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THE LION THING How to make everything else in the crowded crossover market look instantly outdated Words Phil McNamara Photography Matt Howell AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 101

New Peugeot 408 T ypically you might not give a front-wheel-drive crossover a second glance. With the new Peugeot 408, it’s hard to drag your eyes away. The Obsession Blue metallic paint shimmers in the Parisian sun, as the rakish hatchback stands in the rooftop viewing area of Stel- lantis’s ADN studio. Light and shade scatter across the angular bodywork and the dif- fuser juts rearward, like a cocky boxer sticking out his jaw to taunt an opponent. Except this jarring plastic carbuncle might ▲ THE NEW GRILLE The new grille treatment is halfway will be its glass jaw. between Peugeot’s typical frame and Tesla EVs that eliminate a grille This is Peugeot’s new manifesto, says altogether. ‘It’s a way for us to keep the grille, which is part of Peugeot’s DNA,’ design project manager Pierre-Paul Mattei. explains design manager Mattei. ‘But when you discover the car from afar, it’s ‘Our intention is to reinvent the C-segment hard to see where the grille begins; it disappears a little bit. That’s unusual for sedan, creating a new worldwide object; us: it’s the way to treat the front for the next generation of Peugeots.’ more exciting, bold and more modern.’ Let’s ⊳ SQUARE WHEELS take a guided tour in his company. Wheel sizes span 17 to 20 inches, with this GT model’s optional alloys featuring ▼ A THIRD WAY? an unusual squared-off effect. At low First Citroën C5X, now Peugeot 408: the speeds, the 408’s rims’ outer brightwork French see a gap between saloon and draws your eye to the blanked-off areas, SUV to explore. But it’s no revolutionary, highlighting the square graphic. ‘It’s à la Renault’s ultra-functional Scenic. disruptive,’ chuckles Mattei. ‘The 408 is higher than a classical sedan but it’s not in the SUV world,’ says Mattei. Ground clearance is 4cm higher than the 308 hatch’s, but it stands 1.5cm lower than a BMW X4, and the roof is naturally lower too. The versatile seating position is more dynamic than an SUV’s. Even in a car this striking, that rear diffuser still stands out 102 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

▲ THE COCKPIT Central The interior will be instantly familiar to touchscreen has anyone who’s seen the new 308’s: six customisable they’re the same, because the 308 hatch, SW estate and 408 were shortcut keys conceived in parallel. ⊳ EFFICIENCY DRIVE The 408 gets Peugeot’s compact The 408’s halfway-house ride height steering wheel, and 10-inch instruments delivers superior aerodynamics with 3D effect on GT models. The 408 compared with an SUV: its 0.28 drag also has a new voice control system. coefficient is closer to a saloon’s. Aero features include the tailgate’s ‘cat’s ear’ ⊲ SHADES OF LAMBO flaps, directing air to the rear spoiler Isn’t that cartoonish diffuser and faceted where it’s chopped off to reduce drag. bodywork less Peugeot, more Lambo? Mattei confides that some Peugeot The engines also prioritise efficiency: executives made the same observation. 178bhp and 222bhp plug-in hybrids, a Don’t expect a 650hp V8, though, in a 128bhp three-cylinder petrol – and a five-door which will cost around pure electric version to follow. With £29,000 when deliveries begin next petrol close to £2 a litre, that’s a smart spring. On length, it sits in the range approach, and it may help cement a between 308 SW and 508 Fastback. subtly different body type in a market crying out for fresh thinking. Multi-functional; one of those AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 103 functions being to bring a bit of Lambo magic

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY M ADE At its boisterous, chaotic best, the Nürburgring 24 Hours is one of the great events. But as we discovered from our place in the Mini pit garage, when it all goes wrong, it goes very wrong indeed Words James Taylor 104 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

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Mini vs world’s toughest race I t’s 2am. My eyelids feel like they’re trying to lift barbells. I’m wearing a slightly- Fooled you too-big fireproof suit and doing my best all! Not really to be helpful without getting in the way. I feel a bit inadequate, and a bit scared. a mechanic And I’m wondering how I’m going to tell at all. Ha! this story. Because it isn’t quite the one we had planned. Luckier cars completed It’s the 2022 Nürburgring 24 Hours, more than 150 laps and I’m embedded in the Bulldog Racing 106 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022 squad, Mini’s partner team for the event. It’s the first time in 10 years Mini has wielded an official entry in the race, and its tiny-but-mighty JCW GP is battling 137 other cars on the 16-mile circuit. CAR is here to lend a hand, as a spare mechanic and helper for the weekend. Plus, since the Mini GP is as close to stock spec as possi- ble, and fully road legal, we’re going to take over once it’s crossed the line, head out of the gates and hit the roads among the Eifel Moun- tains. A proper Mini adventure. There’s a slight issue with that plan. For the second time in six hours, the Mini’s currently stranded on the circuit with a wheel torn off, after being struck by another car. Let’s spin the clock back to 3pm. It’s 60 minutes before the start of the 50th running of the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Whereas Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona are established Grand Slam classic endurance races, the N24 feels like a fixture from the ’70s that’s never entirely changed. The fans take over the forests, which echo to thumping techno and schlager – aka drinking – music, and are filled with elabo- rate multi-level camping structures. We’re in the team garage, the Mini sharing space with five other cars: two BMW 2-series, a Porsche 911 GT3R and two Caymans. With nearly 140 cars competing, pitlane real estate is tight. Bulldog Racing is a new team, using hand-picked mechanics from WEC, DTM and beyond. Crew chief Sven Thelen gives me the tour. Everything is me- ticulously organised, from the immaculately racked tools to the live-feed screens and timing monitors. CAR’s job will be to clean the car’s screen and headlights (four of them – the GP has an extra brace of high-intensity spotlights to help cut through the pitch-black forest sections) at pitstops, inspect the front for damage and clear its grilles of debris. Below those grilles is a serious front splitter designed to direct air under the car, balanced at the rear by the biggest wing I’ve ever seen attached to a Mini. ‘We based it on that of a 911 GT3 Cup car,’ Thelen explains. ‘The rules say it can’t be higher than the roof – it’s just lower,’ he smiles. Aside from the aero mods, the Mini has been kept as close as possi- ble to the JCW GP road car I’ve driven to the Nürburgring. The 302bhp engine and eight-speed auto gearbox are stock. It’s sat on slick tyres, but they’re on regular road rims. There’s a rollcage, and the stock 44-litre fuel tank is replaced by a 100-litre tank behind the front seats, fed via the plastic rear side window. Racing springs and remote-reservoir dampers sit in the same position as the road car’s; the racing brakes are the same size but have much taller pads; the dashboard is the same, other than an extra race display. And now the first of its four drivers, Markus Fischer, is taking the Mini to the grid. For the first time since pre-pandemic 2019, fans swarm the grid. They love the Mini, its Monte Carlo Rally-inspired red body/white roof livery and bulldog mascot a magnet for ⊲

Where else do you see such a variety of cars in the same race? PITLANE REAL ESTATE IS TIGHT, THE MINI SHARING SPACE WITH FIVE OTHER CARS AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 107

LIKE THE TT OR PIKES PEAK IT’S AT ONCE BREATHTAKING AND DISQUIETING Mini gets a pair of extra lights to help the driver see as the race pounds into the night at full pace 108 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Nose turning Mini vs world’s toughest race in while wing is still in the STILL CRAZY last corner This year was the 50th running of the world’s craziest endurance race, and it’s showing no signs of maturing into soft middle age. Unlike Sebring and Le Mans, the N24 isn’t part of the prototype-led World Endurance Championship, instead keeping faith with road-based cars. JT honing his 1970 trackside Endurance races have been held at the meditation skills ’Ring since the 1920s, but the first 24 Hours happens in 1970. Clemens Schickentanz smartphone cameras. It’s cars such as the Mini that make the N24 and Hans-Joachim Stuck win in a BMW unique: the ultra-quick GT cars share track space with Touring Cars, 2002Ti. Stuck will win again (for the third sports cars and modified road cars, including a Dacia Logan. In the time) in 2004 in a BMW M3 GTR. Mini’s SP3T (for ‘turbocharged’) class it has its work cut out, as there are TCR Touring Cars alongside more humble machinery (including 1984 an Opel Astra Cup car being crewed by none other than Stellantis and Alfa Romeo bosses Carlos Tavares and Jean-Phillipe Imparato). After a year off while the new Grand Prix circuit is built, the 24 Hours returns to a Time to clear the grid. With so many cars on track, the race start is combo circuit incorporating the fresh track staggered, the field split into three rolling-start waves. Back in the pit and the Nordschleife. BMW wins, nudging it garage we hear and feel the GT3 cars thunder past, as we see them on towards its record as the most successful the team’s big screens. The Mini is in the third wave, and safely manufacturer at the N24 with 20 wins. through the first corner, a tight bottleneck seemingly designed to cause trouble. 2018 Battles rage all through the field, especially at the front. It feels like The Manthey-Porsche 911 GT3 sets the watching the Isle of Man TT or Pikes Peak: at once breathtaking and fastest lap in modern N24 history, 8m 17.3s, disquieting. The GT3 cars get quicker by about three seconds each at an average speed of 114mph, driven by year, their drivers pushing to the absolute limit. With reliability now Nick Tandy, Frederic Makowiecki, Richard no longer a reason to take it easy, this is a 24-hour sprint race, on one Lietz and Patrick Pilet. With seven wins, of the world’s most unforgiving circuits. In what seems like the blink Manthey is the most successful N24 team. of an eye, the leaders have caught the tail-enders. The Dacia appears almost stationary as the GT3 cars flash past. They squeeze between AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 109 barriers, grass, kerbs and backmarkers, as if in an arcade game – joined, once the inevitable accidents have begun, by recovery trucks. I feel quite invested in the Mini now. Every time it appears on the screen I know it’s safe. I wince as it nearly gets taken out by a Lam- borghini. The team are, however, unflappable, drawing on race experience from around the world. They settle into fold-out chairs, watching the race unfold. When Jackie Stewart called the Nürbur- gring the Green Hell, he was racing around here in a GP car without armco, nothing between him and the trees except side fuel tanks. ⊲

