TOP-SPEC HS OFFERS TERRIFIC VALUE

At first glance, you might not get too excited by a review of the latest SUV from MG, the HS. But would news that by going Chinese could save you up £6,000 make you look again?

We’re testing the top of the range Exclusive model which comes in at a remarkable £21,995. That’s with our car’s manual gearbox – a double-clutch automatic transmission will set you back a further £1,500.

With this much car at such a good value price, I was expecting to open the driver’s door and see an interior made from recycled wheelie bins or worse. But, big surprise, the HS has the smartest interior of any MG yet. Sure, if you give it the forensic scientist treatment and start poking around you’ll find some cheap and hard plastics. But in most places you’ll find soft materials, piano black trim and brushed aluminium details.

Often at motor checking out the details and shows you’ll see people with clip- materials of cars that they intend boards and tape measures going to compete against. I suspect a bit over new cars millimetre by milli- of this espionage was involved in metre. These are often engineers the birth of the MG HS. Some of from Chinese or Korean car firms the design and use of materials

MG HS Exclusive five-door SUV Price: £21,995

Engine: 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol, 169bhp

0-62mph: 9.9sec

Fuel consumption: 37.8mpg

Co2: 148g/km looks a bit Mercedes-benzish.

But who cares? The result is a car that feels a lot posher than its price tag reflects. You get lots of kit in the Exclusive trim including an infotainment system that is

Bentley is building 30 special edition versions of its Mulsanne saloon to celebrate 60 years of continuous production of the 6.75litre V8 engine that powers it. The car will be called the Mulliner 6.75 and it comes with various badges and plaques showing off its name. Bentley will stop production of the Mulsanne itself in the spring. Now, I have a lifelong history of losing bets, but when Bentley claims that the V8 engine has the longest production run of any in the world (it was introduced in 1959) I think they’re wrong. Chevrolet introduced its legendary smallblock V8 engine in 1954 and, although it’s been developed over the years and has come in various sizes, it’s essentially the same basic design.