Whoosh! Watch the NIO EP9 all-electric supercar smash the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record… A remarkable video has been released by Chinese-backed NextEV featuring its futuristic car lap the notorious 12.9-mile “Green Hell” in six minutes, 45.900 seconds – 19.22 seconds faster than its previous lap time. Shaving 2.1 seconds off …

Hollywood star Michael Fassbender has stepped into a real-time role as a Ferrari racing driver. The Steve Jobs and 12 Years a Slave actor has successfully completed the first round of the 2017 North American Ferrari Challenge racing series. A lifelong fan of Ferrari and Formula 1, 40-year-old Fassbender began …

The Subaru BRZ is one of the best kept secrets of the automotive world. Developed alongside the near-identical Toyota GT86, it’s an affordable back-to-basics front engined, rear-wheel drive 2+2 sports coupe. For 2017, Subaru has given the evergreen BRZ a mid-life facelift, equipment upgrade and distilled the trim options down …

Jeep’s awesome 6.4-litre V8 HEMI-engined Grand Cherokee SRT goes head-to-head with a Hot Rod Coupe at Santa Pod. UK drag racing champion Stuart Doignie launched the Jeep off the start line and down the quarter-mile straight in 13.5 seconds, defeating the HEMI-engined Coupe, driven by Kelvin Dunn, by just 0.9 …

The Renault Twingo was the city car that dared to be different when it was launched in 2014. With its rear engine, cute looks and spacious interior, it’s been a quirky choice ever since. However, up until now, the one thing it’s lacked is Va Va Voom. The Twingo GT …

Land Rover has unveiled a new special edition Range Rover Evoque to mark the award-winning model’s global sales success. More than 600,000 Evoques have been built in six years of production – and it’s selling better than ever. An Evoque rolls off the Halewood production line every 170 seconds – …

Parents and kids appear to bond best when they’re in the car, according to new research. British parents are quite literally ‘going round the houses’ when it comes to discussing serious issues with their children – by using the family car as a travelling ‘confessional’. The study, for Renault Scénic, …

New car buyers are more likely to upgrade infotainment systems than choose enhanced safety features, according to new research. Four in five motorists say that safety technologies are important when buying a car, but a fifth refuse to pay extra for them even if it reduces the chance of having …

Nissan has utilised Victorian technology in a bid to stop drivers from being distracted by their mobile phones at the wheel. Despite tough new police crackdowns, one in five admits illegally texting while driving. Now boffins have created a prototype compartment within the armrest of a Nissan Juke lined with …

Perhaps nothing more demonstrates the dramatic progress made by South Korea’s Kia brand than the following statistic…. in the whole of 2007, Kia sold 29,429 cars in the UK. Now, 10 years on, 29,707 were sold in the first three months of 2017 alone. After the soaring success of 2016’s …