The 2021 Porsche Taycan is huge fun in its four-wheel drive, Turbo or 4S forms. But what if less is more?

This car is just badged Porsche Taycan, a simple name signifying that it only has one electric motor, so is purely rear-wheel drive. That in turn means it’s lighter than other Taycans, weighing from 2050kg, which means it could be better? We’ll see.

The latest Porsche Taycan has two power options, depending on which battery size you spec. Which is where it all gets a bit complicated. As standard, costing £70,690, it has 322bhp in normal driving or 402bhp on overboost when using launch control.

Specify a Performance Battery Plus, though, and your £74,769 Taycan gets a bigger battery, and you’ll have 375bhp in normal driving or 469bhp on overboost.

As standard, the battery has a 71kWh usable capacity or, with a Performance Battery Plus, an 87kWh battery. That lifts its weight from 2050kg to 2130kg, hence the extra power – Porsche wouldn’t want a ‘Performance Battery’ car to be slower.

Anyway it also gives a longer range, which is 268 miles with the smaller battery and 301 miles with the bigger one, on the official WLTP drive cycle.

Whether you’ll get that in the real world is another matter. Stay tuned to see whether this lighter, rear-drive EV is just as compelling as other Taycans, too.
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The 2021 Bentley Flying Spur is a thing of loveliness. The 6.0-litre W12 version of Bentley’s luxury saloon has already been launched and we already think it’s fabulous and has little to fear from the luxury rivals like the Rolls-Royce Ghost.

But Bentleys often get better when they receive the smaller, lighter, 4.0-litre V8 engine instead. And this is that version.

The Flying Spur V8 is cheaper than the W12 but barely any slower. It costs from £156,130 in the UK and because it has 542bhp and 568lb ft, it’s still capable of 0-60mph in 4.0sec and a top speed of 198mph.

Join Matt Prior as we discover just how competitive the new Flying Spur V8 is. Is it this year’s luxury sedan to beat?

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When Autocar’s Colin Goodwin suggested to Porsche that it would be cool to set some electric vehicle speed and distance records, Porsche took it *very* seriously.

And so a few weeks ago we lined up at Brands Hatch with a Porsche Taycan Turbo S and a Porsche Taycan 4S in historic racing colours, aiming to set a dozen distance and speed records.

To help, Porsche brought a bevy of racing drivers including current Porsche Carrera Cup and Sprint champions, former F1 and sports car ace Jonathan Palmer, and Porsche living legend Richard Attwood. Then there was Autocar’s Goodwin.

Starting and finishing in darkness, over 13 hours the team of six drivers and two cars set records for 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 kilometres, as well as for 50, 100, 200 and 500 miles. They also turned in one-hour, three-hour, six-hour and 12-hour records.

The crowning achievement of the bid, full details of which are laid out over 10 pages in Autocar magazine’s 27 January 2021 issue, was the 1000km record, achieved in almost exactly 13 hours, the record run beginning in darkness at 7am and finishing a few seconds after 8pm that night.

Here Goodwin brings you the full story.

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Ford Performance, the product development team behind cars like the Ford Focus RS and Mustang, has never made a performance SUV before. The new Ford Puma ST is their first half-attempt at one, which effectively puts the 197bhp three-cylinder turbo engine and a lot of the front-drive running gear from the popular Fiesta ST into a jacked-up Puma crossover hatchback body. But there’s more to this car than that, as Matt Saunders explains during our first drive along the rolling – and unexpectedly bumpy-feeling – Sussex Downs.

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Every year, the Nordschleife hosts the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Imagine (the better known) Le Mans 24 Hours with jumps, blind bends and 100-ft trees for secondary crash barriers. It is more rally stage than race track and, for the 24 Hours, rammed full of cars and drivers of varied capabilities. “It is so far from the pits we carry cash for a cab,” states former F1 driver and now Honda racer Tiago Monteiro. “It is probably the most challenging race on earth.”
 
