Category: Car Reviews
The New Mercedes C Class
The latest C-Class Saloon boasts head-turning looks to match its dynamic driving characteristics. The reworked front section provides a dramatic focal point with SE and Elegance model lines incorporating a restyled bumper, air intakes and twin round fog lamps. The Sport model goes a step further with a bold new radiator grille and stylish LED [...]
McLaren MP4-12C review
Steve Sutcliffe The 12C is without question Britain’s most exciting new supercar, It’s also one of the fastest cars ever to be offered for use on the public road, with a claimed 0-60mph time of 3.1sec, 0-100mph in 6.1sec and a top speed of 205mph. It is priced around £168k At the centre of the [...]
Mercedes B Class Review
The Mercedes-Benz B-Class (codename W245) is a small family car introduced by German automaker Mercedes-Benz in March 2005. It is essentially an enlarged A-Class keeping the same engine and suspension system. Like the A-Class, and unlike any other vehicle Mercedes builds or has built, the B-Class is a front wheel drive vehicle. Mercedes-Benz describes this [...]
Lexus CT 200h
The Lexus CT 200h is built at the Toyota factory in Kyushu, Japan. For the Malaysian market, UMW Toyota Motor has introduced two variants – the Lexus CT 200h and Lexus CT 200h Luxury. Customers have a choice of 7 exterior colours, of which two – Fire Agate Mica Metallic and Flare Yellow Mica Metallic [...]
Mercedes A Class Review
A-Class scores on several counts. It’s an intelligent compromise between city car and people-carrier, it’s undoubtedly practical, reliable and stylish and it’s got the Stuttgart star on the grille. Pumped-up small hatches might not be to everyone’s taste, but they’re certainly the flavour of the moment. Daewoo’s Matiz does a similar sort of job at [...]
Audi A3 TDI 1.6
By Anthony Andrew Guardian Context is all. Earlier this year I drove a black Audi A3 up into the hills of the Cévennes, that area of southern France that acts as a kind of bucolic refuge for Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who never really adapted to the failure of their 1968 dreams. As a consequence, it’s [...]
Lewis’s McLaren MP4-26 car still unreliable
By Alan Davies The Herts-born F1 driver climbs into the McLaren cockpit for the final day of pre-season testing in Spain knowing the team’s 2011 challenger is still struggling out on track. Hamilton’s team-mate, former world champion Jenson Button, completed just 57 laps of the Circuit de Catalunya on day three of the concluding Barcelona [...]
Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG estate
Looking for a family wagon fit for the balding middle-aged boy racer? The E63 AMG estate is as OMG as they get. It’s a quarter of a century since Nancy Fields, now 62, passed her driving test. But since then Nancy has never driven on a motorway, not once, not a single mile. She has [...]
Nissan 370Z
Pit it against its closest rivals and the new two-seat 370Z from Nissan will win every time. But who’s counting? You don’t have to be car literate to understand the point Nissan is driving home with its advertising for its new two-seater, the 370Z. Beneath the banner line “Kaisers chiefed” – a layered reference to [...]
Seat Leon Cupra R
Seat (pronounced Say-at) celebrates another milestone this year, as it is 60 years since it was founded as the Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo. Despite making some memorable cars, the Spanish firm spent decades teetering on the brink until Volkswagen came to its rescue, buying half of it in 1986 and the rest in [...]