Mini vs world’s toughest race Don’t think Countryman; it’s based on the JCW GP There’s much more run-off and proper barriers these days, but to me CLUTCHING MY MICROFIBRE it still looks scary out there. CLOTH AND CAN OF CLEANING A mechanic next to me nods off after just a few minutes, the al- FOA M , I WA IT FO R T HE CA R ways-on adrenaline of preparation giving way to exhaustion. All that can be done has been done; the car is in the lap of the racing gods that light by racing car standards at a little under 1200kg but it really now. We’re about to be awakened from our reverie by the first pitstop. does feel fast.’ Eight laps have gone by, the Mini getting through 10-15 litres of fuel each lap. I know the role I’m playing isn’t the most crucial but I still Pitstop two comes quickly, and is less nerve-wracking (for me). feel nervous, clutching my microfibre cloth and can of cleaning foam Driver Uwe Krumscheid is in, and in the meantime the car has among the crew, awaiting the red car’s arrival. climbed 21 positions to P6 in class and P101 overall. Fischer hits his marks and the next driver, Danny Brink, clambers Thelen and the Bulldog team are calculating how much oil should aboard while a laptop is plugged into the diagnostics port, monitor- be added at the next stop. Canisters have been pre-filled with differ- ing how much oil the engine’s using. I’m paranoid about getting in ent amounts – 50ml, 100ml, 125ml and so on – to make topping-up a the way of the mechanics changing the front tyres and hang to the simple job. Calm, organised, efficient. Calm before multiple storms. side, reaching at a stretch to clear the screen, and only getting to the last bit mid-screen just as the car is about to drop from its jacks. In the pitlane outside, there’s the sound of a race car coming in very fast to the garage next door, followed by a huge bang and Fischer’s happy: ‘The car feels good. It’s only in the exits from shocked, raised voices. Three mechanics in the neighbouring team fast corners and on the long straight the other cars are getting away. have been injured and two have to go to hospital. In the slow corners, we have an advantage; the car’s really good on direction changes.’ Then there’s an even bigger bang on track. Two GT3 front-runners, a factory-backed Porsche and an Audi, driven by brothers Laurens I’ve experienced that Mini flickability on the roads on the way here and Dries Vanthoor, clash in the super-fast sweepers at the end of the in the GP road car; it feels like it might be a handful in fast corners on Tiergarten section. The Porsche spins at 170mph-plus and slams the track. Not so, team driver Jens Dralle tells me: ‘A short-wheelbase head-on into a marshal post, the marshals running for cover while car can be tricky around here but this is really stable; we got the being shot-blasted by bits of carbonfibre. Thankfully everyone’s dampers working really well. It’s fast too: there’s so much torque that okay. This doesn’t feel like a game any more. This all feels very real. we short shift, so there’s less stress through the transmission. It’s not 110 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Green Hell suddenly got very real for our Mini To the GT3s, every other class is just chicanes It’s fully road legal (while all the wheels are in situ…) And about to get more so: Krumscheid’s been hit by another car. Dralle isn’t happy at the end of his stint. ‘It’s so dangerous out Moments later there’s a glimpse of the Mini on the screen, stricken there. The GT3 cars were fine coming past me, but with each other…’ against a barrier. Thelen assembles everyone, speaking in English for And the car? ‘Oh perfect – it’s running really well.’ my benefit. The car is stuck – its front wheel has been ripped off in the impact. The circuit is trying to recover it, which will take time. In The mechanics will grab a few zeds in the chairs. Will you get any the meantime, don’t talk to anyone about the accident, prep for the sleep, I ask Thelen? It’s a silly question. ‘Tomorrow evening is when car’s return, and rest. It’s impressive leadership. I’ll sleep,’ he replies, and returns to his vigil at the screens. It takes nearly an hour for the car to be recovered and it’s after But sleep comes earlier than anyone anticipated. Krumscheid is 8.30pm when it returns to the back of the pits, being craned from a struck by exactly the same accident that befell him in his first stint – flatbed lorry (giving a great view of its expansive diffuser and flat an opportunist car diving for a gap that isn’t there, once again tearing floor). The Bulldog team calmly and methodically go to work – grass off the front wheel the team has worked so hard to replace. The car is and debris out, front splitter off, new front-left upright, suspension recovered again but in doing so, it’s been dragged on its brake disc and brakes, compressed air to blow all the dirt out. New bodywork and oil pan. The team could repair it but it’s a bigger task than before, spats, new mirror housing. Tracking reset. New driver Dralle in, car and they’d no longer be racing for a result; just to finish. And to finish out. All in, they lose only 90 minutes. a race which, this year, feels more dangerous than ever. Then Jens radios: there’s a terrible vibration. Bulldog hearts sink. A development driver for Hankook tyres, Krumscheid has done He has to nurse the car around nearly a whole lap before he returns 25,000 laps of the Nürburgring in every imaginable circumstance. – it’s just a puncture, caused by debris from someone else’s accident. Even he says he doesn’t feel safe out there this time. Maybe it’s the No harm done, he’s back out. return of the fans and everyone’s a bit giddy; maybe there’s just some- thing in the air tonight. But the risks being taken out there are high; The carnage continues out there. A KTM X-Bow (the new GTX perhaps too high. Bulldog Racing makes the decision not to tempt racing version) is on fire; marshals do their best to extinguish it but fate, and to step away from the Green Hell’s mouth. Which leaves it it’s burned through the brake lines and it rolls across the circuit, a with unfinished business. The team plans to be back next year. wheeled bonfire, crashing into a barrier on the opposite side. There’s so much smoke it’s hard to tell if the driver has been able to get out, The N24 remains one of the last great old-school races, and you and for a sickening moment it seems they might still be inside. really do have to be there to experience it. It’s as real as it gets. But this They’re safe, happily. year the danger felt more real than ever. Then again, worries always seem smaller after a good night’s sleep… AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 111

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Must. Remain. Hello Objective. The greatest sports car on sale? Ours for six months? Ben Miller will not get swept up by the GT4 hype train. Promise Revs mean Olgun Kordal Porsche Cayman GT4 man. For most of the journey heat, and the Month 1 home I thought of nothing. GT4 loves to I was too tired, the roads too rev. Hence the The story so far busy and too boring. battery of rads Peak Cayman, ours for the But with an hour to go some- and coolers summer. A third of UK Cayman thing changed. A synapse buyers go GT4 – quite right too? somewhere flickered into life, I made a decision and the + With PDK ’box, not the manual Porsche and I detoured. It’d - With PDK ’box, not the manual take longer to get home but our new B-road route might offer Logbook the chance to dig into the GT4’s reserves a little deeper. The Price £80,500 (£97,132 as tested) memory of the drive that fol- Performance 3995cc flat-six, lowed is with me still, seven 414bhp, 3.9sec 0-62mph, years later; the electrifying 188mph Efficiency 25.4mpg sense of mastery over violent (official), 25.5mpg (tested), physics, the outlandish corner 251g/km CO2 Energy cost 32p speeds, the noise. per mile Miles this month 796 Total miles 10,483 And now there’s a 718 GT4 (982) on my driveway, bringing It had rained. In truth, it had with it the promise of drives rained a lot. A McLaren had like that every single day. Quite inconveniently stopped dead in honestly, it’s all a bit much. Can the middle of a Welsh B-road. it be Christmas every day and Another Porsche, a 911 GT3 RS, still feel special? Or will the had comprehensively re-engi- more accessible end of Porsche’s neered what I considered GT line-up infuriate more than possible in, and plausible from, it enraptures? I think we all a car. And a Corvette had spent know the answer but I feel duty two days trying to crash into bound to at least attempt an great swathes of Wales. But injection of jeopardy. finally, after two very long days, 2015’s Sports Car Giant Test – The 981 GT4 was a landmark my first – was done. car for Porsche, representing as it did the first time the Cayman For the drive home I dropped had been given more power into then-new 981 Cayman than a contemporary 911. Wary GT4 the way you might drop of damaging 911 sales and un- into a bath after a long walk, convinced the world actually naked, in a blizzard; exhausted, wanted a more serious and seri- numb, a hollowed-out husk of a ously expensive Cayman, Weissach appeared reluctant to let its engineers loose on its tin-top two-seater. But when the green light ⊲ AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 113

