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  The new   Toyota GR Yaris   has actually been coming for even longer than most of us may realise. While this car’s had an extensively previewed gestation, it’s the first ground-up performance car that Toyota has developed ‘all on its own’ in some twenty years. By which is meant ‘without the help of another dedicated car-maker,’ of course. Because believe me, to have made a hot hatchback this good, Toyota must have had quite a lot of help from some very clever people who been spending a lot of weekends with messrs Makinen, Meeke, Tanak and Latvala. So, now that we’ve driven it – extensively, on a mix of UK roads and on track, and in its most alluringly specialized mechanical specification, we should add – we can at last confirm what matters most: that the hubbub of anticipation might actually have undersold the GR Yaris. This is a wonderfully exciting, amazingly capable and strangely evocative drivers’car, and a very rare and special hot hatchback indeed. First...

  Genesis will showcase its striking X Speedium Coupé EV concept at the   Goodwood Festival of Speed  next month, giving clues as to what future EVs from the premium Korean marque will look like. The  Genesis  X Speedium Coupé is described as a "freestyle" design exercise based on last year's  X Concept , led by chief creative officer Luc Donckerwolke, to show the evolution of the brand's Athletic Elegance design language. It will be shown alongside the all-electric  Genesis Electrified GV70  SUV, also making its European debut at the West Sussex event, ahead of a market launch in the coming months. With a maximum output of 482bhp and a range of more than 310 miles, the Korean firm claims that the all-electric version of the  Genesis GV70  will set “a new standard for luxury electric SUVs”.