All news by author: Rob Gill

WE love our two weeks of summer.Pub gardens. Barbecues. Festivals. Getting back to nature. Camper vans. All of that good stuff.The problem with the la

YOU might think an open-top McLaren supercar that’s also an EV sounds expensive.Wait until you hear about the Louis Vuitton jewellery party go

WHAT do you do when something isn’t working?You switch it off and then back on again.Wifi, phone, even your car.And if your car company freezes, do

NAME a car with more choice than a Kellogg’s Variety Pack?OK, I’ll tell you.Skoda’s Kodiaq.Five seats or seven.Front-wheel drive or AWD.Petrol,

SMALL van. Pick-up truck. JCB digger.Three everyday heroes that keep Britain running.Partly because they are brilliant at what they do.But mostly beca

PUT a £25million classic car through a hot wash and this is what happens.It SHRINKS.This utterly gorgeous Bentley Blower is an 85 per cent scale recr

ONE in five electric cars is a Tesla – and I’ve got a good idea why.Not only does a Tesla do the miles it says it will, no one can compete with Te

HIGH there. It’s me. Sat on top of a 249ft wind turbine like a trainee Fred Dibnah.It’s wet and windy up here. Properly windy.The turbine is swayi

EVERY so often a new kind of car comes along. For a while it’s unique, and then the showrooms and roads get choked with rivals.This time it’s the

LIKE everything about Kia’s EV9 except its size and price?Sorted.Here’s EV3. Half the size. Half the price. Yet filled with 100 per cent Kia goodn

WE all thought BYD was the Chinese Tesla.Apparently not.Every BYD on our roads today — we’re up to three models already — is 100 per cent electr

HERE’S the littlest Jeep with the littlest price tag.It’s a plain petrol Avenger with a manual gearbox costing £23,859.It’ll nudge 50mpg.If you

IF I was a betting man I’d put money on Ford ending the year as a van maker first — and a car maker second.Every size of Transit is getting some l

LIKE the northern white rhino, the £20k new car is close to extinction.So when another one comes along, its sales chances have got to be strong.Provi

THIS is important work. Seriously it is.We dug a little pothole — much like the one on your street — to see if a Dacia Duster could climb out in o

THE old Vauxhall Grandland? Poundland. This new one? Very Grandland.Here are five things you need to know about the poshest, most sophisticated Vauxha

WE’RE supposed to be best buddies with America, aren’t we?We send them Bentleys, Adele and English tea.They send us Teslas, Taylor Swift and KFC.Y

ELECTRIC cars, eh? If you’re not worried about how far they’ll go, you’re worried about the time it takes to recharge.And if not that, then you

WHEN the missus walks in with a new haircut you’re supposed to notice it.You’re supposed to be gushy and say: “That looks nice. Money well spent

HERE’S a black cab sprinkled with magic dust swept up from the Rolls-Royce factory floor.It’s called the Lexus LM — luxury mover — and it’s

KIA we go! Kia’s EV9 has won the World Cup for cars.Much like the footie World Cup, EV9 had to see off some big players in the knockout stages of th

HERE’S the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for . . . ONE MILLION DOLLARS.Classic Dr Evil, arch-enemy of Austin Powers.He

THE new Fiat 600 is surely a record- breaker.I can’t think of any car, now or in the past, with as many nametags on it.You’ll see “600” plaste

GOODBYE Fiesta. Hello MG3. Ford left a Fiesta-sized hole by killing off Britain’s favourite car.Everyone but Ford seems to know this was a bad idea.

WHEN is a Mini no longer a Mini?When it’s big enough to pick on a Range Rover Evoque?When it costs £40k?When you can fit a classic Mini in the glov