Rear wing angle of attack looks Allen-key adjustable; isn’t The GT4 remains a machine of meltwater purity. It is what it is: joy on wheels (and Cup 2 rubber) came there was no holding hefty update on the original. The GT4 remains a machine Clubsport package. (Said back: a longer nose, for better The engine is a 4.0-litre unit of meltwater purity. By contem- package bundles together a fire aero and to package increased porary standards it’s almost extinguisher in the passenger cooling, 911 GT3-derived sus- based on the current 911 motor, absurdly analogue. There isn’t a footwell, a bolted-in half-cage pension (blessing the Cayman bored-out and de-turbo- single knob or button on the and preparation for six-point with a 13mm track increase and charged. Downforce is up 50 steering wheel (lesser Caymans harnesses and a battery discon- a 30mm suspension drop) and per cent over the previous car – sport a rotary mode switch), nor nect switch.) the 3.8-litre naturally-aspirated one reason this GT4 is some 12 is there a head-up display. The flat-six from the 911 Carrera S. seconds faster around the Nür- infotainment screen is comi- The 718 GT4 starts at burgring despite being heavier cally small by 2022 standards, £80,500. This one’s a £97k car. GT boss Andreas Preuninger (blame the particulate filters). and good luck with voice That’s what happens when a described the 981 GT4 as ‘old control. (You can’t hear your yellow stripe on the steering school, not old fashioned’, and And where the original GT4 own screams at 8000rpm; wheel is £168, cruise control that ethos lives on in the had no full-house convertible Alexa wouldn’t stand a chance.) (bum-basic and non-adaptive) 982-generation 718 GT4, the car equivalent (the very lovely The GT4 goes without rear- costs £228 and painted head- you see here. While evolving Boxster Spyder was close but wheel steering, active light cleaning nozzle covers set only gently visually (just the compromised), the 718 intro- aerodynamics or roll-battling you back a baffling £143. Just use way design boss Michael Mauer duced the GT4 Spyder, which is electro-mechanical trickery. It less masking tape? likes it), the 718 represents a as close to a drop-top GT4 as is what it is: joy on wheels (and Porsche was able to create. Michelin Cup 2 rubber). Plenty of people will tell you a four-cylinder Cayman is all you Half-cage This GT4 arrived with 9500 need. Plenty more will tell you impinges on miles on the clock and sports a the 718 Cayman GTS, with its dreamy list of options. While six-cylinder, naturally-aspirat- practicality the standard brakes are superb, ed motor, is all anyone could we have the £5597 ceramics. ever need. (The UK Cayman Pedal feel. Further building its sales split last year was almost case for being pretty much the exactly 33 per cent each across ultimate track-ready road car, the three cars, unbelievably.) I RK21 CZX also features bucket can’t help but feel those things seats (£3788), the semi-auto would only be true if the GT4 PDK transmission option (£2k; didn’t exist. But the key in my more than 85 per cent of GT4 slightly moist palm would buyers choose it) and the £2778 suggest that it does. And no one is more grateful than I. 114 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Our Cars Sportsbike reconnaissance Voyageof discovery Where are some good local roads? The Cupra can help. By Curtis Moldrich 1 ROLL THE DICE 1 2 2TbkuIhcue’nvTeuteefrHtaprvhobmebeEuasinytrlieeaFaftilhrrsnyUeetrdahoaNiarianlttrpdgse4pBsao0msdEsnmtelyiaGfgpairfnhhutImsttNnesliyt.loroiSeaffuersartarrito,nrhnbageduirattssantfhdieeld. Wanting to scout out some good local roads to ride later on my Yamaha R7, I downloaded Calimoto, a free app that generates routes and round trips: you pick the length and the rough direction, and it does the rest.  6 3 5 3 THE UNKNOWN Cupra Leon 4 These tree-lined VZ2 2.0 TSI 6Itrttirfo’otasu’usvnhiEtneaoetYcllhsmsrfeooeEleirdkCm.eiiOInbutat’tlplPdehelreirbaEtseoemscNcttaaaehiInnnbiNangblbpakGreespoh.trfaooeodwucnsinaftwdahterehswjeoRunes7ct,lobhsuoetw Month 7 twisties are a little too 5 THE SWEET SPOT blind for my liking. Still, The story so far This is what it’s all about. New tarmac, it’s what the R7 is made Cupra’s version of the VW Golf R, interesting topography and some for – and the Cupra can with 296bhp and hatch versatility serious curves less than an hour from handle them well, too. + The fast and comfy Cupra my home. I’ve found myself making Just wait for some clear seems to do it all… good use of the Leon’s shift paddles. road, point – and shoot. - …but is it a bit too well behaved for its own good? 4TcasgYhlriernoGaiasaimusvrIinssteVaendlih:rn’E.,taItA’toil,hdlIsfbeaeTowenarrolesAsaoaulkrldneriaMpeasaip.sIwbibanSeiilgtksSihneotg.htcrTieisonhevbceesritfertoeuodrdmniebistplnhytseall Logbook Price £36,130 (£37,195 as tested) Performance 1984cc turbo- charged four-cylinder, 296bhp, 5.7sec 0-62mph, 155mph Efficiency 35.8-37.2mpg (official), 30.7mpg (tested), 171g/km CO2 Energy cost 27.9p per mile Miles this month 598 Total miles 3724 AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 115

