The RAV4 plug-in hybrid makes sense for company car drivers but rivals are quieter and more comfortable SUVs are all gas-guzzling planet-polluters, right? Well not the Toyota RAV4 – it actually pumps ...

Vehicles fitted with keyless entry and start systems are being targeted by thieves. Criminals using specialist tools can capture a key’s signal and relay it to another device next to the car, allowing ...

Paint protection treatment is a common optional extra offered by dealers to people buying a new car. It’s essentially an invisible coating applied over the top of the car’s paintwork and serves as a ...

Official testing of electric car ranges is completely unrepresentative of real-world conditions, potentially leaving drivers disappointed and with insufficient mileage, What Car? testing has revealed.

Someone once said that if you’re in a group being chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion; you just need to run faster than the others in the group. A similar principle applies to ...

Electric cars are similar to combustion-powered cars in some ways, but very different in others. One key difference is an electric car’s regenerative braking system, which uses the electric motor to ...

Modern cruise control is an electronic system that controls the speed your car travels at. Once you’ve set it, the car will carry on driving at the speed selected without you needing to have your foot ...

It’s late on a wet and windy evening and you’re driving home along an unlit country lane. You hear a thud and then the car starts to pull strongly to one side. You’ve hit a pothole and it’s punctured ...

The C1 is designed as a city car, so look for damage to alloy wheels (if it has them) for any kerb damage. Look also for scrapes or dents to bumpers and body panels, because these maybe costly ...

If there was one thing that Marty McFly was unlikely to see when travelling from 1985 to 2015 in Back to the Future Part II, it was a modern equivalent of Doc Brown’s time machine. However, if he’d ...

When Take That sang “you can have it all” in their 2007 hit single “Shine”, they might as well have been singing about the Mercedes GLC because it’s available with mild hybrid petrol and diesel power, ...

As Albert Einstein once said, "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". This might have been the philosophy in the minds of the team at Kia when it decided to streamline the ...