Gareth Butterfield weathers the storm in Toyota’s new Land Cruiser
By Gareth Butterfield I’ve always been quite bad at timing the arrivals of the cars I have in for testing. If it’s going to snow, I’ve usually... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the Cupra Born
By Gareth Butterfield It’s often said the best things come to those who wait and, I’m not sure how I let it happen, but it’s taken me over three... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Kia Sportage
By Gareth Butterfield Kia’s Sportage has always set quite the benchmark when it comes to a “safe bet” when it comes to choosing family SUVs. In... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a night in the five-star Celtic Manor Resort
By Gareth Butterfield Booking a night in a five-star hotel for just £90 feels like you’re cheating the system. But that’s exactly what I managed to... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the Skoda Superb Estate
by Gareth Butterfield In a world dominated by SUVs, it’s incredibly refreshing to still be able to review an estate. And although there are still a few large... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield travelled to Turin to test the new hybrid version of Fiat’s Grande Panda
By Gareth Butterfield Here is Gareth’s Favourite Article of 2025. Listening to Fiat bosses waxing lyrical about their new Grande Panda, at a rain soaked launch... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the BYD Seal U DM-i
By Gareth Butterfield Considering the fact that BYD is one of the world’s leading producers of rechargeable batteries, it shouldn’t come as a surprise... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield reviews the solid and sensible Skoda Kamiq
By Gareth Butterfield Cars like the Skoda Kamiq make me think back to the days when we were blessed with weird and wonderful designs like the Yeti and the Roomster.…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Dacia Bigster
By Gareth Butterfield As a motoring journalist who has been around a while, the fact that new cars have become cripplingly expensive in recent years is not lost... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield takes Suzuki’s new e Vitara for a drive both on and off road
By Gareth Butterfield They say the best things come to those who wait, and other predictable cliches, but here is Suzuki’s first ever electric car. And such... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Lexus RX450h+
By Gareth Butterfield If you happen to be in the market for a big, comfortable, family-friendly SUV, the first place you’re likely to turn to is the Germans.... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the electric version of Peugeot’s popular 208
By Gareth Butterfield This is Peugeot’s new e-208. And, yes, it looks exactly like the Peugeot 208. And, yes, the “e” means it’s electric.... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests Abarth’s lairy 600e
By Gareth Butterfield A lot has been said about platform sharing watering down the personality of most new cars at the moment. Take the Fiat 600, for example. It’s... Read more.
Gareth butterfield spends a week in the boisterous but beguiling Abarth 500e
By Gareth Butterfield Giving the Fiat 500 the Abarth treatment always turned it into the yobbish teenager of the car world. The sort that would wear its cap backwards... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield compares the hybrid version of the Fiat 600 with the all-electric version side by side
By Gareth Butterfield When Fiat began stretching the success of its 500 supermini out as far as it could, the results were mixed. The 500L was practical but forgettable,... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield heads to a pretty part of Yorkshire to experience a new all-electric Rolls-Royce, the Spectre Black Badge
By Gareth Butterfield Picture the scene: You’re in one of the most beautiful areas of Britain, in one of its most fabulous hotels, and a guy waves a leather-clad... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new all-electric Fiat 500e
By Gareth Butterfield Quite a long time ago, I took a Fiat 500 on a road trip from Derbyshire to Kent. And it nearly crippled me. I couldn’t get on…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield drives MG’s new Cyberster
By Gareth Butterfield When the 80-year-old British car maker MG re-emerged from a chrysalis to become the Chinese-owned MG Motor UK, there wasn’t a petrolhead... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a wild week in the Caterham 170R
By Gareth Butterfield You really don’t need me to introduce the Caterham 7, do you? It’s the lightweight sports car that, as the old cliche goes, can... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Genesis GV70 Electrified
By Gareth Butterfield This is the facelifted version of the Genesis GV70 Electrified which, as you can probably guess, is the battery-powered version of Genesis’s... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests Skoda’s new Elroq
By Gareth Butterfield I always imagine Skoda buyers to be the sorts of people who obsess over their front gardens. Their privet hedges never have a leaf out of place,…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Kia EV3
By Gareth Butterfield Take a look through Kia’s electric-car range (skip past the Niro) and you’re arguably eyeing up one of the greatest automotive... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new Citroen C4
By Gareth Butterfield When the new Citroen C4 landed on my driveway, I had to spend a moment taking it all in. And not only because of the multitude of…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the new version of Kia’s Picanto
By Gareth Butterfield For reasons I’ll never really understand, the city car is dying. We’re an overpopulated society bearing the brunt of sweeping urbanisation... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the new version of the ever-popular Tesla Model Y
By Gareth Butterfield People are often surprised to learn that the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car in 2024. And not just the best selling electric car, but... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the new DS 4
By Gareth Butterfield You probably don’t need me to tell you any more that DS is the upmarket sister brand to Citroen. It’s like Lexus is to Toyota,... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield takes a used Tesla on a road trip to see what they’re like to live with after four years
By Gareth Butterfield I was scrolling through Auto Trader the other day, as you do, and noticed that used Teslas are amazingly affordable. For example, there’s... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield drives the new Vauxhall Grandland
By Gareth Butterfield Vauxhall recently announced that the starting prices for its entire range would squeeze in below the £40,000 “luxury tax” bracket.... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests Lexus’s new RZ300e SUV
I can remember when Rolls Royce announced its first fully-electric car. Purists were furious because the luxury brand had made a name for itself producing cars with... Read more.
Is Toyota’s First Fully-Electric Car – the bZ4X – Still up to Speed?
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in Toyota’s first fully-electric car to see if it still stacks up We’ve reached a point in the world of battery-electric... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests the Speciale version of Alfa’s new EV
By Gareth Butterfield I know what you’re thinking, an electric Alfa Romeo feels like a contradiction in terms. This is the iconic brand that brought us the... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the facelifted Suzuki Vitara
By Gareth Butterfield It often feels like the technology behind modern cars is developing at at an alarming pace. It’s quite refreshing, then to see a 10-year-old... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield sets off on a road trip to find out why the Tesla Model Y is the best selling car in the world
By Gareth Butterfield If you think you’ve noticed a lot of Tesla Model Ys on the road, that’s because us Brits just can’t get enough of them. We... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield finally gets to test the latest Toyota Prius in the UK
By Gareth Butterfield If you look back throughout the history of the Toyota Prius, it starts to feel like the design of every generation has very much been a function…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the all-electric Jeep Avenger
By Gareth Butterfield The Jeep Avenger is very much a break from the norm for the iconic brand. It’s still an SUV, but it’s much smaller than its ancestors.... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield Takes the New Lexus LBX on a Road Test
This is the new LBX. It’s Lexus’s base model. The entry level. And, yes, that is a bit like saying the Oyster Perpetual is the cheapest Rolex watch.... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield Tests the All-New Toyota CH-R
I was always a big fan of the Toyota CH-R. It looked better than it strictly needed to, it drove well, it was spacious enough, and surprisingly economical with the…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield Reviews the Striking, New Peugeot e-3008
This is the new Peugeot e-3008. Striking, isn’t it? It’s a complete reimagination of a hugely successful car for Peugeot and, in this fully-electric... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield spends a week in the all-new Dacia Duster
By Gareth Butterfield Remarkably, one of the cars I was most keen to drive in 2024 happened to have been one of the cheapest. The all-new Dacia Duster. We probably…... Read more.
Gareth Butterfield tests Suzuki’s important new supermini, the Swift
By Gareth Butterfield You could be forgiven for not noticing, but small cars are starting to disappear from the automotive landscape. We’ve lost the Ford Fiesta,... Read more.