The US A squadron? A Army knife posse? What is Purpose-built and built for a purpose (in the collective the right spec…). By Jake Groves noun? Jeep Wrangler Time to pick apart the Wran- full well how noisy those While lifting out/unbolting the Rubicon gler’s myriad options. This knobbly off-road BF Goodrich roof panels of my Wrangler is Month 3 month my Nacho Orange two- Mud-Terrain tyres would be on more involved, the falling-off-a- door Rubicon, with its tarmac. I opted for them none- log ease of just pressing a button The story so far fixed-panel roof, is up against a theless, despite my intention and seeing the top roll back Comparing a more practical, relative bookend of the Wran- being that I’ll spend 99 per cent can’t be ignored, particularly road-biased Wrangler with our gler range: a four-door in a of my time with the Jeep on the with our, erm, highly changea- own, less practical Wrangler much more road-biased spec, road, not off it. ble weather. + Realising how versatile the with a rolltop fabric roof. Wrangler can be But this 80th Anniversary Look, I know I’m splitting - Realising mine might not be Let’s get the big one out the special edition in Sarge Green, hairs here. If you’re after a the best spec way first: the four-door is the with its Bridgestone Dueler Wrangler, there will be compro- far more practical option by H/T rubber, is in a different mises no matter what version Logbook miles. The rear seats are easy to league in terms of refinement. you go for. You’re buying the Price £53,800 (£55,800 as get into and there’s loads of The longer wheelbase also Jeep for its effervescent charm tested) Performance 1995cc space for three adults, as well as helps, making the Wrangler feel and immense capability. But turbocharged four-cylinder, acres of bootspace. I loaded it up less twitchy driving over road these two examples prove it can 268bhp, 7.3sec 0-62mph, with five people and plenty of imperfections. be a mud-ploughing tank just 99mph Efficiency 24.4mpg luggage and it didn’t break a as much as it can be a quirky, (official), 22.9mpg (tested), sweat. My two-door can only fit Then there’s the roof option, fun-to-drive family wagon. 260g/km CO2 Energy cost four rather than five, you need which is only available on the 59.3per mile Miles this month to be an Olympic gymnast (or four-door variant anyway. @_jakegroves 1728 Total miles 5432 five years old) to climb in, and you’d better be packing light. The other biggie is tyre choice. I came into running a Wrangler Rubicon knowing This 80th Anniversary special edition, with its Bridgestone Dueler H/T rubber, is in a different league in terms of refinement 116 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Our Cars That’s not update seems to have fixed it. That’s a problem that can’t be going to fix A few weeks later the tyre fixed by an over-the-air update itself, is it? – nor can an airbag control unit pressure sensor revealed a issue that came to light. So it’ll How very analogue problem with the rear left. be back to Stevenage soon. Turns out there was a sidewall Tyre problems. By Phil McNamara split in the 275/40 R22 @CARPhilMc Bridgestone Alenza. Cue some Amusingly, I overheard a couple with ‘No source available’ in hopeless customer service: BMW iX in Waitrose’s car park discuss- front of a list of radio stations Kwik Fit failed to follow up our xDrive 40 M Sport ing the iX’s Bugs Bunny grille; presumably broadcasting. It’s a conversation despite me email- Month 2 appropriate given we’ve had a known issue: BMW forums ing, while BMW dealer Barons few teething troubles. suggest holding down the Watford was unresponsive to The story so far volume switch to reboot the my three calls. BMW’s electric flagship, here Our first proper road trip was system, but that didn’t work. with smallest battery and least blighted by a software glitch si- The fault occurred on and off Thankfully I got hold of Lee powerful motor lencing all media. The for a week or so, but a software at Sytner Stevenage. He trawled + Sytner Stevenage’s customer touchscreen kept trolling me the system to discover a com- service plete lack of these Alenzas in - Early niggles including an the UK and no date for any airbag control unit recall factory outputs: the industry’s Logbook supply issues striking again. Price £72,795 (£86,020 as Switching both rears to Pirelli P tested) Performance 71kWh Zeros would cost £836.33. Ouch. battery, twin e-motors, 322bhp, 6.1sec 0-62mph, 124mph I’m slightly ashamed to admit Efficiency 3.22 miles per kWh that BMW’s press garage came (official), 2.66 miles per kWh to my rescue, couriering one of (tested), 0g/km CO2 Range its spares to BMW Stevenage, 231-264 miles (official), 189 who rushed me in on a Saturday miles (tested) Energy cost 6p morning and saved my per mile Miles this month 851 weekend plans. The tyre swap Total miles 4070 and disposal cost £26 plus VAT. But the tyre dearth leaves me with an uneasy feeling for any iX owners who get a flat. Five pots and pillowy wheel drive and 395bhp from the turbo five-pot is a mighty It’s a dreamy combination. By Ben Barry combination. Audi RS3 One of the big differences does. (That car also made my The steering is another strik- Month 4 between the new RS3 and some kids sick; the RS3 doesn’t.) I only ing difference too. I default to – if not all – previous Audi RS take the dampers out of the Dynamic setting, which the The story so far models is its impressive ride Comfort to experiment (engag- rulebook says should be stodgy. Life with Audi’s gen-three quality. It’s crucial to note here ing Torque Rear requires the It’s actually quite fluid and light, five-cylinder uber hatch that our bells-and-whistles stiffest setting) and soon switch and rapid off-centre. I’d calm it + Five-cylinder quattro Launch Edition gets the nor- back. Rear-biased quattro all- down, given the option, but goodness, wrapped up in a car mally optional adaptive otherwise I quite like it. that promises to reward on a dampers as standard, and while thrash, but also to be safe and they’re hardly pillowy around @IamBenBarry comfortable transport town, they’re more than accept- - £60k is a lot of cash able sub-30mph. They’re then An RS with ride able to limber up into a lovely quality and good Logbook supple stride when you get Price £60,460 (£60,460 as some velocity under those steering? What tested) Performance 2480cc 19-inch wheels. is going on? turbocharged five-cylinder, 395bhp, 3.8sec 0-62mph, That’s better for passenger 174mph Efficiency 31.0mpg comfort but also for driver con- (official), 27.4mpg (tested), fidence, because the RS3 flows 205g/km C02 Energy cost with the road rather than fight- 28.7p per mile Miles this ing it as, say, a 2012-2015 RS4 month 1048 Total miles 3109 AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 117

You drive ’Star quality? our cars A couple of EV-curious CAR readers test our 2. Deposits ahoy? Let’s find out. By Tim Pollard Polestar 2 The biggest challenge facing his dream EV is the e-Tron GT ‘Crikey! It really Month 5 car manufacturers persuading – but he needs the space to pins you back motorists to go electric is the which he’s become accustomed in your seat. As The story so far bums-on-seats test. EVs seem living with an A6 Avant. quick as a C63’ One of our favourite EVs, so alien, so daunting, so expen- tested here in twin-motor spec sive, so other to those reared on ‘I don’t do SUVs,’ he says. WILL KINNEAR + Not a Tesla; handsome; a fossil-fuel diet. Or at least, ‘They’re higher up and heavier wonderfully minimalist inside they do on paper. What but have no real space advan- ‘The view out is limited: the - Not a Tesla; cramped; hard happens when you overcome tages over an estate car. What I shroud for the forward-facing on the shoulders of its tyres your preconceptions, pluck up really want is an electric wagon cameras behind the rear-view the courage and simply jump in but I don’t want an MG 5 and mirror takes up quite a lot of Logbook and have a go? We picked two the electric Audi estate car is space and the view rearwards is Price £45,900 (£50,800 as CAR readers at different stages still some way off.’ restricted too. That said, the 2 tested) Performance 78kWh of plug-in readiness and let has better forward visibility battery, twin e-motors, 402bhp, them loose in our Polestar 2. Will’s already tried a Jaguar than the i-Pace. I found the Jag- 4.7sec 0-62mph, 127mph Here’s how they got on. i-Pace and approaches the Pole- uar’s cab-forward design meant Efficiency 3.2 miles per kWh star with interest. ‘It’s quite the A-pillars were in a strange (official), 2.7 miles per kWh Will Kinnear is a flexible hard to pigeonhole, isn’t it?’ he place and I was constantly (tested), 0g/km CO2 Range workspace consultant from observes. ‘It’s comparatively having to peer around them.’ 292 miles (official), 211 miles Northamptonshire. He’s been high up, but it’s not quite a (tested) Energy cost 7.5p per persuaded of the tax efficiencies saloon car, not quite a hatch- Settled in, it’s time to take the mile Miles this month 1050 of running an electric company back and nor is it an SUV. It’s Total miles 8078 car and describes the fiscal ad- neither fish nor fowl.’ vantages as a ‘no-brainer’ – but he’s been going round the He settles in comfortably houses trying to track down the enough, though, and despite right one. A serial Audi owner, finding the front seats overly firm, he’s a fan of the wide range of lumbar adjustment. 118 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Polestar 2 for a drive in the ing a mass of grubby the 2’s funky gearlever while lurking over his shoulder, Cambridgeshire countryside. fingerprints all over the glass. prodding the display can inad- finally convince him to vertently nudge the car into commit? ‘Crikey!’ exclaims Will as the As an Android smartphone neutral when driving. Happily, roads open up and he introduc- loyalist, Will is immediately at a safety control won’t let this For him, it’s a matter of which es accelerator to carpet. ‘It really home with the Google info- happen without the driver’s electric car to go for, rather pins you back in your seat. It’s tainment and navigates his way foot on the brake. than whether to plug in. Like relentless – but a little strange, around the touchscreen’s Will, he is driven by the tax and too. It’s as fast as a C63 AMG I menus and logic with ease. As Would Will commit to a cost advantages of choosing an drove recently, but there’s no he should: the user interface Polestar? ‘It’s lovely to drive. I’d EV. He’s done the numbers and sound or gearchange to provide (UI) is simple and intuitive, have one in a heartbeat, if the knows this bigger-batteried 2 sensory excitement. It’d take with large script and easy-to- numbers were right – but really should have the capacity he me a while to get used to this.’ prod buttons. That said, he I want an electric estate car. needs to meet most of his daily finds that resting his palm on The 2 doesn’t have enough driving requirements. Will owns an S3 hot hatch space inside for me, but I think alongside the family A6 estate, ‘I’m reassured it’s more attractive than a Tesla. ‘I feel reassured by the range so he knows his quick cars. He by the range; I prefer the more traditional, [circa 210 miles],’ he says. ‘I finds the Polestar’s ride comfier Heathrow and European style to Tesla’s could get to the NEC or Heath- than his Audis’ (‘they’re really back non-stop’ George Jetson design.’ row airport and back without quite stiff’) but the electric stopping to charge, and that’s Swede’s steering is a little sludg- ROB AHERNE Rutland resident Rob Aherne important to me. My current ier (‘there’s a bit more delay is preparing to take the plunge Golf GTE won’t even get to our before the car reacts to inputs’). and go electric – and our Pole- nearby office on one charge.’ star is right at the top of his He’s not a fan of the artificial shopping list. Would an extend- It’s interesting that Rob has click-clack of the indicators and ed test drive in the CAR used a plug-in hybrid as a step- he complains that the central magazine long-termer, without ping stone to full EV ownership. touchscreen catches reflections the pressure of a salesman He reckons the PHEV experi- in bright sunshine, highlight- ence has given him the ⊲ AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 119

