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  Porsche has revealed the GT4 E-Performance, an EV race car that hints at what the all-electric next-generation Cayman will be like. Based on the chassis of a  Porsche Cayman GT4 RS  Clubsport with parts from the  Porsche 911 RSR GTE  car, the GT4 E-Performance predates the previously revealed  Porsche Mission R Concept  but shares a number of components, including the electric motors and battery technology. In full-blown qualifying mode, the GT4 E-Performance is capable of producing 1072bhp, with power delivered through a motor on each axle. However, power can be wound down to 603bhp to conserve charge for around 30 minutes - the length of a current Porsche Carrera Cup race. A 900V fast-charging system allows the 82kWh batteries to be replenished by 75% in just 15 minutes, while a bespoke oil cooling system regulates the temperature and helps ensure that the car produces a consistent power output over time. Due to the addition of the battery and elec...

  The range-topping Land Rover Range Rover recently got a major overhaul, and now it's time for the smaller, more athletic Range Rover Sport model to see some changes. The biggest news with  the 2023 Range Rover Sport  is its new electrification. North America will get four powertrain options at launch, with a fifth, fully electric Range Rover Sport in the cards for 2024. Until then, customers will have a choice of two mild-hybrid powertrains, a plug-in hybrid model, and if you don't want any of that electric business, you can still opt for a twin-turbo V-8. Electrified Power The electric revolution has smacked into the new Sport hard, offering plenty of performance at each price point, built on Land Rover's flexible MLA chassis architecture. The P360 mild hybrid, built around the company's Ingenium 3.0-liter I-6 motor, is tuned to 355 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque, and the P400 mild hybrid is tuned to 395 hp and 406 lb-ft. The Range Rover Sport P440e Autobiography...

  Have you noticed recently, when walking or driving the city streets after dark, how many windows are lit up not the colour of halogen but any lurid combination of red/blue/green? Suddenly, coloured LEDs are everywhere, seemingly mostly installed by young people. The reason I bring this up is because of the dashboard in the new  Mercedes-Benz C-Class Estate  that has just arrived at our door in the UK. The entire thing has ambient backlighting, even including the air vents, along with the rear door handle panels and the little panel in the roof. You can choose from a myriad of colour schemes (we liked soft pink best) through the giant new touchscreen, which has supplanted almost all of the physical controls. This is endemic of the priorities that seem to now lie behind not just the new junior executive  Mercedes-Benz  but the car industry as a whole, reflecting a trend in wider society. Technology is the name of the game. A survey a few years ago found tha...

  What you're looking at is a recreation of the 1965 Bizzarrini 5300 GT, but because it's made by the people who now own the rights to the Bizzarrini name, it can be more properly considered a continuation car. Just 24 will be built and each will cost £1.65 million before extras. Which is a lot. Then again, the Bizzarrini name is one of the most enigmatic in automotive history and, had the breaks fallen only slightly differently, could now be up there with  Ferrari  and  Lamborghini . And to understand the car then and now, you must first understand just a little about. Giotto Bizzarrini is one of the most remarkable people this industry has ever produced. Among his claims to fame include being chief engineer of the legendary  Ferrari 250 SWB , the chief architect of the even more revered 250 GTO and the designer of the V12 engine that powered every 12-cylinder Lamborghini from the company’s launch in 1963 to the end of the  Murciélago  in 20...

  The idea is a simple one: make a more premium and desirable coupé body shape out of a hatchback. That’s what   Hyundai   set out to achieve in 2018 with the launch of the   i30 Fastback , a sleeker five-door liftback version of the   i30   hatchback that tried to replicate the success Mercedes-Benz has had in morphing an A-Class into a CLA. However sleek it might look and interesting the proposition might be, the idea hasn’t really set the world alight or prompted a whole raft of imitations from rival firms (when they all start making their own, you know you’re really onto something…). Yet it remains a stylish option and a welcome niche in a sea of family similar hatchbacks. The i30 Fastback was refreshed just over a year ago and the range simplified at the same time. The car is available in the sporty N Line trim only and with a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine available with either a six-speed manual or seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox...

  It’s been an eventful time for Yorkshire-based Land Rover Defender modifier Twisted Automotive. When last we checked in on them, in 2018, they’d not long launched their first Chevy-powered   Twisted V8   model. They have since been   sued by Land Rover   - twice - over trademark infringement, and won both times. But neither that nor the wider business challenges of the past few years has held up the firm’s expansion much. There are now Twisted-modified Defenders being sold under licence in the UAE and the US, and the firm has new UK dealerships in Kensington, west London, and Salcombe, Devon, to go with its headquarters in Thirsk. Of the 240 last-off-the-line Defender Commercials that Twisted founder Charles Fawcett bought up back in 2016 (and if LR had a problem with his business model, which was already well established by that time, you might wonder why it sold them to him), apparently only 40 ‘new’ chassis remain as a departure point for anyone w...