Sector: Luxury Price: £87,965 Fuel: 100.9mpg CO2: 65g/km In the quest to produce the most efficient cars, carmakers such as Toyota, BMW and Tesla are increasingly pushing back boundaries. But Mercedes-Benz will
Clearly the styling is a moot point, and the aerodynamic alterations on the EV won’t sway opinions, but this is an underrated and clever car which works brilliantly in urban environments. It’s
Some of what makes this car tick is already familiar through the i3. Both cars have a structure largely made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer, a material that’s 30% lighter even than
Available in the UK from Spring 2015, the brand’s first fully electric car will be offered in a single, high-spec trim level, with equipment based on the conventionally-powered AMG Line. Pricing, after
Thanks to the low emission tax advantages of hybrids, Lexus has sold well in the company car market. This NX too offers a tax advantage, thanks to a CO2 figure as low
There’s an obvious niche for this car to fill. With surprisingly high economy for the power available, a quarter of all Golfs registered in the UK this year have been the GTI,
Sector: Lower medium Price: £29,950 (after £5,000 Plug-in Car Grant) Fuel: 176.6mpg CO2: 37g/km Much like the video market of the early 1980s, where VHS and Betamax jostled for public acceptance (and
Whether that’s a pro or a con depends on personal taste. This isn’t a glaring billboard for a company’s environmental credentials, but the e-Golf takes an unfamiliar technology and slots it into
Indeed, with 187lb/ft of torque on tap from a standstill, the electric van is actually quicker to 60mph than its 1.5dCi counterpart and more agile around town too. Rather than joining forces
Like the Vauxhall Ampera, it's been a long time coming. Mitsubishi showed the PX-MiEV concept car back in 2011 and launched the car in Japan shortly afterwards, enjoying demand so strong that
That’s a tough segment to crack. Volvo and Lexus have struggled in the past, Jaguar and Alfa Romeo are readying new models, and Infiniti is a relative unknown at present. UK sales
However that looks set to change. While Volkswagen was at pains to point out that it isn’t launching anything yet, and that they are purely an engineering exercise, we have tried both
For Lexus, it’s been a valuable development. The CT 200h arrived as a competitive premium C-segment rival in 2011, and the four-cylinder IS 300h finally made large hybrids a viable proposition against
Yet new models are on the way, with Nissan promising its e-NV200 and both Peugeot and Citroën showing electric vans at last year’s CV Show, though we’ve yet to see any of
Thing is, with electric cars, we’ve heard all of this before. Every single one seems to be launched with the claim it is a ‘game changer’. The problem is it’s a game
But Lexus made the shrewd move of not joining the crowd. Now adopted across the range, the CT took on what has traditionally been a diesel-heavy sector with a single drivetrain option
The Panamera S E-Hybrid, a high performance, low-carbon luxury car, competes in a corporate-dominated market sector, and offers a glimpse of some of the Group’s most advanced hybrid technology. So this is
Volkswagen has been hinting at this model since its concept car namesake was first shown in 2007, and it forms part of plans to put an electrically-driven model in every sector that
Range isn’t much of an issue in this segment. Superminis typically cover mostly local, short routes where the claimed 130-mile NEDC range on offer from the ZOE is plenty. We tested the
Lexus has continued to invest in hybrid drivetrains while others stick with diesel. Since 2005, starting with the RX 400h, every model in the Lexus range has had a hybrid option, from