The Renault 5 has a long waiting list, plus an even longer list of glowing reviews. Must it now share the limelight with its bigger sibling? Dan Prosser finds out 

By trying to be all things to all car buyers, BMW managed to end up creating a master of not very much at all. Richard Bremner reports

This is the car that promised everything and then went on to deliver it too. Just not nearly enough of the time, as Steve Sutcliffe remembers all too well

For all its looks and exotic specification, could an upstart Lamborghini really put one over Ferrari’s finest? Andrew Frankel got to find out

Plenty of people have turned around car companies, but few as many or as successfully as Luca de Meo. So just how do you follow an act like that, asks Mel Nichols

There was a time when France built many of the greatest luxury cars in the world. No longer. Andrew English (a Scot) thinks he knows why

A snarling V6 engine, fine gearbox, sweet handling, great looks and rear-wheel drive. What more could you want for this kind of money, asks Andrew Frankel

To someone who has only ever driven ancient Defenders, what does time in a brand new one feel like? We thought Tati Reed should find out

Are drivers next in line to become social outcasts? Sometimes it can feel that way, says our young writer Max Taylor

Think tyres are basically all the same, that all you’re paying for with the big brands is a name on the sidewall? Think again, says Gez Medinger