This week finds Steve Cropley and Matt Prior in the back of Cropley's Ford Ranger outside Ariel Motor Company as they discuss their respective weekly columns. They talk Ian Callum's new classic Mini, the Autocar Awards, Steve Rider's retirement, the Mercedes-Benz X-Class, the stress of having a car MOT tested and much more besides including your correspondence. 

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Is software the engine of automotive's future? Autocar has gathered a selection of the industry's most influential software engineers to find out.

As its role in vehicle development and functionality becomes ever-more important, there are huge questions over what software means for the automotive industry. We hear from Red Bull Racing's Daniel Watkins, Volvo's Rickard Arvidsson and Siemens' Uday Senapati about its impact on the automotive industry, the next car you buy - and the next Formula 1 race you watch!

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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior meet to talk Luca de Meo's exit from Renault, an unusually pleasurable slow driving experience in London, how Volkswagen could use in-wheel motors to create a 4wd ID2 R hot hatchback, the Triumph Spitfire, and much more besides including your correspondence. 

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Julian Thomson is one of the world's best car designers and if you don't know the name, you'll know his cars. As Lotus's chief designer he designed the Elise and at Jaguar Land Rover created the LRX concept, which went on to become the Range Rover Evoque.

But most of Thomson's career has been spent in advanced design and that's where he finds himself now, at General Motors' new advanced design centre Europe. 

Why does GM need a European design centre and what will it do? Join Steve Cropley and Matt Prior as they put these questions and many more to one of the world's most eminent car designers.

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Karim Habib has overseen a dramatic restyle of not just Kia's range of cars but also the company's branding and logo.

Kia has achieved double digit growth over the past five years in all major markets, and to date is the third best-selling brand in the UK in 2025 behind only Volkswagen and Ford.

Habib shares the secrets of Kia's design success with Autocar editor Mark Tisshaw from his office at the Kia global design centre in Korea.

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