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NEWS
Mercedes EQE Electric i4 r ival i s star of Munich show 6 Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 Hot luxury EV packs 751bhp 8 Mercedes EQG G-Class 4x4 set to get four e-motors 10 Audi Grandsphere High-tech 4dr GT to replace A8 12 Cupra Urban Rebel Entry-level crossover due 2025 14 Porsche Mission R EV racer hints at electric Cayman 16 Ford Focus ST Facelifted hot hatch spotted testing 18 Four Lotus EVs Two SUVs, 4dr coupé, sports car 20 Electric car servicing How workshops need to adapt 22
TESTED
BMW iX3 All-electric take on existing popular SUV 28 Nio ES8 Seven-seat SUV sets sights on Jag I-Pace 30 Ssangyong Tivoli Plus Toyota Land Cruiser LWB van 31 Cupra Leon 310 VZ3 Estate ROAD TEST 32
FEATURES Genesis GV70 vs Audi Q5 There’s a new kid in town 40 How the Good Guys win The specialists who f ix EVs 46 Touring Arese RH95 Exquisite V8 Italian supercar 48 The great Catesby A wind tunnel you drive through 54 Drivers of Change Judges reveal their own top tips 58 Electric touring cars Pure ETCR at the Hungaroring 63
OUR CARS Kia Sorento Range busting with hypermilers’ help 68 Mazda MX-30 Does i t really have MX family genes? 7 1
EVERY WEEK Jesse Crosse How car touchscreens wil l get smarter 21 Jim Holder The rise and fall of diesel-powered cars 23 Steve Cropley ‘Basic’ Boxster and a 600bhp Focus 25 Subscribe Save money and get exclusive benefits 26 Damien Smith What’s to be done about Eau Rouge? 60 Motorsport round-up F1, Extreme E, BTCC, W Series 61 Your Views Green aims, Cupra fan, hybrid ral ly car 66 Matt Prior Why a BMW i8 i s a dreadful getaway car 90
DEALS
James Ruppert Wanted: a versatile car on a budget 72 As good as new Toyota C-HR: funky SUV from £13k 75 Spied in the classifieds 911 for £30k, 208 GTi for £6k 76 Used buying guide Mercedes 190: everyday classic 78 New cars A-Z Key car stats , from Abarth to Zenos 80 Road test index Track down that road test here 89
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GENESIS GV70 TAKES ON OLD GUARD AUDI Q5 40
HOW A TRAIN TUNNEL TURNED WIND TUNNEL 54
TOURING’S £1.5M ARESE RH95 DRIVEN IN UK 48
COVER STORY
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MATT PRIOR BUSTS STEREOTYPES WITH THE HELP OF A DRUG DEALER IN A BMW i8 90
FULL STORY ON THE NEW MERCEDES BENZ EQE 6
COMMENT
MOTOR SHOWS ARE BACK AND EVs GOT REAL
THE ABILITY OF motor shows to bring multiple cars from multiple brands under one roof makes them the best place for trend spotting. In the case of this week’s Munich motor show (p6) – the first major international motor show anywhere for almost two years – one trend is impossible to ignore: the sheer volume of electric cars that will soon be here. It’s so pervasive that there’s an absence of almost anything else.
In motor shows past, even as recently as 2019, for every EV there was a performance V8, or regular SUV. Yet not in Munich: almost every new car is electric. Not just urban concepts and family crossovers but even vast offroaders, luxury saloons and racing cars. The trickle of EVs has become a flood. We’ve long heard announcements from car makers that they’ll launch no new exclusively combustion-engined models in the very near future, and nothing but EVs within a generation of those cars. Yet such statements always feel rather distant; something that is coming soon rather than tomorrow.
In Munich, tomorrow arrived. The change has been happening for a couple of years in the background, with no motor shows to chart the industry’s progress, but now that all the manufacturers’ next generation of models are once more together under one roof, the change finally seems real.
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