A deal of the Macan’s ongoing success as the most popular Porsche in the UK must, surely, be attributed to the fact that the company has had plenty of time to hone the handling of a fundamentally practical SUV since the arrival of the then plug-ugly Cayenne in 2003. And, that’s undoubtedly the reason why, …

Inevitably, the original Mini still consistently tops the polls as the nation’s best loved car, a position which BMW’s capital-lettered replacement has exploited with ruthless efficiency. But two years before the first Mini rolled off the production line in 1959, the rest of Europe had already begun a long-term affair with Dante Giacosta’s remarkable automotive …