Icon is a very over-used word, but one car that surely merits its use is the Jaguar E-Type Was there ever a more evocatively beautiful, sexily phallic piece of seduction on four wheels than that? All of which poses a problem for its successor, long yearned for and now finally arriving four decades later. The Jaguar F-Type is saddled with …
The Fiat 500C, the retro supermini goes topless Fiat’s re-interpretation of its iconic 1960s 500 model met huge acclaim when it launched in 2007, with the convertible joining the range in 2009. Both have enjoyed continued success, with Fiat celebrating 1 million sales in 2012. Numerous special editions have spawned throughout its life and with so many permutations of customisation available, it’s hard to find two identical 500s. The 500C shares the chic retro looks of the …
By most standards the GS450h is a very luxurious car. This is the fourth generation of Lexus’s luxury sports saloon, and it pioneers the company’s design style and ‘spindle front’ look. The test car, stunning in Arctic White, has a chiselled muscularity that makes it a very impressive beast…
Just returned from the launch of the sports version of the Ford Fiesta the UK’s best selling small car. The new Ford Fiesta ST a hot car, hotter than the Focus ST?, keep looking in the mirror for the new fastest Fiesta ever…
Winding tightly around the precipitous mountainside, it strings together a necklace of fast curves and tight bends. This is where Mercedes chose to showcase its new E-Class, and in particular the upper-crust, high performance range-topping E63 AMG…
Every now and again I get asked what I think the best car in the world is? And, usually, I’ll respond with the suggestion that there’s no better car than a Range Rover…
Second generation VXR now promises poise to match the power. In 2004 VXR replaced GSi as the badge that high performance Vauxhalls wore. Since then VXR models have been associated with extrovert looks, plenty of power, but also a tendency to be a bit unruly with it: the bad boy division of Vauxhall if you like…
The Suzuki Kizashi has not been in England long, it arrived on our shores in January 2012. A luxury executive saloon from Suzuki. Did I hear someone say ‘ but Suzuki only makes small cars?…Well they don’t and I like it…
I first saw the Opel/Vauxhall Mokka at the Geneva Motorshow, all new and shiny, I really liked what I saw. The new sub-compact SUV Crossover from Opel and Vauxhall was ready for some test-drives. Drive.co.uk went to Germany…
The New Generation Honda CR-V. The Honda CR-V the car that set the SUV scene in its first generation back in 1995. Just in the showrooms the ruggedly good looking Honda CR-V. Made in the UK and manufactured in Swindon, re-designed and innovated in all areas, smartened, toughened, lightened…