confidence to upgrade to a fully soned road tester. the Polestar’s character. Rob ‘It’s quick and electric car and his shortlist ‘I really like what they’ve mentions how easy it is to the kids love comprises this exact spec of adjust creep or one-pedal the instant EV Polestar and a Ford Mustang done with Polestar,’ he notes. driving mode via a simple tap acceleration – Mach-E. ‘It’s clever brand positioning on the touchscreen. ‘They’ve I do too’ and I find the blank-sheet solu- really thought about what ‘My leasing options are a tion very appealing. It’s happens if this is your first EV.’ ROB AHERNE long-range, all-wheel drive 2 or premium without being OTT – a bottom-rung Mach-E. I very a slice of everyday luxury. I like Rob’s children are younger evades. ‘It feels a heavy car and much prefer the Polestar, but how its technology is under- than Will’s and his three kids it means that I’m quite careful my partner is less sure and likes stated; they have resisted (11, nine and six) and dog fit in where I deploy all that power,’ the Ford.’ overcomplicating it. It is a very more easily than they do in the he warns. ‘It’s quick and the purposeful EV: I like the fact Golf, reflecting the 2’s bigger kids love that instant hit of EV Rob’s perspectives are inter- you can just get in with the key footprint. But that larger size acceleration – I do too. The esting, as he is a former in your pocket and drive away.’ and chunky 78kWh battery power delivery is compelling, motoring journalist turned carry a weight handicap that but I find the ride quite brittle publisher – and he neatly sum- This calm, unflappable Scan- the handling never quite and there’s more road noise marises the Polestar’s appeal dinavian demeanour imbues than I’d like.’ with the experience of a sea- Has his test drive won his ‘I’d have one in family over from the electric a heartbeat, Mustang? ‘I think so. The Pole- but I want an star 2 is a desirable car, very EV estate car’ unintimidating and agreeable. I would order one tomorrow.’ WILL KINNEAR There’s a brilliant user interface under all those fingerprints 120 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Our Cars Can’t turn the Dog’s best Hitting the All fingers clock back friend bottle and thumbs I’ve lived with an electric or In the practicality stakes the The Mustang has been right- One of the DS’s design flourish- plug-in hybrid vehicle for the Hearse is a mixed bag. Having hand-drive in the UK since 2015 es is a handsome art-deco clock last three years. The Leaf, Zoe, just celebrated her 11th birth- but a few hangovers from its from French horologists BRM Niro, Corsa and MX-30 have all day, the evil-smelling dog is left-only roots remain. The that flips out of the top of the posed challenges of one sort or starting to creak a tad in the cupholders are to the right of dash when you switch on the another, but for day-to-day joint department, and the word the handbrake. (It’s lovely to ignition. You’ll find the same driving I’d now opt for a BEV. As ‘Hup’ now elicits a look that drive a new car with a manual R180 timepiece in the DS 7 a family, we’re a good fit for an says ‘Seriously?’ handbrake, by the way. So much Crossback, and the same smart electric car: we have off-road easier and more tactile than technology behind the parking and a domestic wall So, for dog-hopping-in pur- faffing around with a switch mid-century face that automat- charger, and we tend to follow a poses the Caddy gets a big tick and iffy auto-release functions.) ically corrects the time set of well-defined regular trips. for its low loadspace-sill height, according to the season and but its tailgate is so commensu- Once you’ve dropped in a your location in the world. The MX-30’s serenity is high- rately large that you have to couple of drinks bottles for a lighted by trips in our other car, stop reversing long before the long journey, you’re forced to I’m less enamoured by the our Seat Altea XL, complete parking sensors kick off or awkwardly reach over and engine stop-start button with whiff of dog and mossy you’ll never get it open wide around them to change gear. If I mounted underneath. It feels roof rails. Its turbodiesel is enough to let anything but were on the left, I’d be able to cheap and I often find myself alarmingly vocal. Economy and crustaceans out. And as for rest my elbow on the armrest not sure whether the car is on performance are decent, and it sliding doors: all very well from and shift gears as normal. I or off and having to get back in can swallow bicycles, dogs and outside, but, sitting in the back, suppose one solution would be to have another stab at turning children with ease. But after the you’ll need the anatomical flex- to design a console with an it off. And why is it located right near-silent Mazda, I now hate ibility of an octopus to reach electric parking-brake switch, on the top of the dash where it’s its tiring clattering soundtrack. the grab handle and shut them. ironically… a real stretch away? BEN WHITWORTH ANTHONY FFRENCH-CONSTANT JAMES TAYLOR CHRIS CHILTON Mazda MX-30 GT Volkswagen Caddy Ford Mustang DS 9 Rivoli+ Sport Tech Life SWB 1.5 TSI 114PS Mach 1 E-Tense PHEV Month 10 Month 4 Month 2 Month 2 The story so far The story so far The story so far The story so far Our time with the MX-30 is Van leftovers not always the The most powerful Mustang in DS designers put time into nearly over. Going to miss it good bits the UK, with power and handling feelgood styling details + Near-silent running is soothing + Super-low loadspace sill suits upgrades over Mustang GT + Dashtop timepiece clocking up and relaxing after noisy Altea the dog well + V8 soundtrack; sense of brownie points - Have only ever seen one other - Sliding rear-passenger doors a humour - Don’t get me started on starter MX-30 on the road faff to close from inside - £10k more than a Mustang GT button Logbook Logbook Logbook Logbook Price £32,845 (£32,845 as Price £30,406 (£31,030 as Price £56,955 (£59,705 as Price £49,200(£55,390 as tested) Performance 35.5kWh tested) Performance 1498cc tested) Performance 5038cc tested) Performance 1598cc battery, e-motor, 140bhp, 9.7sec turbocharged four-cylinder, naturally-aspirated V8, 454bhp, four-cyl, 11.9kWh battery, 0-62mph, 87mph Efficiency 3.5 113bhp, 11.9sec 0-62mph, 166mph, 4.8sec 0-62mph 222bhp, 8.3sec 0-62mph, miles per kWh (official), 3.5 miles 113mph Efficiency 42.2mpg Efficiency 22.8mpg (official), 149mph Efficiency 176.6- (tested), 0g/km CO2 Range 124 (official), 35.9mpg (tested), 25.8mpg (tested), 284g/km CO2 256.8mpg (official), 41.0mpg miles (official), 124 miles (tested) 151g/km CO2 Energy cost 19.6p Energy cost 32.8p per mile (tested), 33g/km CO2 Energy Energy cost 4.2p per mile Miles per mile Miles this month 356 Miles this month 915 Total cost 18.3p per mile Miles this this month 1183 Total 12,927 Total miles 7535 miles 9714 month 1787 Total miles 5054 AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 121

Impressive mpg Jordan Butters on motorways, but B-roads are where the chassis shines Old-school, good and bad Goodbye Jaguar has a tradition of making fine-handling, good-looking car, and this is no exception. But the rest? By Ben Oliver By coincidence, the Jaguar now but it is reasonably refined, the F-Pace broke down once Jaguar F-Pace 2.0D F-Pace was collected from my adequately punchy and on mo- and had to be recovered with a 204PS R-Dynamic SE house at the same time as its re- torway runs even grazed the thrown alternator belt, saw its Month 8 placement was delivered: a Kia bottom of its 42-45mpg official Pivi Pro infotainment system EV6. The Jag slunk away as I sat combined consumption figure. crash and freeze on numerous Jag’s best-seller wins us over in the Kia for the first time and The facelifted body and cabin occasions, developed a squeak with its ride, handling and began to familiarise myself look great, and a day spent from the steering column and long-distance chops, but loses with The Future. How hurt the testing 15 new models of all lost the plastic part on the front us again with its reliability Jag must have been, seeing its genres bookended by a of its gear selector. The latter + Design inside and out; former keeper so preoccupied commute to and from the test problems I just tolerated: I chassis; economy that he didn’t give it a second track in the Jaguar reinforced couldn’t spare the time to take - Glitchy infotainment system glance as it left. how quietly and fluidly it rides the car into the dealer, but if I’d and handles. I wondered at the been keeping it over a three- Logbook It’s not that I disliked the start of this test just how year lease deal I’d have had to. Price £48,500 (£52,940 as Jaguar. I just felt oddly neutral ‘Jaguar’ a diesel SUV would feel, tested) Performance 1997cc about it: the competence of its and whether the F-Pace could Would it put me off? Probably turbodiesel four-cylinder, 48v design and engineering bal- wear another badge just as not. I’m an optimist, JLR cars mild hybrid, 201bhp, 8.0sec anced by the mild easily. But it is distinctively a have got me into and back out 0-62mph, 130mph Efficiency incompetence with which it Jag, and the difference lies in of some remote corners of the 42-45mpg (official), 37.9mpg was bolted together. the chassis. globe reliably in the past, and (tested), 163-176g/km CO2 the F-Pace’s strong value and Energy cost 17.9p per mile Its 201bhp mild-hybrid four- Unfortunately, the other lease costs might encourage me Miles this month 1528 Total pot may feel a little old-school well-known Jaguar quality is a to take a punt. But buyers miles 13,140 lack thereof. We’re told JLR reli- shouldn’t have to make that Count the cost ability is improving, but this car calculation. A fine all-rounder won’t have helped that trend. like this ought to be an easy Cost new £52,940 Part Over its 8000 miles with me pleasure to own, not a gamble. exchange £47,170 Cost per mile 19.4p Cost per mile including depreciation 92.1p 122 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

