This is the last car review I shall ever write Car Reviewed: Mazda MX-5 RF It’s been a good run. My enforced retirement comes close to the anniversary of the moment when the editor of a national newspaper idly wondered if I might fill in on the motoring column for a few months while she found somebody permanent. That was …
For what it’s actually worth, the GMW Ora Funky Cat is a staggering piece of kit Car Reviewed: GMW ORA Funky Cat Electric Car The lines appear to have been drawn from a European stewpot. There’s a hint of Fiat 500 here, a touch of Mini and a trace of Clio. It may not be exactly original, but it’s undeniably …
If you know any Tesla owners, you won’t need to be told that they routinely turn up their noses at other electric cars Car Reviewed: Volvo XC40 Recharge Ultimate I walk every Saturday morning with one of my best friends, who is a Tesla owner and also a distinguished marine architect. He always scorns every electric car that I have …
“It’s bigger than my Corolla,” said the friend I take to a weekly spinning class when he got into the new Honda Jazz Car Reviewed: Honda Jazz EX Style 1.5 i-MMD Hybrid e-CVT He might have liked the car even more if he could have seen it. The Jazz’s domed egg shape makes it stand out from the drabness of …
The thing I loved most about the new Nissan Juke was its reversing alarm Car Reviewed: Nissan Juke Hybrid Tekna Who could fail to be won over by such a charming device? And I would have to admit that I needed some winning over with the Juke. The original Nissan Juke subcompact crossover SUV, dating from 2010, irked me so …
By any standards, the new Ford Connect Grand Tourneo Active is a fabulously handy piece of kit Car Reviewed: Connect Grand Tourneo Active 2.0L EcoBlue 7-Speed Auto FWD During its week with me on test loan, I used the Tourneo to:- How many vehicles on earth could deliver that bunch of tricks? The rear two seats in our seven-seater, long …
“Do you think we’re going to make it up the hill?”… Car Reviewed: MG4 EV SE (Long Range) She was grimly silent. If it all went wrong, there was no doubt as to who was going to cop it. We had been away for the weekend. When we left to drive home on the Sunday morning, the range indicator on …
The New Ford Transit Nugget Plus campervan is a real dream machine Campervan Reviewed: Ford Transit Custom Nugget Plus It may fail to drive like a Lamborghini or turn heads like a Bentley, but the Nugget can carry you further in fantasies than any supercar. It offers nothing less than the lure of freedom. At the wheel of this rolly-polly …
Once in a while, a new car comes along to blow your socks off. This year, it was the Polestar 2. Car Reviewed: Polestar 2 Long range Single motor Then I set eyes on the Polestar 2 for the first time in the metal and all those lazy, complacent prejudices immediately blew away. Thomas Ingenlath’s exterior design is unarguably one …
“That’s more like what we used to call a big car than a family hatchback,” Car Reviewed: All-New Honda Civic e:HEV Advance 2.0 i-MMD e-CVT Its fastback rear-end put me in mind of the Rover SD1 of the late 1970s and 1980s, which was considered a large, “executive” car at the time. Looking up the record, I found that the …