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THE NEW RANGE ROVER MOVES THE GAME ON

Fifth-generation Range Rover leads brand-wide overhaul • Luxury SUV’s top-down revamp brings new hybrid powertrains and potent BMW V8

IN DETAIL

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE REST OF THE RANGE ROVER FAMILY?

JLR steps into electrified future

New Nissan EV to replace Leaf • Firm’s latest crossover will be built in Sunderland and succeed its electric trailblazer

NEXT ON THE AGENDA: FINDING AN HEIR FOR THE MICRA

Q&A

Ineos Grenadier to go hydrogen • Prototype 4x4 using Hyundai hydrogen tech will open the way for production models

Next-gen Brembo brakes use AI

London’s bigger ULEZ kicks in this week

CONFIDENTIAL

Gov’t to tell car makers how many EVs they have to sell • New mandated EV sales percentages are part of a wider push to net zero emissions

INDUSTRY REACTION TO THE ZEV MANDATE

HALEWOOD FUTURE SAFE AS EV PLANT

LAUDABLE AIMS, DETAIL NEEDED

NIO’S NEW TWIN-TYPE BATTERY TECH IS COOL – BUT NOT TOO COOL

Covid fallout still causing long delays for L-tests and lessons • Lockdown backlog and a shortage of instructors are making learner drivers wait

WHAT ABOUT THE HGV DRIVER CRISIS?

INSIDE INFORMATION

MY WEEK IN CARS

CHRISTMAS EARLY BIRD OFFER

AUDI RS3 SPORTBACK • Third-generation mega-hatch arrives with more power and more technology than ever before, and a price tag to match

TORQUE SPLITTING: THE DIFFERENCE

KIA EV6 • Flagship EV crossover has a lot going for it on paper – but it’s on the road that counts

FORD MUSTANG MACH-E GT • Does this 634lb ft all-wheel-drive flagship have dynamic appeal to match its pace?

PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 4 GTS • A drive on challenging British B-roads in autumn weather reveals its true colours

VOLVO XC60 T8 PHEV • Revised plug-in gets a bigger battery pack, brawnier motor and smart Google tech

RENAULT ZOE VAN • Popular electric hatchback arrives in zero-emission delivery van guise

Volkswagen ID 4 • All-wheel-drive EV launches a new performance tag. But what kind of car is a GTX?

Range at a glance

Weights and measures

Multimedia system

Track notes

Data log

GTX adds flavour to ID 4 but doesn’t reimagine ‘GTI’ for the EV age

ROAD TEST RIVALS • Verdicts on every new car, p74

FOREVER AND EVORA, AMEN • The Evora is bowing out but there’s a timeless quality to its Lotus DNA that delights – and always will. Steve Cropley takes it for a final fling

EVORA, FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

ARTIC EXPLORER • The UK is crying out for people to qualify as truck drivers, but what’s the reality of steering a 15m-long articulated wagon? HGV novice Simon Hucknall gives it a try

HOME IS WHERE THE TRUCK IS

CHASING THE MONEY • Why the expanded 2022 schedule shows Formula 1’s true colours

NEWS ROUND-UP

Taking racing to the people • It’s high time that the UK had a rally festival to rival the best in Europe

The Formula Ford Festival

MOTORSPORT GREATS

Peking to Paris • 18 May 1907

Seconds out, round two • Alex Albon will return to the F1 grid next year in a...