Author name: Pamela Ross

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The S-Cross may externally look dramatically different from the model it replaced, but save for the more modern infotainment system and a little bit of rubberised material on the dashboard, the interior looks largely as it did in 2013. Back then, we described it as “cheap and cheerful but convenient and credible too”. About 75% of that

The first area where the Cupra Born makes a really clear case to pick it over an ID3 is in the interior. On a fundamental level, much is still a little too similar to what you’d find in the VW. The Born has the same minimal digital gauge cluster that is mounted on the steering column and is fused with

Our plan boiled down to a 362-mile round trip, starting from my place near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, as calculated by the algorithmic wizards of Waze. When the whole thing could be plotted today on a digital map in minutes, I fell to wondering how my journalistic ancestor of 1933 would have calculated this same route, and

Just like the exterior, the new car’s cabin architecture is very apparently derived from that of the old one, making the typical hatchback hip point and semi-recumbent driving position feel familiar. So too are the locations of the instruments and controls and the levels of accommodation. The car remains a mid-sized option in a class with

Volvo binned the diesel engine some time ago, with V60s now being offered either as B4 petrols, like this one, which is a range-topping £48,070 Ultra, or T6 plug-in hybrids. The reintroduced V90 comes as a plug-in hybrid only. So the engine here is a mildly hybridised built for mooching but really quite lithe by