Matt Kimberley

With promises of diesel-like efficiency alongside old-school high-rev thrills, the Mazda 3’s SkyActiv-X petrol engine seems to offer everything, but there are a few problems…

Maserati has let its latest prototype, driven by a completely in-house Maserati-built powertrain, ‘loose’ on the street outside its factory, in a weird attempt at taking its own spy shots

Lexus has taken the roof off the already stunning LC 500, and the result is the perfect engineering marvel if you live somewhere with sea, sun and boulevards

As bonkers as it seems, Hyundai is working on a mid-engined sports car platform that could eventually emerge as a brand halo car to rival the Honda NSX

Audi hasn’t exactly played it subtly when it came to designing its first RS-badged SUV; with sports car performance figures and so much mass it might pull the moon out of orbit

The Spanish car maker has unveiled a dinky little scooter, powered by a tiny but surprisingly gutsy electric motor

Eight free minutes of Ken Block’s 914bhp Hoonitruck blasting up the astonishing Tianmen Mountain road is everything we wish paid TV subscriptions gave us

Ford has revealed most of the details for the new Mach-E battery-electric vehicle, which will only be offered to buyers online but can offer up to 370 miles of range

Ford’s Mustang Mach E may use the name of an all-time icon, but that isn’t always enough, as these car histories demonstrate

A Toyota Yaris with over 200bhp that sends power to all four wheels: the more you think about it the more far-fetched it sounds, so could Toyota really do it?

We admit we did a little squee when we saw Toyota’s teaser hinting at an unashamedly fat-arched hot Yaris, and with a name suggesting four-wheel drive…

With the optional Z51 package added, the 2020 Corvette Stingray will pass 60mph in 2.9 seconds – but the base car is no slower over the quarter-mile

Audi’s new mega-SUV is now the fastest of its kind around the most famous test facility in the world

For some reason Aston Martin has teamed up with revived classic brand Brough Superior to create a track-only hyperbike with a turbocharged V-twin

Toyota has brought a host of Supra concepts to SEMA 2019, some built in-house and others tuned by outsiders

Packing 444bhp and 406lb ft in the 2-series’ agile and compact chassis is no mean feat, but that’s exactly what the limited-edition M2 CS delivers

In case you needed a further reminder that the Supra is aimed as much at tuners as it is at the regular Joe, Toyota has casually dropped the news that it has tuned the B58 motor to a four-figure output

We’ve spent some time, probably not quite long enough, on imagining the kinds of love-children that could emerge from the impending PSA-FCA romance. Some are likelier than others...

Two of the automotive landscape’s best-known conglomerates are in talks over whether to join forces to fight the might of Toyota and Volkswagen

The Honda N600, which had a pretty cool engine to start with, has won a US modding competition and will now be turned into a Hot Wheels model

With a staggering specific output, performance so fast it’s not even quoted for fear of upsetting people, and an engine worthy of a Nobel prize for science, the Ducati Streetfighter is a hero machine

Subaru has used the Tokyo Motor Show to showcase the grand finale for the WRX STI, formerly the Impreza, as we know it, and the number of units being built is a subtle nod to the charismatic world champion

In case you missed it at the Tokyo Motor Show, have a look at this oddball little Suzuki concept that can be either a retro-inspired coupe or a practical estate

If you’re excited by the idea of sitting astride a small, two-wheeled vehicle with no safety belt and a larger power-to-weight ratio than almost any production hypercar, step this way and bring money