BMW i8: car review
A tiny engine is not the obvious way to power a sports car. But BMW’s dramatic new plug-in hybrid doesn’t do the obvious. Martin Love test drives the i8
Reviews
Halfway through 512 hours of Marina Abramović: no one to hear you scream
Our critic revisits Abramović’s residency at the Serpentine and finds its stifling silence and exam-style tasks evoke more production-line misery than mindfulness
• Marina Abramović review – ‘Who knows what might happen?’
• Marina Abramović: ‘I was ready to die’
The best folding bikes
Whether you are a time-pressed train commuter or an urbanite short on living space, a folding bike offers a smart solution. But be warned: a little practice will stop you trapping your fingers and getting oil all over your clothes. Here are five of the best to get you going
Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson’s objections
Elon Musk’s new electric sports car, launched in London, is the Aston Martin of the electric car world – but it doesn’t come cheap
The Hotel on Place Vendôme – review
Truffled antelope, anyone? Tilar J Mazzeo’s study of the Ritz hotel in Paris during Nazi occupation takes in sex, collaboration and Hermann Goring in a silk kimono
The Life of the Automobile by Steven Parissien and Auto Biography by Mark Wallington – reviews
Is car worship declining? Joe Moran gets behind the wheel for two enjoyable histories of the automobile