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Mercedes-Benz A220d 4MATIC AMG Line | Review

In Car Reviews, Mercedes-Benz by Tom Scanlan

I’m getting that ‘deja vu’ feeling…been driving a Mercedes-Benz A-Class immediately after a week in the new Infiniti Q30. I’m getting that ‘deja vu’ feeling…been driving a Mercedes-Benz A-Class immediately after a week in the new Infiniti Q30. It should have been the Mercedes first followed by the Infiniti, because the A-Class platform is what the Infiniti is based upon…

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A family performance car, the Skoda Octavia vRS 230

In Car Reviews, Skoda by Tom Scanlan

As it happened, the Skoda Octavia vRS 230 was the third of three fast cars I had experienced in successive weeks. First was the awesome Audi R8 V10 Plus, then a mighty Golf R and then the Skoda. Even with a zero to 62 mph time of ‘as long as’ 6.7 seconds – more than twice the time the Audi R8 takes and a whole 1.6 seconds slower than the VW Golf R – it rather strangely didn’t feel that sluggish by comparison…