If you think Monteiro and the four-wheeled gladiators who take on each other round the Green Hell are tough, meet Australian Josh Hook. He is a 24 hour racer too. Except he races on 2 wheels. In this time of Covid, 2020’s only major 24 hour bike race was at Le Mans in August. Hook, 27, entered despite having two broken bones in his right foot – sustained in a crash less than a day before the race began. To pitch Hook and Monteiro against each other in reality is impossible. But in the world of film comparisons are possible. Former WRC, Dakar and F1 presenter Jeremy Hart has made a documentary called 2+4=24. He follows Josh and Tiago to the edges of hell and back.  

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The 2021 Corvette Stingray has arrived in the UK. And it’s ace. It has a mid-engined 6.2-litre V8 making 495bhp which means it’s good for 0-60mph in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 184mph.

And it costs? Well, it depends. It could be as much as £130,000 because at the moment you’ll have to get one via an importer such as Clive Sutton (clivesutton.co.uk) to whom we’re very grateful for the test of this car.

The new C8 Corvette, though, here goes up against Europe’s best. We’ve got a Porsche 911 Carrera, with a 3.0-litre turbocharged engine making 380bhp, hitting 0-62mph in 4.2 seconds and a top speed of 182mph, at a cost of £82,793. But those relatively low power and speed stats have never held a 911 back before. In fact, the 911 and Corvette are two of the few cars that could try to claim to be the greatest sports car of all time.

So which is it to be? Join us as we hit the circuit to find out.
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Welcome to the 2020 Autocar Christmas Road Test, which is of The Goodyear Blimp. Or, more accurately, a Zeppelin LZ N07-101.

The Zeppelin is what’s called a hybrid or semi-rigid airship, which has a framework inside it but one which doesn’t restrain the balloon (or envelope), which takes its shape from gas pressure alone.

In this case, that’s some 7500cu.m of helium, to offset the Zeppelin’s 7500kg of mass, making this airship almost – though not quite – lighter than air. Around 95% of its lift comes from the helium, with the rest coming through aerodynamics or engine thrust, depending on speed, or load, and more. It’s quite a complicated machine.

So join us as we aim to make it simple. We explain how this Zeppelin has 600bhp from three engines, a top speed of 78mph, a maximum altitude of 3000m, a range of more than 600 miles and an endurance of 22 hours.

We find out how it works and how to fly it. It’s all here, in the world-famous Autocar Christmas Road Test for 2020.

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Things to note: the Citroen AMI isn’t technically a car at all. The new AMI is in fact a heavy quadricycle which means, in some European countries, you can drive it from as young as 14 and without a driving licence. But not in the UK.

That might not matter because, unlike the Renault Twizy (and remember the G-Wiz?) this left-hand drive city runabout might not go on sale in the UK at all. If you want it brought here, you’ll have to register your interest with Citroen.

But either way it’s a cool thing. It’s very small, to comply with quadricycle regulations, and is only allowed a top speed of 28mph. It’s electric, with a 5.5kWh battery and a stunning 8bhp. Yes, eight. No, that isn’t a typo.

Made in a new factory in Morocco, the Citroen AMI, developed from the even cuter AMI ONE concept, is intended for use around cities where it’ll have a range of around 40 miles and has a charge time from a domestic socket of approximately three and a half hours.

It has two seats, no opening boot, and costs £6000 or thereabouts in France, after a local clean-car rebate has been applied. And we’ve tried it in the UK. Join us for a test of one of the most novel ‘cars’ of 2020 right here.

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Ford has bucked the trend set by its chief European-based rivals, and is taking on Tesla head-on with its very first EV, the Mustang Mach-E. Offering up to 346bhp and four-wheel drive, with a ‘GT’-branded performance version still to come, the Mach-E is a usable mid-sized crossover SUV due to be priced from just over £40,000 when it arrives in UK showrooms in March; and it’ll be capable of up to 379 miles on a charge. But how much authentic Mustang flavour is there about its decidedly 21st century driving experience? Matt Saunders found out.

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