S DIVISIVE XM IS TOO IMPORTANT TO AXE

HYUNDAI SHOWS ‘ROLLING LAB’ FOR SPORTS EV R&D • RN24 previews “near future” of electric N cars with WRC-bred technology

RUGGED 4x4s REVEAL SCOUT’S PROMISE

SUZUKI ENTERS EV FRAY WITH ACEMAN RIVAL • New eVitara will hit the UK next year priced below £35,000

STILLBORN JAG SUPERCAR GIVEN NEW LEASE OF LIFE

RADICAL NEW-ERA RENAULT EVs TO ARRIVE FROM 2028 • Next-gen batteries promise major boost in efficiency and sustainability

NISSAN PLOTS NEW AFFORDABLE CITY EV

CHEMICAL SOUP: HOW EV BATTERIES ARE MADE

SURPRISE BUT LITTLE DELIGHT IN AUTUMN BUDGET • Chancellor boosts funding for the sector but hoped-for EV incentives don’t appear

Grapevine

JLR OFFERS TO BUY BACK I-PACES OVER FIRE RISK • Battery recall prompts firm to replace the pack or ‘reacquire’ the car

NEW CARRERA T KEEPS MANUAL THRILLS

MY WEEK IN CARS

PRIOR CONVICTION

RACING LINES

YOUR VIEWS

TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT

Next week’s issue • ON SALE 13 NOVEMBER

Autocar

HYUNDAI INSTER • Can this new EV convince people that smallness is a luxury worth paying for?

ABARTH 600E • Fiat’s performance brand soups up its new electric compact SUV

AUDI RS Q8 PERFORMANCE • Audi releases yet more firepower from giant sports SUV’s volcanic V8

BMW M5 TOURING • Hot saloon finally turns estate again

AUDI RS E-TRON GT PERFORMANCE • Ingolstadt turns up the wick on its upgraded electric executive express

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTE • More power and increased EV range for the sporty plug-in hybrid Golf

DACIA DUSTER TCE 130 4x4 • Third generation of value-for-money off-roader ditches diesel for petrol

VOLKSWAGEN ID 3 GTX PERFORMANCE • At last, a hot version of the ‘Golf’ EV

AUDI RS5 SPORTBACK PERFORMANCE

McLAREN ARTURA • Mainstay of the McLaren line-up loses its top and gets plentiful revisions

LEXUS RC F • Lexus’s line of V8 hot rods ends with a fiery-sounding feast of carbonfibre

Get unlimited access to 129 years of searchable archive content

Testing, testing

S club heaven, 10 years on • A decade after the Tesla Model S changed the EV game forever, VICKY PARROTT takes an original 260,000-mile example on a road trip

Super Cali hedonistic • The idea of cars and coffee has its roots in sun-kissed LA but is the City of Angels still king of early-morning meets? JACK HARRISON finds out

Brought home from Europe • Brexit has made importing a car harder work but not impossible. JOHN EVANS meets a new Twingo owner to find out how it’s done

MINI COOPER • There’s something both familiar and unusual about our new petrol hatch

CUPRA BORN • Glitches galore continue inside and now there’s charge port trouble too

POLESTAR 2 • One major update later, is this EV still among the best on the market?

BMW i5 TOURING • How much better would a full-fat M version of our electric 5 Series be?

PORSCHE TAYCAN • How...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 76 Publisher: Haymarket Media Group Ltd Edition: Nov 06 2024

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: November 6, 2024

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Autocar is the car nut’s weekly fix, delivering you a unique mix of the latest news, opinion, features, first drives of new cars and in-depth road tests – all complemented by the best photography in the business. No other magazine covers the subject you love with such enthusiasm, insight and quality every week of the year. Autocar stands for the highest quality in car journalism – and is rewarded with access to the best new cars and the biggest news stories before any of the opposition which we share with you, our readers, every week.

LOVE OR LOATHE IT, TESLA IS A GAME-CHANGER

EV AND STRAIGHT-SIX OPTIONS FOR NEW M3 • BMW sports saloon lineage to diverge as Neue Klasse EVs arrive

WHY BMW M’S DIVISIVE XM IS TOO IMPORTANT TO AXE

HYUNDAI SHOWS ‘ROLLING LAB’ FOR SPORTS EV R&D • RN24 previews “near future” of electric N cars with WRC-bred technology

RUGGED 4x4s REVEAL SCOUT’S PROMISE

SUZUKI ENTERS EV FRAY WITH ACEMAN RIVAL • New eVitara will hit the UK next year priced below £35,000

STILLBORN JAG SUPERCAR GIVEN NEW LEASE OF LIFE

RADICAL NEW-ERA RENAULT EVs TO ARRIVE FROM 2028 • Next-gen batteries promise major boost in efficiency and sustainability

NISSAN PLOTS NEW AFFORDABLE CITY EV

CHEMICAL SOUP: HOW EV BATTERIES ARE MADE

SURPRISE BUT LITTLE DELIGHT IN AUTUMN BUDGET • Chancellor boosts funding for the sector but hoped-for EV incentives don’t appear

Grapevine

JLR OFFERS TO BUY BACK I-PACES OVER FIRE RISK • Battery recall prompts firm to replace the pack or ‘reacquire’ the car

NEW CARRERA T KEEPS MANUAL THRILLS

MY WEEK IN CARS

PRIOR CONVICTION

RACING LINES

YOUR VIEWS

TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT

Next week’s issue • ON SALE 13 NOVEMBER

Autocar

HYUNDAI INSTER • Can this new EV convince people that smallness is a luxury worth paying for?

ABARTH 600E • Fiat’s performance brand soups up its new electric compact SUV

AUDI RS Q8 PERFORMANCE • Audi releases yet more firepower from giant sports SUV’s volcanic V8

BMW M5 TOURING • Hot saloon finally turns estate again

AUDI RS E-TRON GT PERFORMANCE • Ingolstadt turns up the wick on its upgraded electric executive express

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTE • More power and increased EV range for the sporty plug-in hybrid Golf

DACIA DUSTER TCE 130 4x4 • Third generation of value-for-money off-roader ditches diesel for petrol

VOLKSWAGEN ID 3 GTX PERFORMANCE • At last, a hot version of the ‘Golf’ EV

AUDI RS5 SPORTBACK PERFORMANCE

McLAREN ARTURA • Mainstay of the McLaren line-up loses its top and gets plentiful revisions

LEXUS RC F • Lexus’s line of V8 hot rods ends with a fiery-sounding feast of carbonfibre

Get unlimited access to 129 years of searchable archive content

Testing, testing

S club heaven, 10 years on • A decade after the Tesla Model S changed the EV game forever, VICKY PARROTT takes an original 260,000-mile example on a road trip

Super Cali hedonistic • The idea of cars and coffee has its roots in sun-kissed LA but is the City of Angels still king of early-morning meets? JACK HARRISON finds out

Brought home from Europe • Brexit has made importing a car harder work but not impossible. JOHN EVANS meets a new Twingo owner to find out how it’s done

MINI COOPER • There’s something both familiar and unusual about our new petrol hatch

CUPRA BORN • Glitches galore continue inside and now there’s charge port trouble too

POLESTAR 2 • One major update later, is this EV still among the best on the market?

BMW i5 TOURING • How much better would a full-fat M version of our electric 5 Series be?

PORSCHE TAYCAN • How...


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