Our Cars Room for a very agreeable way to travel in a parking bay. Hate to admit Riverdance for my nine-year-old daughter it, but I’ve become totally de- rehearsals who, on a long journey, chills pendent on those reversing out back there like royalty in beeps – unassisted parking is a VW, you’re spoiling us the back of a stretched Bentley. thing of the past for me now, like remembering telephone Pampering all round. By Mark Walton Up front the Arteon is just as numbers or reading a map. relaxing, with seats that have I’ve talked a bit about how good that size. At just over 4.86 proved very comfortable over Volkswagen Arteon R the Arteon R is, as a perfor- metres long, the Arteon Shoot- four- or five-hour journeys, and Shooting Brake mance car – find yourself alone ing Brake is halfway between there are plenty of cubbyholes Month 5 on the right road in the right Merc C- and E-Class estates; and cupholders for all the junk mood and it’s a brilliant chassis and the wheelbase of 2838mm you create on a longer drive. The story so far to start throwing hard at creates a really roomy interior. The wireless phone-charging A great all-rounder: as good at corners, despite its size. tray is the only disappointment being a family tourer as it is a The rear legroom is amazing – instead of being horizontal it Golf GTI on steroids The other side of the Arteon’s – with the front seat set for an slopes forward slightly, and + Amazing interior space for character is perhaps more pre- adult, another adult can sit in when I put my iPhone 13 Mini in the whole family dictable: this big estate car, not the back like they’re flying BA it slides down on the rubber - It’s a big old bus to park in a surprisingly, also makes a great Business Class, with 30cm of liner, falling off the wire- modern multi-storey family wagon. A big factor is leg/knee room. This makes for less-charging sweet spot. Logbook First-world problem, I know, Price £54,435 (£62,282 as but you’d think VW would have tested) Performance 1984cc spotted that flaw. turbo four-cyl, 316bhp, 4.9sec 0-62mph, 155mph Efficiency In terms of on-board tech, 30.6mpg (official), 29.9mpg ours is fitted with an head-up (tested), 209g/km CO2 Energy display (£550) which projects cost 25.8p per mile Miles this onto a blade of glass that slides month 1155 Total miles 3946 up out of the dash, rather than directly onto the windscreen; and in the Assistance Pack (£330) you get Park Assist with a top-down view, showing where you’re lining this big blue bus up Unexpected fun alert! blame the VW’s tyre roar. And aside from that car’s Not just good value. By Ben Pulman bigger battery (which you can Skoda Enyaq iV 60 The Enyaq is massive on the honesty and clarity to the way a spec in the Skoda) I can’t see any Month 6 inside, able to swallow our two Skoda goes down the road, and reason not to opt for the Enyaq. young children and our two our Enyaq is no different. It’s As tested, it’s £38k to the plushly The story so far prams with ease. But aside from also seemingly quieter and optioned VW’s £54k (and £5k Skoda’s first electric car the practicality, it’s also decent more refined than its VW ID.4 apart if you’re like-for-like on continues to impress, both as to drive. sibling, which visited for a back- the enlarged battery), but if an EV and as family transport to-back comparison recently; your family are just going to + Cost-per-mile figures are very It’s a two-tonne estate-cum- ruin it anyway, then the Skoda kind on the wallet SUV, so you might not assume is both bigger and better value. - Unreliable infotainment it would drive well. But without system a need to be sporty like an Audi, And in and knowing that Skoda the blue Logbook owners probably aren’t interest- corner… Price £34,510 (£38,195 as ed in switchable driving modes tested) Performance 62kWh or rock-hard suspension, the battery, e-motor, 177bhp, engineers seem to have just got 8.4sec 0-62mph, 124mph on and made a thoroughly re- Efficiency 4.0 miles per kWh spectable car. (official), 2.6 miles per kWh (tested), 0g/km CO2 Range The ride is supple, it controls 256 miles (official), 205 miles its roll well, and the steering (tested) Energy cost 2.0p per weight and response are mile Miles this month 491 spot-on too. There’s always an Total miles 7953 AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 123

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HOW DOES NEW GBU WORK? Constantly updated, new GBU covers eight of 16 classes in each issue, and we list all our class kings The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: The Top 5s TOP 5 SUB-£400pcm PHEVS Makes you look GIANT twice; and TEST actually worth WINNER a second look PEUGEOT 308 GIANT THE GOOD: Bravely avant-garde TEST design; decent fuel economy; WINNER rewarding to drive; different THE BAD: What’s with Peugeot’s jousting-shield badge redesign? THE UGLY: Interior layout looks fab but is a stressfest to use in real life THE ONE TO BUY: Starts below £300pcm. Worth stretching to the top 225 version at around £410pcm if you fancy it – it’s a better drive SKODA FORD KUGA MINI AUDI A3 OCTAVIA iV PHEV COUNTRYMAN SPORTBACK THE GOOD: Usual THE GOOD: Kit; THE GOOD: Rapid THE GOOD: Octavia strengths space; impressive 34- (0-62mph in 6.2sec); Handsome, gadget- (roomy, quality cabin) mile range in EV mode quality interior; made stuffed hatch with plus 34-mile EV range THE BAD: Firm ride in the UK? useful electric range THE BAD: Costs and on sport suspension; THE BAD: Er, no, THE BAD: S-Line weighs more than limited trim options for it’s made in the looks best but has a non-hybrid versions PHEV versions Netherlands; no fast- knobbly ride; go for THE UGLY: Well, THE UGLY: Looks charge capability the Sport trim instead ugly’s a bit harsh, but more bloated hatch THE UGLY: PHEV THE UGLY: 18-inch it’s not exactly catwalk than SUV; not Puma- version is pricey; can’t wheels knock e-range material grade fun match Kuga’s EV from 40 to 37 miles THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: ability THE ONE TO BUY: Fully loaded SE L is ST-Line trim just THE ONE TO BUY: A3 40 TFSI Sport with £400pcm/£28,555 (or comes in on-budget at Base-spec Classic Comfort+Sound pack £27,475 for the hatch) £400pcm only option on budget does it all for £400pcm Use “CARMOT” for full car servicing with a free MoT test at MotorEasy.com AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 125

TOP 5 £400pcm+ PHEVS Come for the range, stay for the speed GIANT BIG BMW X5 45e TEST SELLER THE GOOD: Massive 54-mile WINNER official EV range; horizon-eating 5.5sec 0-62mph performance; great interior and infotainment system THE BAD: Hybrid hardware cuts boot space by 150 litres; no seven-seat option THE UGLY: Enough off-road skill for most but batteries spoil handling THE ONE TO BUY: Almost all Brits go for showy M Sport and its 20-inch wheels: £71k/£900pcm GIANT TEST WINNER PORSCHE VW GOLF BMW MERCEDES-BENZ CAYENNE HYBRID GTE 330e C300e THE GOOD: Handling; THE GOOD: Hey, it’s THE GOOD: Goes THE GOOD: badge; driver focus; like a Golf GTI with sub-six to 62mph and Stunning interior choice of coupe or bigger mpg and lower up to 41 electric miles borrows heavily from SUV bodies, both with emissions! on a charge S-Class with giant 456bhp; 0-62mph in THE BAD: It’s like a THE BAD: Engine is portrait touchscreen; 5.0sec Golf GTI without any of slightly coarse; plain incredible 62-mile THE BAD: Bigger the traction or sparkle 330i is less heavy, range does too battery from 2021 but THE UGLY: more fun THE BAD: Beats the EV range is still a poor Mechanically similar THE UGLY: Hybrid kit tax man but can’t beat 25-27 miles Skoda Octavia vRS eats into boot space BMW 330e in the THE UGLY: Stingy PHEV is stronger on so regular 3s are bends for pace and spec: add £2k for value roomier enjoyment adaptive cruise and THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: THE UGLY: That lane assist Base car used to dip Choice of saloon pesky BMW also beats THE ONE TO BUY: under £400pcm but or estate (Touring). it in the boot-space If you value the U in currently you’ll need Handsome, vaguely stakes SUV, steer clear of the at least £430; and affordable 330e M THE ONE TO BUY: coupe – even if it is a maybe budget extra Sport Touring comes Go for an estate in great car to steer for decent wheels in at £530 tasty AMG Line trim ABSOLUTE POWER I Most excessive plug-in this side of an SF90? AMG has just set its 831bhp/1034lb ft GT63 hybrid loose on an unsuspecting autobahn. Not green, but is epic Use “CARMOT” for full car servicing with a free MoT test at MotorEasy.com

