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UK Drive: The Mercedes EQA is a versatile yet compact EV

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Mercedes isn’t showing any signs of slowing down when it comes to its electric vehicles. Falling underneath the ‘EQ’ banner in the firm’s sub-brand of EVs, the new EQA takes the place as the smallest electric SUV in the range, channelling some of the learnings from the combustion-engined GLA but with that all-important battery-powered setup.

The thing is, there’s a decent smattering of compact electric SUVs available today, so the EQA has really got to nail things in order to come out on top. We’ve been testing it out.

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As mentioned, the EQA acts

First Ride: Honda’s CB750 Hornet brings lightweight and accessible performance

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The naked sports bike segment is awash with options. You’ve got offerings from the likes of Yamaha and Triumph – to name but two – so establishing a foothold in it is never easy. But Honda is never one to back out from a challenge, which results in this – the Hornet.

Reviving a name that shot to prominence in the mid-1990s, it’s a bike that aims to do a whole lot for a price that’ll attract a whole lot of riders. But does it feel cut-price when you’re out on the road? We’ve been finding

Sporty VW calms range anxiety

There have been too many journeys where charging not only became a problem, but a stressful experience. A journey to the Lake District springs to mind.

That was the perfect example of a short break spoiled, with the frustration of queues for charging points at motorways, many of which were not working, to the point that in the heart of Lakeland, having to rely on the goodwill of a campsite owner to allow us to use the three-pin plug to charge up overnight.

No such worries with this big VW, a glammed-up version of the ID.4, with

First drive: Jaguar’s F-Type R 75 is a swan song to the V8 sports car

On the face of it, the new F-Type ‘75’ models are just special editions with a few extra trinkets to mark out their supposedly special positioning. But there’s a romantic story going on here as Jaguar is yanking on the heartstrings with the F-Type P450 75 and F-Type R 75, for they represent the final iteration of the F-Type sports car before it’s killed off next year in readiness for Jaguar to become a pure-electric carmaker from 2025.

Once the F-Type goes it’ll close a chapter on Jaguar’s illustrious