“This is all the car that anybody could ever need,” said my driving companion at the wheel of the Audi RS 6 Avant Performance.
This one is the real deal
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Is it an essential qualification for a job at McLaren to be slightly unusually put together in the head?
A week in the Jaguar XE R-Sport
The new Jaguar XE needs more than a mere motoring writer to do it justice. It demands the scholarship of an art historian, the breadth of a public affairs analyst and the depth of a social psychologist. This thing is far more than just a simple car..
Happy days, Ford Ka
What a pleasure to be reacquainted with Ford’s Ka! Driving the Zetec Black Edition version for the first time after it had been delivered for a week’s loan brought memories flooding back of the happy days when the original Ka was launched in 1996…
A fine family car, the Kia Sorento Reviewed
If you are in the market for a big, top-notch 4×4, there may be perfectly good reasons why you wouldn’t get a Volvo XC90…
A real car, the MINI Cooper S 5-door Hatch
“I don’t call that a real car,” scoffed my father…the first time I turned up at my parents’ house in the 1960s with a girlfriend in her Issigonis Mini. “It’s more like a Matchbox toy on Dinky wheels.”…
The exceptional sixth generation BMW 7 Series
Any life that has included every BMW 7 Series for the last 25 years cannot have been all bleakness and despair…
Dreamy Days of the Land Rover Defender
The new Land Rover Defender 110 locked me out. With the key in the ignition and the engine running. In the first moments of my week’s loan…
Dreams of mid engine coupes…
As mid-engine, two-seater coupes with supercar performance, the new Audi R8 and the new McLaren 570S Coupe have so much in common that they are hard to separate (not least the fact that, at around £150,000…