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
It’s taken a few years, but the new Honda Civic Type R is heading for the UK….Continue 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
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
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
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
The M1 near Luton. Four lanes of boring motorway, usually too choked with traffic for progress to be anything other than sedate. Only a few miles from Toddington services, this is the natural home of the repmobile. And I’m in the perfect example of a repmobile; the Vauxhall Cavalier. IntroducedContinue Reading
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
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’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
It’s been delayed for a couple of years, but is the replacement for Ford’s most important model worth the wait? Ford has been producing the new Mondeo for the last few years over in America, where it sells as the Fusion, but it’s only just made it to the UKContinue Reading
Can the S-Cross, Suzuki’s answer to the Nissan Qashqai, give the Japanese firm a foothold in the lucrative crossover market?Continue Reading
Suzuki is bringing back the Vitara after a 16 year absence. Is it worth the wait?Continue Reading
This is the third generation of Skoda’s ever-popular small hatchback, and it’s been tasked with winning sales from a talented and crowded sector that includes the likes of the Volkswagen Polo, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Fiesta. To do that it needs to be better than just ok, otherwise it’ll beContinue Reading
This is a car that sits in its own little niche, itself within another slightly larger niche. It’s a city car, one of many to choose from, but it’s also stylish and customisable. That cuts down your options significantly, but what if you want it as a nearly-convertible? You’re thenContinue Reading
