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THE BOX IS BACK • Land Rover Defender lovers, prepare yourselves. The Ineos Grenadier is an old recipe with new ingredients…

COFFEE BREAK

MINI COUPE

FERRARI SF90 DETAILED • Maranello bites the hybrid bullet and creates its fastest ever production car

FERRARI SF90 IN NUMBERS

BRAKE! BRAKE! BRAKE! • Less a shooting brake, more a swoopy estate. Still, VW’s elongated the Arteon and we approve

BMW 4-SERIES COUPE

CHARGE WARS

OLIVER BLUME

TIM HENMAN • The Brit tennis ace and Wimbledon commentator talks Peugeots and Porsches

TIM’S DREAM GARAGE • The tennis star’s favourite vehicles…

CITROEN SPIKES CACTUS • New C4 moves up in the world, goes electric and kicks the Cactus into touch

WHY YOU SHOULD BE FOLLOWING…

REVENANT’S AM VANTAGE

HOW TIME FLIES • Since when did watches become as much an accessory as a pilot’s necessity?

GEAR

FORMULA RETRO RACING

JAPAN’S WEIRDEST HOT HATCHES

HERO ZERO • The other stuff making us deliriously happy or horribly sad this month…

CHRIS HARRIS • It’s OK to have a change of heart. Chris puts his car journalist handbook aside and embraces convertibles

THE MIDDLE LINE • TGTV script editor Sam Philip knows how to make Formula One great again…

FUTURE PROOF • If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s to be nicer. Let’s hope that translates to driving too

The big test: family hatchbacks • The new eighth-gen Golf defends its title against BMW’s revamped 1-Series and its half-Spanish cousin, the new Seat Leon. Is it worthy?

Rational treasure

Twin test: rear-drive supercars • Audi takes on Lambo in the battle for entrylevel supremacy, but who triumphs?

MUST TRY HARDER

Electric shock

The overrun • Small but perfectly formed reviews. The best of the rest from this month’s drives

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SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER TIME • Does chopping the roof off a supercar ruin the magic? It’s time to embrace the sunburn and find out. To the beach!

LESS IS MORE • Can’t afford an al fresco supercar? No biggie, open top driving can be just as joyful for a fiftieth of the price…

WE’RE ALL GOING ON A HOLIDAY… OR NOT • Who needs a summer holiday? On average they cost £600 per head. Here’s what you could get instead of a trip for four

SPACE RACE • Six decades since Armstrong’s small step, a new wave of space start-ups aim to take humans back to the moon, and beyond

STUCK BETWEEN A T-ROC AND A HARD PLACE • How much lifestyle is too much lifestyle for a lifestyle SUV? There's only one way to find out

BLACK BIRD • Seven years since the SLS Black Series rocked up, AMG has dusted off its rarest badge for a no-holds-barred version of the AMG GT… and it’s not for the faint-hearted

FEELING CRANKY? • Flat plane vs cross plane, pros and cons

DARK MATTER

EXPOSED THE TRUTH ABOUT SUPER CARS • THE SUPERCAR PRICE BUBBLE HAS BURST, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT – EXCEPT ONE INSIDER

GRAET ESCAPES • A good roadtrip film can evoke every feeling under the sun. Here are the best and why they matter

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK FIVE TO TRY…

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RUST IN PEACE • The veteran photographer finding beauty in lost and abandoned cars

SILVER ARROWS, 1955

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