1 HR AGO - Mirror Motoring's Andy Gilpin welcomes back the new Toyota Supra after a quarter of a century - but reckons a lot of people will find it rather familiar Collapse

4 HRS AGO - Electrogenic has swapped iconic saloon's 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine for 120bhp electric motor British EV conversion specialist Electrogenic has revealed what it claims to be the first professionally converted electric Citroën DS. The Oxfordshire-based firm has fitted the 1971 saloon with its own 'Hyper9' brushless electric motor in place of the original 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and paired it with a 48.5kWh battery capable of around 140 miles of range.  A maximum charging rate of 29kW allows for a full charge in around two hours. Customers can also request an optional 'range-extender' battery that's good for more than 200 miles. The motor produces 120bhp and 173lb ft of torque – a significant improvement over the original engine's output. Power is sent to the front wheels through the original manual gearbox. Electrogenic has also upgraded the DS's landmark self-levelling hydropneumatic suspension system, swapping the stock mechanical pump for a silent Collapse

12 HRS AGO - Forget manufacturer claims - we've verified all these high speed runs with our own timing gear These are the quickest ten cars yet to have been the subject of a full Autocar road test, as verified by our own timing gear. And guess what: the legendary McLaren F1 is no longer anywhere among them.  Acceleration claims for new performance cars are easy to make, but often tricky or even misleading to compare. When it comes to standing-start acceleration, judging cars on like-for-like terms isn’t always easy, with slightly different benchmarking standards often skewing your comparisons.   European manufacturers most commonly claim standing-start acceleration for their cars in 0-62mph because it’s equivalent to 0-100kmh; but some UK-based firms still claim 0-60mph instead. Meanwhile some American-based car-makers who claim 0-60mph performance do it on the basis of a ‘one-foot rollout’ drag-strip-style performance measure which disregards the first foot of the car’s acceleration run, and Collapse

19 HRS AGO - Organised group tours give you all the fun and none of the hassle of putting together the logistics yourself, as well as the joy of riding, laughing and having a beer or three with kindred spirits at the end of the day. So saddle up, and next stop Scotland Collapse

23 HRS AGO - McLaren's open-roof track star seemingly exists in isolation, which only increases its appeal Conventional wisdom says convertible supercars do not make good track-day tools, but since the 675LT Spider of 2016, McLaren has basically given two figures to that idea. The composite MonoCell tub used across the model range means the Spider derivatives get more or less the same degree of torsional stiffness as the coupés. And it’s this uncompromised stiffness, rather than the weight saved by not having to comprehensively strengthen the open-top structure, that makes a small but discernible positive difference when you’re wringing McLaren's Spider models out on track.  At 1388kg the 765LT Spider is 49kg heavier than the 765LT Coupé, which is an increase of around 3%. That sounds like very little, and it is very little, but even with their more steel-based architectures, alternatives from Lamborghini and Ferrari get close to achieving that. (The difference tends to be around 5%.) What those Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Prices start from £29,495 for the now hybrid-only hatchback which is capable of 30 miles of electric-only drive Renault has revealed UK pricing and spec details for the new hybrid-only Mégane ahead of orders opening in August. Prices for the French firm’s Golf rival will start from £29,495 for the basic Iconic specification level, with the premium R.S Line starting from £31,495. Deliveries will begin in September this year. The Mégane family hatchback loses its petrol and diesel powertrains, gaining a plug-in hybrid option in line with Renault's electrification strategy.  It joins the Mégane Sport Tourer estate in the firm’s electrified line-up and Renault says it's capable of a combined WLTP fuel economy of 235mpg and CO2 emissions of just 28g/km, with a potential electric-only range of 30 miles.. Two trim levels will be available: Iconic and sporty RS Line. Both models are driven by a 1.6-litre petrol engine and a 65bhp electric motor for a combined output of 158bhp, sending the Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Our reporters empty their notebooks to round up a week in gossip from across the automotive industry In this week's round-up of automotive gossip, Ssangyong talks recent sales success, Lamborghini confirms more track-friendly models could see production, why Mercedes doesn't see the need for rapid charging in its PHEVs and more. Musso more sales after lockdown Lockdown lifting was good news for all retailers, but Ssangyong UK MD Kevin Griffin was particularly pleased to see a doubling of Musso pick-up truck sales after lockdown ended. “One of the reasons they [customers] come to us is supply,” he said, explaining the sales growth. “If you’re buying a truck, you need a truck.” Expect more low-volume Lambos Lamborghini's V12 will be electrified in future road cars, but in an exclusive interview boss Stephan Winkelmann said low-volume, pure-combustion track specials like the Essenza SCV12 aren’t off the table. “Let’s see what comes up. We do this once in a while,” he said. “We have a Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Attempts to mate GT dynamics to a Cayenne Coupe are curiously successful You’ve got to be quite bold to put the GT badge, usually reserved for Porsche’s most road-focused sports cars, on an SUV, a type of car whose ethos wasn’t originally born out of just making a 4x4 a bit nicer on the road.Now being an SUV it includes a – and almost sorry to mention this – 7m38.9s Nurburgring lap time, which is faster than, well, you almost certainly don’t care. What we might both care about is how a Cayenne Coupe responds to the Weissach treatment.There are some significant changes. On the outside that’s bumpers, spoilers and the like – all functional changes – with 22in wheels. Inside they’ve slaughtered a herd of Alcantara, the poor things, which with a yellow rev-counter and huggy seats immediately makes things feel much more racy.Power from the 4.0-litre engine is up by 89bhp and 52lb ft over the regular Cayenne turbo (to 631bhp and 627lb ft) thanks to Cayenne-specific alterations inside the Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Alpina B4 is set to use four-door Gran Coupé as its basis Source suggests Buchloe will use latest BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe as basis for next car Alpina is expected to expand its portfolio of uprated BMW models with a new-generation B4, but while the previous car was based on the two-door 4 Series Coupé, its successor is tipped to take the new 4 Series Gran Coupé as its basis. The tip comes courtesy of an unidentified source on the popular Bimmerpost forum who claims to have access to future product plans "compiled from various leaks within the BMW organization". According to the dates outlined, the new Alpina B4 will be introduced in March 2022, as BMW ushers in a new four-wheel-drive 430ix variant of the G26-generation 4 Series Gran Coupé. Given the technical similarities between the previous-generation B4 and the 3 Series-based B3, we already have a good idea of the new four-door version's make-up. The B4 will no doubt share the latest B3's twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre Collapse