Category: Car Reviews
Volvo S60
The Swedish-built, Chinese-owned car company (previous owners Ford sold the Swedish marque to Chinese car maker Geely for £1.2bn in March) has always been a world leader in safety, but the new S60 comes with two award-winning innovations: the Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake and City Safety. Both use a radar unit hidden in [...]
Car review: Jeep Wrangler
Built for the Wild West but sentenced to a life on the road, the Wrangler could be a country & western ballad Price £24,190 MPG 30.1Top speed 107mph The sweaty-headed banker sitting next to me at a charity comedy evening didn’t know what to make of the first act. “Is it a man?” he whispered, [...]
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, [...]
