Autocar magazine 4 May – out now

Get the world exclusive, only in Autocar: Volkswagen has squeezed 306bhp out of the Volkswagen Golf in GTI Clubsport S guise.

Also challenging for supremacy is our recently crowned king of the hot hatches, the Ford Focus RS. Read the full road test and verdict. 

We've also driven another hardcore hero; the Lotus Elise Cup 250. Find out how we got on with it inside. 

Also in this issue:

We've driven a prototype of the upcoming Aston Martin DB11. Find out what our first impressions are.

Take a read about the next-generation technology that Mercedes-Benz plans to put in its cars in the coming years.

There's a new British electric supercar from NextEV surging into the limelight, and it's taking aim at the McLaren P1.

Our long-term test cars:

We say "Bonjour" to the Peugeot 308 GTI, pile as many people as we can into the Land Rover Discovery Sport, and take a range-anxiety-wracked round trip in our Nissan Leaf.