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly TOP 5 BEST SPORTS CARS GIANT GROUP GIANT TEST TEST TEST WINNER WINNER WINNER PORSCHE ARIEL PORSCHE LOTUS ALPINE 911 ATOM 718 EMIRA A110 THE GOOD: Style, THE GOOD: THE GOOD: THE GOOD: First THE GOOD: The like 911s, never goes Thrilling, and a Sublime handling; new Lotus in years perfectly formed out of fashion beautiful object. surprising is fantastic. Usable, antidote to excess. THE BAD: Even the Modernised Lotus practicality desirable, thrilling A modern classic in base Carrera costs Seven meets high- THE BAD: Less THE BAD: Harder every sense more than £87k; end sports bike characterful than work to live with THE BAD: Hard road noise up to 11 THE BAD: You’ll an Alpine; such an than a Cayman work on a long trip; THE UGLY: To need bike-style wet- obvious choice it’s THE UGLY: The last nowhere in the some, it’s now more weather wear. And almost boring petrol Lotus – just cabin to put things comfy GT than at least £40k – this THE UGLY: Flat-four as the company THE UGLY: Who sports car; canny is an expensive toy versions sound like gets the financial put the handbrake options list pushes THE UGLY: a VW Beetle in a stability to build on switch next to the you to spend more Borderline terrifying duet with Eeyore its brilliance window buttons? THE ONE TO BUY: at times THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: Carrera S with Sport THE ONE TO BUY: 718 Cayman GTS Could be the sub- Sub-£50k base A110 Chrono pack, from Do you really 4.0 is a cut-price £60k four-cylinder is all you need, but S £102k (before you need the 350bhp GT4 at £68k, or turbo version that’s adds handling poise add more options) upgrade option? £679 a month coming next year for £10k TOP 5 BEST SUPERCARS PCM (per calendar month) figures are typical prices for PCP (personal contract purchase) deals available at the time of writing. For guidance only GIANT GIANT TEST TEST WINNER WINNER FERRARI PORSCHE McLAREN FERRARI LAMBORGHINI 296 GTB 911 GT3 720S SF90 STRADALE HURACAN STO THE GOOD: THE GOOD: Spine- THE GOOD: A THE GOOD: THE GOOD: Timeless styling tingling sound; game-changing Fascinating tech, Imagine if and a driving 9000rpm redline; supercar, from its long-distance Lamborghini experience worthy total immersion sinuous design to cruising ability, made a trackday of Maranello’s finest THE BAD: Nothing otherworldly pace warp-speed pace car? Oh wait, it THE BAD: You to see here THE BAD: Almost THE BAD: Plug-in does. Breathlessly need reflexes like a THE UGLY: Getting too fast for the road hybrid hardware exhilarating, sushi- fighter pilot to drive on the waiting list THE UGLY: takes up most of the raw V10 soundtrack it as fast as it can go to actually buy one. Reputation for luggage space THE BAD: THE UGLY: File Like winning both fragile reliability THE UGLY: Getting Torturously hard the faux open-gate The X Factor and THE ONE TO BUY: beaten away from work on the road gear selector under The Apprentice Since there’s so the lights in e-mode THE UGLY: ‘cheesy’ THE ONE TO BUY: much strength in THE ONE TO BUY: Playschool-spec THE ONE TO BUY: PDK nice for traffic the chassis, the Choose between sticker kit (which is Fiorano pack is jams and lap Spyder gives away fixed-head coupe optional, mercifully) £25k+ overkill away records. But come little dynamically and open-top THE ONE TO BUY: from the track; keep on – it’s got to be and adds open-air Aperta. Both are There’s just one: your 296 road-spec a manual intensity wonderful £260k AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 127

THE BONUS FIVE FRUGAL REAR-DRIVE FUN Four affordable 2WD heroes, and one with 1WD, to make this summer sizzle TOYOTA GT86 (USED) ‘IT’S DONE EVERYTHING’ THE GOOD: Low weight, low cost, low grip, low, big fun GT86 OWNER THE BAD: Low power, coarse LEE GROOM engine when thrashed ‘I’ve been a fan since THE UGLY: Naff infotainment, the FT-HS concept in especially on pre-facelift cars 2007 and bought my THE ONE TO BUY: Facelift gets facelift GT86 Pro new stiffened shell, tweaked chassis in 2017. It’s now on 26k and has done BMW 120i (USED) everything from commuting to tip runs, THE GOOD: A sweet-handling and even my first rear-drive hatch with three doors? trackday. It was so Truly a mythical creature communicative round THE BAD: Front-drive rivals have Donington that it really more space in back. So-so pace helped build my THE UGLY: Five doors, small rims confidence, and even THE ONE TO BUY: Engine went at a lanky 6ft 3in I’m from 1.6 to 2.0 in 2016 – from £16k still comfortable in a crash helmet.’ MAZDA MX-5 (USED) TAKE GOOD CARE > ‘RRG Toyota in THE GOOD: Mk3 is affordable to Macclesfield do all the buy and run, with easy fabric roof servicing and have a THE BAD: Gained weight over reputation for looking Mk1 and 2, and lost some tactility after performance THE UGLY: Soft handling can be Toyotas – well worth tricky at limit the drive from Bristol THE ONE TO BUY: 2009 facelift each time! For improved chassis and steering anything that crops up closer to home – tyres, CATERHAM SEVEN alignment – I use FCM Motorsport.’ THE GOOD: Soul of a motorcycle, CHOICE UPGRADES strong residuals > ‘I’ve added Enkei THE BAD: Safety, practicality, RPF01 17-inch alloys comfort, tech with Michelin PS4 THE UGLY: Four words: heavy tyres for a smidge rain, night drive more grip, and Tein THE ONE TO BUY: Buying used? Flex A coilovers K-series Superlight a king transform comfort and handling. Biggest MORGAN 3-WHEELER improvement is the (USED) Tuning Developments NA Tuning Package, THE GOOD: Biggles fun factor which removes the THE BAD: Wet weather. torque dip almost Understeer. Especially wet- completely and gives weather understeer a little more power.’ THE UGLY: Earliest cars had teething troubles Low-set boxer THE ONE TO BUY: Go post-2014 engine key to 86’s dynamics 128 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

TOP 5 BEST SUVs The Good, the Bad & the Ugly GIANT TEST WINNER Suave like LAND ROVER DEFENDER Ralph Fiennes; THE GOOD: All-new reboot brings capable like untold dynamic improvements on Ranulph Fiennes road and off it; gorgeous THE BAD: Second-row access is a pain in the 90; expensive THE UGLY: Alternatives to the white steel wheels are offered. Why? THE ONE TO BUY: Range spans 90, 110 and now 130 bodies, plus diesels, petrols and a plug-in hybrid. Heart says petrol V8, head and wallet say glorious diesel six, from £59k/£700pcm in D250 90 form GIANT TEST WINNER PORSCHE ASTON MARTIN MERCEDES ALPINA MACAN DBX G-CLASS XD3 THE GOOD: Handles THE GOOD: Glorious THE GOOD: Truly epic THE GOOD: Is this better than any other noise; masterful off-road; retro styling the best all-rounder SUV. And more than a chassis balance; will age well/is already money can buy? few hot hatches too rear-axle bias aged Certainly the fastest THE BAD: Hardly an THE BAD: Fiddly and THE BAD: Side- diesel SUV money original choice – but outdated infotainment opening boot can buy (though that’s then there’s good from an old Merc door a nuisance at a dubious honour to reason for that drags the cabin down; the supermarket; some) THE UGLY: People ‘The name’s Bond, resolutely un-green THE BAD: Its heart might think you’ve Dadbod Bond’ image yearns for the bought the four-pot THE UGLY: How you’ll THE UGLY: autobahn, and you can (still a good car) feel when you meet Influencers will scratch only give it the A1(M) THE ONE TO BUY: someone with the your bonnet taking THE UGLY: Cleaning Starts at £51k. The hotter 707 version selfies those wheels on the 434bhp V6 £69k THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: weekend. All weekend Macan GTS is the Just give up avocado AMG V8-powered THE ONE TO BUY: sportiest, but 375bhp toast and get the G63 if you play up One version, many V6 Macan S is the DBX 707. Worth it for front or on the wing; options, potential everyday sweet spot 697bhp G400 for the back four £80,000 total OR A MUSTANG MACH-E GT? I Ford’s electric SUV does 0-62mph in less time than it takes your neighbour to say ‘That’s not a proper Mustang’. Plus, usable back seats AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 129

