Join Autocar's Steve Cropley and Matt Prior as they delve into their motoring weeks, with subjects ranging from what they have been driving and where they have been, to what has caught their eye or been on their mind.
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Join Autocar's Steve Cropley and Matt Prior as they delve into their motoring weeks, with subjects ranging from what they have been driving and where they have been, to what has caught their eye or been on their mind.
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This week finds Steve Cropley and Matt Prior in the back of Cropley's Ford Ranger outside Ariel Motor Company as they discuss their respective weekly columns. They talk Ian Callum's new classic Mini, the Autocar Awards, Steve Rider's retirement, the Mercedes-Benz X-Class, the stress of having a car MOT tested and much more besides including your correspondence.
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Is software the engine of automotive's future? Autocar has gathered a selection of the industry's most influential software engineers to find out.
As its role in vehicle development and functionality becomes ever-more important, there are huge questions over what software means for the automotive industry. We hear from Red Bull Racing's Daniel Watkins, Volvo's Rickard Arvidsson and Siemens' Uday Senapati about its impact on the automotive industry, the next car you buy - and the next Formula 1 race you watch!
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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior meet to talk Luca de Meo's exit from Renault, an unusually pleasurable slow driving experience in London, how Volkswagen could use in-wheel motors to create a 4wd ID2 R hot hatchback, the Triumph Spitfire, and much more besides including your correspondence.
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Julian Thomson is one of the world's best car designers and if you don't know the name, you'll know his cars. As Lotus's chief designer he designed the Elise and at Jaguar Land Rover created the LRX concept, which went on to become the Range Rover Evoque.
But most of Thomson's career has been spent in advanced design and that's where he finds himself now, at General Motors' new advanced design centre Europe.
Why does GM need a European design centre and what will it do? Join Steve Cropley and Matt Prior as they put these questions and many more to one of the world's most eminent car designers.
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Karim Habib has overseen a dramatic restyle of not just Kia's range of cars but also the company's branding and logo.
Kia has achieved double digit growth over the past five years in all major markets, and to date is the third best-selling brand in the UK in 2025 behind only Volkswagen and Ford.
Habib shares the secrets of Kia's design success with Autocar editor Mark Tisshaw from his office at the Kia global design centre in Korea.
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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior head to the Autocar store room to talk classic Mini tours, the new Bovensiepen Zagato - the latest car from the family behind Alpinas - and the GWM Haval Jolion Pro, a forgettably-named car from the maker of the Ora Funky Cat, a name you wouldn't ignore. There's much more besides too, including your correspondence.
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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior meet in a top designer's office to talk about some secret Rovers, why the upcoming death of the Ford Focus ST means to much, Steve's newly shiny Alpine A110, the Audi A3 PHEV, and much more besides, including your correspondence.
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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior meet in a Jeep Wrangler to talk their respective Autocar columns. Cropley meets Jo Budge, who decides what your Audi is equipped with, nearly gets run over by an Aston Martin Cygnet, and he and Prior discuss what is the ideal car size, and what the next steps are for Bicester Motion following the tragic fire there two weeks ago.
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This week Steve Cropley and Matt Prior chat about the Volvo EX30, a new event called Petrol & Pride, the Subaru Impreza, Stirling Moss, finding a state of grace with one's car collection, and more besides, including your correspondence.
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In a bonus podcast, this week Autocar Meets David Martell, CEO of Andersen EV, which makes premium home chargers in the UK - a partner of Porsche, JLR and more if you're having a charger installed in the UK.
A "24 carat entrepreneur" says Cropley, Martell has been involved with Trafficmaster, Chargemaster (later sold to BP Pulse) and now Andersen. "I get a buzz from building a business from scratch," says Martell in this wide-ranging interview.
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In this week’s bonus podcast, Autocar deputy editor Felix Page speaks exclusively to Tisha Johnson, designer of one of 2025’s hottest new cars: the internet-breaking, £20k Slate Truck.
Find out how she’s making affordable cars desirable again by challenging all the hallmarks of modern automotive design, and why you don’t need a touchscreen in 2025.
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This week Steve Cropley visits Matt Prior's shed to record the My Week In Cars podcast, where the pair talk about the Polestars 3 and 4, an old Land Rover, the simplicity of old Saab heating controls, modern Volvos, kaput MGs, and much more besides, including your correspondence.
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On this week's My Week In Cars podcast Matt Prior and Steve Cropley get into cars from the 1990s, a defining era for the motor car. Cropley talks interviewing Nathalie McGloin, racing driver and the FIA's disability commission president, while Prior reviews the Morgan Supersport, and the pair talk cones and Jeep Wranglers, the Ineos Grenadier, plus more besides including your correspondence.
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