Matt Prior

Before there were coupés and SUVs , one of the early car bodystyles was the ‘dog cart'. It was so called because when horses pulled carriages, you might keep the dogs in the middle.

Steve Cropley recently said he'd rather have driven than flown home from an event, even though it would have taken longer. He absolutely, resolutely, talked my language.

I've just spent some minutes talking to Autocar's road testers about the Alpine A290 , the quick version of the new Renault 5 EV.

Clio RS may be dead but its spirit lives on in the new A290, says Prior

Would you feel the status of your borough were diminished if your mayor arrived at an event in a Vauxhall Corsa

It has come to my attention that the people behind the Funky Cat (Great Wall Motor, who later renamed the Ora EV something much more prosaic) have made something actually funky.

Now look, I'm not the sort of person to routinely disparage the mainstream media, because I suppose basically I'm part of it.

A recent lab test teaching rats to drive has us thinking

Would you judge somebody by which brand of phone they use? Or by who made their TV, or fridge, washing machine or dishwasher?

“You're going to catch some air,” says Tristan England, driver of the JCB Digatron Monster Jam truck, the subject of this year's Christmas road test.