Ford Focus ST Road Trip with Jonny Edge 2015 620x277

Driving long distances isn’t always easy. Traffic jams, roadworks, accidents and bad weather can all spoil the experience but despite all of these difficulties one thing remains true – driving a car is the very best way to take in a country. To prove the point, I planned a tripContinue Reading

Bentley Mulsanne Speed 2015 620x277

Under normal circumstances it wouldn’t be terribly sensible to pound down the outside lane of a motorway at 160mph in the pouring rain. These were not normal circumstances. For starters, we were in Germany driving on an unrestricted autobahn and, on this stretch at least, it was relatively free ofContinue Reading

The Suzuki Alto and Splash have reached the end of their lives so, in typically sensible Suzuki fashion, both models have been replaced by just one – the new Celerio. It presents an appealing package on paper, with prices starting at just £6,999 for a car that packs DAB radio,Continue Reading

Honda CR-V 2015 620x277

Here’s something you didn’t know about the Honda CR-V; it’s the best-selling SUV on earth. Not just in the UK, or Europe, but around the world. It must be doing something right, but Honda feels there is still room for improvement, so here’s the facelifted CR-V. That means there areContinue Reading

Getting the chance to experience the future of personal transportation isn’t something to turn down, so I went to Grenoble to see if Toyota’s i-Road is good enough for the road…Continue Reading

It’s been a long time coming, but the Honda Civic Type R has finally been let loose. Honda’s vision of a hot-hatch differs from that of Volkswagen or Ford, by eschewing the safe predictability of four-wheel drive for potentially tyre-shredding front-wheel drive. Can you really direct 310PS to the frontContinue Reading

Three months can be a long time when you’re trying to run a 17-year old French hatchback, but time has been relatively kind to the Twingo since the last long-term update. The first task was to get it through an MOT, something that can be surprisingly difficult with a carContinue Reading

Ford Focus ST 2015 620x277

The recently refreshed Ford Focus has been going down quite well, with the car striking an excellent balance between refined ride quality and engaging handling. It’s less clear-cut when looking at the performance end of the range; the ST has always been the effervescent option when compared to more refinedContinue Reading

Peugeot 208 2015 620x277

Look back at 2012 and you might remember that the Peugeot 208 was something of a talking point in the world of small cars. Its predecessor, the 207, had presented Peugeot to the world as a company that had rather lost its way; the car was too heavy and tooContinue Reading

Volkswagen Golf SV 2015 620x277

The Volkswagen Golf Plus was never a car to tug at the heart, but offered a handy practicality boost over the standard Golf. Now it’s been renamed as Sportsvan, or at least it has in Germany where that sounds like a good name. Over here it’s accepted that it’s neitherContinue Reading

Fiat 500X 2015 620x277

The motor industry can be a funny place at times. Six months ago I popped over to Italy to drive a new Fiat but spent more time in presentations or on a bus than I did behind the wheel of their car. Cynically, I did immediately wonder why that was.Continue Reading

Porsche 911 Targa 4 2015 620x277

A Wednesday afternoon on the A44 would probably not, for most people, be the kind of place to provoke thoughts of now near long-forgotten road races, especially road races that once took place on the island of Sicily. But it’s not the scenery that has my head filled with fadedContinue Reading

Ford C-Max 2015 620x277

Ford’s new C-Max has a simple job; to build upon the solid if unspectacular foundations of its predecessors. To its credit it manages to go about this in its own way. It’s a car for the thinkers as, while it never really inspires or moves you to place down thatContinue Reading