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Kia EV2 Review: Kia’s Cheapest EV Feels Surprisingly Grown-Up

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The Kia EV2 is the brand’s smallest and cheapest electric car, offering up to 275 miles of range from £24,245. We test the predicted bestselling GT-Line to see whether its big-car maturity makes it the small EV to beat

The Kia EV2 is the smallest and cheapest electric car the Korean manufacturer sells in Britain. That usually means a worthy little urban runabout built to a price, with the interior ambience of a bare cupboard  and unpainted bumpers. But the EV2 has other ideas. It arrives with the upright stance, bold lighting and visual confidence of something at least one size larger – and a couple of grades more expensive.

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Your Car Is Spying on You! What Your New Car Knows About You

Your next new car could know where you went last night, how quickly you accelerated, how hard you braked, which phone you paired with it and whether your eyes were actually on the road

Here is something rather important that is probably buried three menus deep in your next car. Actually, scrub that: it may already be buried three menus deep in your current car, somewhere between the ambient-lighting colour selector and the setting that makes the dashboard bong furiously because you dared to glance at the heater controls it forced onto a touchscreen in the first place.

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My New Book – Silent Ruin – First in a New Jamshed Khan Series, Out Now!

From comic book to full-blown international thriller, this Jamshed Khan reboot is a story that’s been 30 years in the making

A relentless chase. A deadly secret. No way out. That’s the promise at the heart of Silent Ruin, my brand-new international spy thriller and the first in a new series featuring Jamshed Khan. This is a character I originally created over three decades ago, now reborn into a far more grown-up, high-stakes world of espionage, danger, and consequence.

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I Don’t Want to Make You Eat Halal Meat or Wear a Hijab

In the wake of anti-Muslim violence and racist unrest in Britain, a personal plea to stop swallowing propaganda and start seeing each other as human beings

I do not want to convert you to Islam.

I do not want to conquer you. I do not want to enforce Shariah law in Britain. I do not want to make all women wear burqas, force halal meat down your throat, groom your daughters, change your language, erase your culture, turn your churches into mosques, or ban pork and alcohol.

And, for the avoidance of any doubt, terrorism, murder, violence, maiming innocent people and killing children are abhorrent, evil and utterly indefensible.

Yet I am a practising Muslim.

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Legacy Car Brands Are Making a HUGE Mistake

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Car companies are obsessing over EV product while forgetting the brand heritage, emotional loyalty and lifelong connection that could actually save them

At a recent event, I was chatting to somebody who works within the legacy car industry. It doesn’t matter which manufacturer, because this relates to the industry as a whole – it’s something bigger, broader and potentially catastrophic for the entire car industry. What this person told me was that, in terms of marketing and PR budgets, their focus now is very much on product rather than brand. And I understand why. These companies have cars to sell, EV targets to hit, emissions legislation to satisfy, ZEV mandates to survive, shareholders to soothe and showroom traffic to somehow summon from the ether. But I also think this strategy could be a fundamental, frightening and potentially fatal mistake.

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Car Design: BMW Gets It. Audi Pivots. Mercedes Is Clueless

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Has Ferrari’s biggest design misstep in decades accidentally made BMW and Audi look smarter than ever?

The Ferrari Luce may prove to be one of the most important car designs of recent years, not because it is revolutionary, not because it is beautiful, and certainly not because it has been universally admired. Quite the opposite. The reaction to Ferrari’s first electric car has been so overwhelmingly negative that it may have inadvertently transformed how enthusiasts view every major design reveal that has followed it. That sounds absurd, but bear with me.

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MG IM5 Performance AWD Review: Porsche Taycan Pace for Half the Price?

MG IM5 Review
With 742bhp, four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and charging speeds that border on the unbelievable, the MG IM5 promises supercar performance for family-car money. Surely there must be a catch?

Let’s get one thing straight right from the outset. This is not the MG you think it is. Forget bargain hatchbacks. Forget sensible family SUVs. Forget everything you know about MG because the IM5 is operating on an entirely different plane. In fact, if somebody covered the badges and asked you to guess what this was, I suspect very few people would say MG. And to be fair it does look generic Chinese EV. But here’s what you need to know: this thing is utterly bonkers.

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20MPH Everywhere to Save Money on Road Signs?! You Couldn’t Make It Up!

A proposal discussed at Westminster suggests expanding blanket 20mph limits because it could save money on signs and administration. Sensible safety measure, or a triumph of bureaucracy over common sense?

Every now and then a story emerges from the corridors of Westminster that makes you stop, put down your tea, rub your eyes and double-check that you haven’t accidentally wandered onto a parody website. This was one of those moments. According to evidence submitted to the House of Commons Transport Committee by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, better known as PACTS, one argument for introducing more blanket 20mph speed limits is that doing so could reduce the need for additional signs, consultations, traffic orders and all the associated administrative clutter that accompanies modern transport policy. In other words, if I’ve understood this correctly, one of the reasons millions of motorists could find themselves travelling more slowly is because road signs are apparently becoming a bit expensive.

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Enfield Pageant of Motoring 2026: The Maddest, Coolest & Most Brilliant Cars We Found!

2026 Enfield Pageant Videos! | Mad Builds, Cool Classics & Muscle Cars | BrownCarGuy
From 194mph Bonnevile-bound Jensens to chopped V8 Vauxhalls, hot rods, rat rods and roaring Merlin engines, the Enfield Pageant delivered automotive chaos in the best possible way

The 2026 Enfield Pageant of Motoring turned out to be an absolute treasure trove of weird, wonderful and wildly creative machinery, reminding us why grassroots car culture remains far more entertaining than yet another identikit crossover launch with mood lighting and an app subscription for heated seats. This year’s event was packed with everything from beautifully preserved classics to utterly unhinged custom creations, including a chopped and Audi-powered Vauxhall Victor FB, stunning American cruisers, rat-look survivors proudly wearing decades of scars, and hot rods that looked ready to drag race Satan himself.

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Why Do All New Cars Look the Same?

Modern SUVs, EVs and crossovers may be faster, safer and more efficient than ever before, but somewhere along the way many cars lost the character, identity and eccentricity that once made us fall in love with them

There was a time when even children could identify cars instantly. In fact, I was one of those annoying little kids who could recognise a car from half a mile away, at night, purely from the headlights. A Jaguar XJS looked like a Jaguar XJS. A Saab looked like a Saab. A Citroen looked like it had arrived from the future after taking a wrong turn somewhere near the Eiffel Tower.

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