TOP 5 BEST SMALL HATCHES GROUP BIG EV EV TEST FUN OPTION OPTION WINNER PEUGEOT FORD RENAULT VW BMW 208 FIESTA CLIO UP i3 THE GOOD: Style; THE GOOD: Magic THE GOOD: THE GOOD: THE GOOD: Still big-car character; handling; sales- Renault’s given Getting on a bit, but looks fresh, with an knockout interior; smash popularity its baby hatch a just so good at what interior nicer than EV version available not by accident beautiful interior... it does most houses THE BAD: So-so THE BAD: Not the THE BAD: ...but THE BAD: Pricey for THE BAD: Titchy handling; a squash comfiest of cars; didn’t bother a city car; resembles range; twitchy for adult rear-seat interior has a whiff changing the a milk carton on its handling; not a passengers of Fisher Price outside from the side; badge’s silly roaring success THE UGLY: about it last-generation Clio. exclamation mark financially for BMW Dumping the wheel THE UGLY: Still handsome, THE UGLY: Now THE UGLY: It’ll be in your lap like a TV Low-rent interior though only available with replaced soon by dinner to see the unchanged in THE UGLY: People a wheezy 1.0 litre, or the far duller iX1 dials clearly recent facelift; grille might think you’ve as a GTI THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: was, needlessly bought the old one THE ONE TO S version is fast but Range from £19k, THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: BUY: Starts at adds little tangible but get the 100bhp 1.0-litre EcoBoost a TCe 90 petrol £13,940/£180pcm, fun for the money; petrol at just over good fit for most, at manual – expect to or £17,645 for the regular 120Ah i3 £20k/£250pcm around £270pcm pay £210pcm GTI; or buy used from £390pcm TOP 5 BEST FAMILY HATCHES GIANT GIANT TEST TEST WINNER WINNER BMW VOLKSWAGEN MAZDA FORD MERCEDES 1-SERIES GOLF 3 FOCUS A-CLASS THE GOOD: THE GOOD: Brain- THE GOOD: THE GOOD: Ford THE GOOD: More Premium and out default choice Pretty, non-turbo still knows how to tech than an Apple practical; now still a solid all- alternative definitely make the mundane Store; punchy available in GTI- rounder. Great ride, listens to indie family hatch shake engines alike Ti spec visibility, roominess music; fun to drive a tail feather. A THE BAD: More THE BAD: Purists THE BAD: Seat THE BAD: Having genuinely fun car tech than an Apple droning on about Leon offers a very to explain why. THE BAD: Strangely Store; visibility rear-wheel drive similar package for Every. Single. Time mean-spirited issues THE UGLY: Can a lower price THE UGLY: Being dashboard places THE UGLY: Not as BMW spot a good- THE UGLY: Getting humiliated for everything just out good as a 1-series. looking car, let caught publicly torque by base- of reach, seemingly Deal with it alone design one? raging at the spec diesels (and by on purpose THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: infotainment system steep hills) THE UGLY: Trying All models start 1.5-litre 118i M Sport THE ONE TO THE ONE TO BUY: to actually buy one above £30k list is the sweet spot of BUY: 1.5 TSI 150 Kit-packed 2.0 #chipcrisis price. 1.4-litre petrol the regular range. at £279pcm or Skyactiv-X SE-L THE ONE TO BUY: A200 AMG Line AWD M135i super- £26,560; estate is Lux is £26,265 or 1.0-litre 125 Titanium Edition does it all hatch tops the tree also great value around £314pcm is keen and posh (except ride well) Use “CARMOT” for full car servicing with a free MoT test at MotorEasy.com

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly TOP 5 BEST HOT HATCHES This is as GROUP much fun TEST as it looks WINNER TOYOTA GR YARIS THE GOOD: Toyota’s made the kind of rally-rep homologation special we thought was gone forever THE BAD: Road noise like being at a death-metal gig. Bring earplugs THE UGLY: Waiting list longer than an Andrex multipack; don’t be fobbed off with a GT Sport THE ONE TO BUY: Opt for the Circuit pack for locking diffs, from £35k. No sat-nav, though. Luckily there’s CarPlay GIANT TEST WINNER FORD AUDI AMG VW FIESTA ST RS3 A45 S GOLF R THE GOOD: Most tail- THE GOOD: As fun to THE GOOD: Rapid THE GOOD: All-wheel happy Ford since the drive as it is fast, in any pace, rabid character; drive, drift mode and Mk2 Escort. A little tike weather. Five cylinders a bomb of an engine; 316bhp in a package of a car THE BAD: A Golf- drift mode’s a gas that gels better than THE BAD: Interior by based hatch (or small THE BAD: the GTI Little Tikes saloon) that costs over Information-overload THE BAD: No manual THE UGLY: Double- 50 grand interior; always- gearbox option (but vision-inducing ride THE UGLY: Shunty on edginess can the DSG is fine) comfort gets boring gearbox turns be wearying for THE UGLY: Mk8 fast when you’re not passengers into passengers Golf infotainment is on a great road nodding dogs around THE UGLY: A sub-optimal (for which THE ONE TO BUY: town; ‘Torque Rear’ (ie hatchback that costs read ‘bloody irritating’), Only version now is drift mode) feels a bit the thick end of 60 however good the rest the five-door ST-3, odd – best tried on the grand – you really of the car is which includes the track, not the road have to want one THE ONE TO BUY: excellent Performance THE ONE TO BUY: THE ONE TO BUY: Hatch (five-doors only) pack (with Quaife Saloon looks slick but Only the A45 S from £42k/£440pcm, limited-slip diff) – £27k five-door Sportback is version in the UK, at or there’s the estate at very well spent more usable £58k/£770pcm £45k/£510pcm LIFE WITH A FIESTA ST I Deputy features editor James Taylor: ‘I ran an ST as a long-termer for six months. It was a joy, only downsides being toboggan-spec ride and oil-tanker turning circle’ AUGUST 2022 | CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK 131

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly OUR REIGNING CLASS KINGS Buying a car? Check it’s one of our top picks THIS MONTH BEST BEST BEST BEST SUB-£400pcm PHEV £400pcm+ PHEV SPORTS CAR SUPERCAR PEUGEOT 308 BMW X5 45e PORSCHE 911 FERRARI 296 GTB Design makes you look twice; Smooth, soothing, practical, If the GT3’s too hardcore, the Plugging in hasn’t meant actually worth a second look and rapid too Carrera is anything but losing the magic. Far from it BEST SUV/CROSSOVER BEST BEST BEST HOT LAND ROVER SMALL HATCH FA M I LY H ATCH H ATC H DEFENDER PEUGEOT 208 BMW 1-SERIES TOYOTA GR YARIS Doesn’t ruin the original’s legacy. Adds lifestyle appeal Premium-car feel and interior Yes, it’s gone front-wheel Cult car of the moment, with style in a teeny, chic package drive. Still fun, now has space substance to match the hype NEXT MONTH BEST LUXURY CAR BEST BEST SPORTS BEST BE NTLE Y FLYING GT SALOON COUPE/CABRIO SPUR FERRARI ROMA BMW M3/M4 BMW 2-SERIES Epic interior; a joy whether you’re up front or in the back Beautifully balanced design, Bewitching front-end grip and Pick the M240i version for a and a drive to match balance. Utterly stellar miniaturised M4 BEST SUB-£400pcm BEST £400pcm+ BEST BEST FAMILY CAR FAMILY CAR £400pcm+ EV SUB-£400pcm EV PORSCHE MACAN BMW 5-SERIES PORSCHE TAYCAN POLESTAR 2 A great drive not just for an Still the de facto big Now a bigger seller than the Makes the transition to EV SUV but by any standards saloon/estate choice 911 – and deservedly so seem like a smart choice 132 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK | AUGUST 2022

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