Reviewed: new Peugeot 3008 1.2 PureTech GT Line
From Coco Chanel and Hubert de Givenchy to emerging designers like Christelle Kocher and Etienne Deroeux, France has always been one of the world’s foremost exponents of fashion design, and the nation’s love of style has perhaps inevitably long influenced other facets of French society from haute cuisine and architecture …
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Full review: new Volvo V90 D4 Inscription
Amidst the global obsession with SUVs and crossovers, the car manufacturer historically synonymous with practical and safe estate cars has returned to its roots and brought back the V90 badge twenty years after it originally replaced the 960 as part of the Swedes’ updated nomenclature. Long gone are former stereotypes …
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Rural parking meters should be abolished or modernised to combat the UK’s obesity crisis
It proved quite an eye-opener to discover that a whopping 83% of Brits aged between 40 and 60 are inactive or overweight according to a recent major study from Public Health England, and that 48% of over 2,000 blokes and women surveyed by YouGov admitted to doing no cardio exercise …
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Reviewed: new Honda HR-V 1.6 i-DTEC EX manual
The original HR-V from 1999 may indeed have been radical as one of the market’s earliest crossovers, its name standing for ‘Hi-rider Revolutionary Vehicle’, but for me it still conjures up amphibious vehicle images, especially in that garish yellowy colour. Fortunately, like a goofy kid who dropped off the face …
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MG joins the SUV ranks with its GS. We spent a week with one.
With HP sauce now churned out in the land known for tulips, windmills and a liberal attitude to smoking more pungent substances, and fashion from another British institution, M&S, predominantly stitched together in places like Sri Lanka, maybe nobody nowadays gives a monkey’s about where brands’ goods are made. Car …
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Audi RS Q3 performance: nonsensical or comically good?
The world is full of ‘just because’ stuff, from motorised ice cream cones and heated butter knives to electronic gadgets for drying one’s lugholes, and smart belts that tighten or loosen automatically depending on how much one’s eaten. Then there’s the Audi RS Q3 performance, the introduction of which intimates …
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Jaguar F-Pace 2.0d R-Sport AWD – full, impartial road-test review
With many car brands having done so already, it was inevitable that Coventry would introduce its own SUV to compete in this positively booming market segment. Formerly purveyors of wafting limousines and creamy British GTs in the main, Jaguar has, with Tata’s help, made great strides in luring company car …
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New Suzuki Baleno Boosterjet SZ5: full road-test
You may not have twigged, but Suzuki sold a fairly forgettable car in the UK under the Baleno moniker in the mid-nineties to the early noughties. It may seem a trifle odd to learn that the all-new model is yet another smallish car from Suzuki, sitting above the Celerio but …
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Driven: all-new Kia Optima ‘4’
Rather like deep-fried bone marrow or squid in ink, the Kia Optima has never really seen much take-up in good ol’ conservative Blighty, preconceptions holding people back. Kia’s hoping the all-new version of its saloon will coax people into having a bite and hopefully becoming fans. As a motoring writer …
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All-new Kia Sportage 1.7 CRDi 2 Eco – full road test
It may come as a surprise that the Kia Sportage is Europe’s fourth most successful compact crossover, outselling even the Range Rover Evoque and racking up 105,317 units across the continent in 2015 in an 8% annual increase. As an incredibly popular model, the outgoing Sportage certainly wasn’t broken by …
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