Car review: Vauxhall Meriva
Suffering from back pain? Chuck out the Nurofen and buy a new Vauxhall Meriva – soon to be hated by osteopaths Price £12,995 MPG 57.6CO2 per km 129 grams It’s one of the trickiest and potentially more embarrassing manoeuvres a driver has to perform – the roadside loo break. Crouching in the lee of an [...]
Car review: Citroën DS3
The DS of the 1950s may have been divinely inspired, but will Citroën’s new DS3 win a cult following? Price £10,875 MPG 48.7Top speed 114mph For some fearful souls, danger lurks round every corner. But when I told my young daughter’s friend that there was a shark riding in the back of Citroën’s new supermini, [...]
Wheels | Peugeot 3008
Peugeot’s 3008 is a 2×4 that likes to look, think and behave like a 4×4 PEUGEOT 3008 £17,495MILES PER GALLON: 55.4 CO2 PER KM: 137 GRAMS GOOD FOR: HIGH FLYERS BAD FOR: GROUND CREWS Here’s something you may not know you needed: a car which can launch a glider. At long last, I hear you [...]
wheels | Renault Clio 200 Cup
It’s a Renault Clio, but not as you know it. Martin Love straps himself into an old-style hot hatch RENAULTSPORT 200 CUP CLIO£15,750TOP SPEED: 141MPHMILES PER GALLON: 34.4GOOD FOR: SPEED FREAKSBAD FOR: SPEED BUMPSMud snorkelling, naked cycling, speed eating… I’m happy to take my sporting pleasures where I find them, but I didn’t imagine I’d [...]
Car review: Lexus 250 ISC | Martin Love
Lexus’s luxurious new four-seat convertible should be a no brainer. But Martin Love finds himself in two minds LEXUS 250 ISC£34,550MILES PER GALLON: 31CO2 PER KM: 214 GRAMSGOOD FOR: MAYBAD FOR: DECEMBERIt is an irony of modern life that the more choice we are offered, the less we seem able to make a decision. We [...]
Car review: Peugeot RCZ
Peugeot celebrates an impressive milestone with the launch of its RCZ – just don’t say it looks like an Audi Price £19,593 MPG 40.90-60mph 8.3 seconds Remember the last time you bought a car? The poring over comparison websites, the cold anguish of price, the heady realisation that you were at last dumping the old [...]
Car review: VW Polo
Compact, tough, aggressive… The new Polo would make a great rugby player VW POLOFROM £9,435MILES PER GALLON: 51.4CO2 PER KM: 128 GRAMS GOOD FOR: RUCKS & MAULSBAD FOR: SHOPPING MALLS The charismatic coach of my young son’s rugby team – a front-row veteran of many campaigns and a fearsome master of the dark arts of [...]
Wheels | Subary Legacy Tourer
The Subaru Legacy Tourer is a master of disguise SUBARU LEGACY TOURER£23,295CO2 PER KM: 148 GRAMSMILES PER GALLON: 54.4GOOD FOR: FAST ROADSBAD FOR: SMALL LOADS Christian Louboutin gives his stilettos blood-red soles, Paul Smith lines his jackets with candy stripes… and Subaru pierces the bonnets of its cars with exquisite sculpted air-intakes. A promising bulge, [...]
Car review: Vauxhall Astra
It’s one of Vauxhall’s best-ever cars. But will the Astra be GM’s star performer? VAUXHALL ASTRAFROM £16,010MILES PER GALLON: 51.4CO2 PER KM: 129 GRAMSGOOD FOR: OPENING UPBAD FOR: CLOSING DOWN They say it’s usually darkest just before dawn. And the past six months have certainly seen Vauxhall and its parent company General Motors face some [...]
Why the car you drive says nothing about you
It used to be so easy – German-built good; made in Japan bad. But these days, cars are learning to keep their owner’s secrets So, what you driving these days?” It’s an innocuous question, and one that’s posed with blood-cooling regularity. At face value, it’s just a dull, conversational opener. No one’s actually interested in [...]