We needed a five-seater family car. Tick the Duster. We were going to buy it for cash out of our savings so we wanted to spend as little money as possible. Double ticks for the Duster. We live down an unmade track off a minor road in the Scottish hills where we get snowed in most winters. So we genuinely need a 4×4. Tick again…Read More
Skodas are selling better than they ever have done previously and the company now seems confident to price its cars a little nearer VW prices than before….Read More
“It’s a terrific car – extraordinarily able in its driving dynamics and superbly engineered. The new Focus ST is so stunningly good that anybody who bought one would have good reason to take sole occupation of the bragging corner in the pub or the office….More
Busy, busy, busy…that’s the motor industry. While there may be a deluge of rain outside your house just now, there’s sure a deluge of brand-new cars piling into the show-rooms.
Volkswagen are high up in this chart and their latest Passat is actually the eighth generation of when VW introduced the name in 1973….Read More
A Fresh look at a Topseller. Can Small Cars Get any Better? First Drives of the 2015 Audi A1 and A1 Sportback from the International Launch
The new Audi A1 has just been released, available to order now, with first deliveries this spring…read more
Ford is no exception when a new car is launched – in this case the All-New Ford Mondeo. As with its competitors, a plethora of improved or all-new engines and technical advances are announced in a car that is lighter, stronger, more spacious and more efficient than the outgoing model…more
This was a watershed year for cars. As the new Kia Soul EV and the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron bear witness, 2014 may eventually be remembered as the moment when the electric car moved from the margins to the mainstream….Read More
“This could be a serious rival for the Ford Focus,” I said to my driving companion while we were on the road in the new Hyundai i20.
A puzzled silence descended on the cabin for a second. “But this car isn’t up against the Focus,” he eventually said. “It’s in the Fiesta segment.”
“In that case,” I answered, “it’s serious competition for the Fiesta.”….Read More
You know how much one leaf differs from another? About the same degree of difference distinguishes the new Toyota Aygo, from the new Citroen C1 and the new Peugeot 108. Such minimal dissimilarity as does exist between these cars might be enough, however, to persuade a potential customer to buy one rather than another. – Read More
New mutated strain of DNA for the 500 range. Another descendant of the iconic Fiat 500 with all the visual clues from the original. This time ‘Pumped’ to create a new appealing stylish…more