Once you have managed to spit out the mouthful of its name, the new Vauxhall Insignia GSi Nav Sports Tourer BiTurbo estate amply goes to prove one thing very clearly.READ MORE…That is: connoisseurs can be full of crap. I was already aware of this immortal truth from other experiences. Neil Lyndon hits the Scottish highlands in the Vauxhall Insignia GSi Estate For …
A week that includes the Kia Stinger, BMW’s i8 Roadster and the BMW M5 Competition, Honda’s Civic Type R and not one but three Honda NSXs might be offered as a top prize in a charity auction for which enthusiasts would bid thousands. Even to me, jaded and cynical as I may be, this felt like a working week that was utterly remote from the ordinary. In fact, it may have been my all-time favourite week in 25 years of writing about cars. Neil Lyndon remembers the week that was… READ MORE
Everybody knows that a properly organised household is not complete without a Ford Transit…READ MORE…What I didn’t understand until last week, however, was that it’s even better to have two. Neil Lyndon drives a brace of very useful Ford vans The week before last, we had a Transit Custom Limited van at our house – the classic job …
At the end of my week with the new four-door Audi A7 Sportback 50 TDI, I checked my average fuel consumption. The read-out from the onboard computer was unbelievable, simply incredible. I scrolled through the system again to make sure I was getting the final average for the whole week, not the figure for trundling down my drive at the end of my last trip. The number that came up was the same. It was still unbelievable. It was 40.1 mpg. Neil Lyndon drives the Audi A7 tiptronically for a week and is rather taken with it…READ MORE
I hated the EcoSport when the last model came out in 2012. Ford promoted it at that time as one of their “world cars” (made in Brazil, China, India and Russia for sale everywhere). This only went to prove, to my mind, that something which is devised for everybody has little chance of pleasing anybody. Neil Lyndon drives the Latest 2018 Ford EcoSport Titanium…READ MORE
When we arrived at Birmingham Airport, Mazda provided a Mazda6 for us to drive away to the launch venue in the Cotswolds. As our car was being edged out of its parking space, I asked one of the guys who were greeting us, “Have we been given the old car for this drive, so that we can compare it with the new one later?”
Neil Lyndon drives the latest 2018 Mazda6 Saloon 194ps GT Sport Nav+ Auto….READ MORE