My test drive of the new Range Rover Sport was exacting enough, before I tackled the decommissioned jumbo at Cotswold Airport, near Cirencester, Glos.

All roads lead to Germany next week as the Frankfurt Motor Show gets under way. Mercedes-Benz will be showing off its first-ever SUV.

Let's hear it for 12 plucky drivers who drove for 24 hours at an average speed of 125 mph in British-built Vauxhall Astra hatchbacks.

The X Factor boss might have been holding court in Los Angeles but for motoring editor Ray Massey, nothing could upstage the Jaguar F-type.

This is the second generation of the family car that broke the mould and helped create a whole new segment of 'crossover' vehicles, which put a 4x4 shape on the frame of a hatchback.

The 200 mph California T is set to roar into Britain from September after its world debut at next month's Geneva Motor Show, whilst the Jaguar F-Type sports coupe was launched this week.

The McLaren 650S Coupe and open-topped Spider, with an electrically-retractable hardtop, make their global debuts on Tuesday at the Geneva Motor Show.

Prices start at £20,455 on the road for the 1.4-litre TSI 125 PS manual and rise to £33,795 for the mean-looking 2-litre TSI 280 PS R. First UK deliveries will be in October

Priced from £32,395 to £42,995, the baby 'Disco' goes on sale in January alongside the existing full-size sevenseater Discovery.

Honda has revealed its new compact sports utility vehicle — the HR-V — which goes on sale next summer from £16,000.

Suzuki's new global city car offers very low CO2 emissions of 99g/km, 'class leading luggage capacity' of 254 litres and its AGS system also allows a low-speed 'creep' facility

Acceleration from rest to 60mph in 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 168mph. The guiding principle, it says, was 'functional beauty'. The driver can also control wing deployment.

RAY MASSEY tests the new Land Rover Discovery Sport on the snowy roads of Iceland. With an impressive seven seats avilable and fantastic flexibilty this car is perfect for families.

Built with flexibility in mind, it also has a sliding second row of seats. There is a choice of five turbocharged petrol and diesel engines. It is also the only car in its class to team four wheel -drive with seven seats.

The Outlander PHEV can be charged overnight at home, run on electric-only power or operate in hybrid mode, switching between petrol and electric power, depending on which is most efficient.

In a stunt worthy of the latest Bond film Spectre — for which the firm is supplying many of the cars — the XF (pictured) was revealed in a dramatic stunt high over the Royal Dock in Canary Wharf.

Cumberbatch was at the Shanghai Motor Show for the unveiling of the MG GS It will go on sale in Britain late next year.

The modified i8 coupe was developed with Toyota. It can travel 300 miles on one tank of hydrogen, with refueling taking about five minutes.

The technology has been built into the Michigan-based car manufacturer's Sync systems and is powered by software built by Nuance.

Charge up your flux capacitors! We're going back to the future with Tesla Motors' unveiling of its gull-winged, all-electric sports utility vehicle.

Eyes will turn East this month for the Tokyo Motor Show, where cars that will soon be on sale in Britain share space with some of the most outlandish designs on the planet.

Sure, there’s good work in evidence but it’s all so derivative, so Audi, so VW, so keep it safe, so keep it in the family. Its crisp sharp lines doing nothing more than echoing those of the Audi A3 and VW Polo.

The new Chelsea tractor is designed for fashionable, adventurous types who want wind-in-the-hair motoring.

The Swedish company has named its design for self-driving cars 'Concept 26' which it says aims to put the joy back into driving by letting people make the most of commuting.

While technical details are sparse, the French car manufacturer claims it will be the 'world's most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car.'

A number of the winners for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards have already been announced. Drake, Cardi B, and Jay-Z are among those taking home non-televised prizes.

She's currently enjoying something of a career resurgence, after recently releasing new music for the first time in more than four years.

She;s spent an incredible four decades in the spotlight.

Taylor Swift was confirmed to open the 2019 Billboard Music Awards with the premiere performance of her hotly anticipated new track ME!

Drake was the big winner Wednesday at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas as he lead a pack of artists hoping to set records.

Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie have prime seating for the show, based on photos of the seating arrangement for the A-list music event. And the Jonas Brothers will bring their high profile partners.

Taylor Swift's biggest fans scrutinized the 29-year-old singer's look on the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday to the point that she was hinting at the title of her upcoming album.

Madonna was determined to come back from her career hiatus with a bang at the Billboards Awards on Wednesday night.

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner caught their fans by surprise by getting married Wednesday night in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards.

The Game Of Thrones actress, 23, cut a casual figure as she arrived at The Box nightclub in Soho, London on Friday for a night out with friends

Swift - who turns 30 on Friday - took aim at the 38-year-old record exec in the pointed speech after he acquired Swift's music catalog when acquiring Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group.

Instead of being stuck with stingy annuities, retirees now have the freedom to dip into their pensions using income drawdown.

Retirees can now find more flexible income from drawdown, multi-asset funds and so called 'third- way' products that combine annuities and exposure to the stock market.

Our pensions are changing - radically. Some say for better, others for worse. We say, make yourself as best informed as you can be with a copy of this super free guide.

By the  time you retire you should really have mapped out how you’ll get an income that’ll last as long as you’ll need. Ideally, that means sitting down with a financial adviser.

It may not seem like a grand romantic gesture, but making sure your spouse is financially comfortable in retirement, will go a long way towards securing your future happiness together.

The couple managed to convince HMRC they were unaware his filling in the child benefit form could result in her losing state pension in old age, in a case that could help many other parents.

We spent an inheritance and a lot of savings on buying a tiny flat for one son, but might we be forced to sell up if one of us needed care? Lawyer Ben Tyer (pictured) of GLP Solicitors replies.

I have four other siblings but I'm the only child who still lives there. I have never lived anywhere else and consider it my home. Lawyer Bonita Walters (pictured right), of Clarke Willmott, replies.

Do I have to give him a formal dated letter to prove it was a gift and when the gift was made? Can you suggest a format? Lawyers Jennie Pratt and Jack Burroughs of Ashtons Legal reply.

Equity release customers could have been given the wrong advice it has emerged, as the City watchdog confirmed it is looking at mortgage lending practices to older borrowers.

Eric Lewis-Leaning discovered last month he was paying £19.95 a year to a company called 'CBA Malwarebytes' via his credit card, despite not owning a computer.

Financial services firm Responsible Life submitted a Freedom of Information request and learned the DWP does not keep track of how many people fail to claim the state pension.

The Treasury is reportedly considering raising a key threshold where the controversial 'taper' kicks in from £110k to £150k, but pension experts think this will be ineffective or 'a sticking plaster'.

Pensions Minister Guy Opperman and shadow pensions minister Jack Dromey have called for for a new independent 'arms-length' government body in a think-tank report.