First Drive

A new diesel engine makes the 2015 Evoque the most efficient Land Rover ever.

Forty-nine years ago Ford achieved the impossible: beating Ferrari in the Le Mans 24-Hour race. The Italian team had been dominant for the previous six years and the Americans desperately wanted to give them a spanking. The car that did the job in 1966 – and for the following three years – was the GT40.

The pre-launch hype about the Jaguar XE rumbled on for months, culminating with a car being helicoptered into a celeb-packed Earl’s Court, serenaded by pop princess, Emeli Sande. There’s no such razmatazz for the XE’s big brother, the new 2015 XF. Just a flight to Spain to drive on mountain roads near Pamplona – followed by track time in the range-topping 380hp XF S.

We drive the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 on UK roads. Is it as brilliant as you may expect?

We drive one of the last ever Defenders to be made

It looks a lot like the outgoing model, but has Audi done enough to take on the Jaguar XE?

It's a case of 'spot the difference' for the 2015 Fiat 500

Jaguar and BMW: game on. Because the Jaguar XE is good enough to trade blows with the 3 Series. It might just be the class-leader.

Is Hyundai's ix35 replacement good enough to take on the Nissan Qashqai?

Is the plug-in hybrid BMW X5 a sensible alternative to diesel SUVs?