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Car review: Lexus 250 ISC | Martin Love

Car review: Lexus 250 ISC | Martin Love

| July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Why the car you drive says nothing about you

Why the car you drive says nothing about you

| July 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

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 [...]

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Volvo C30 R-Design | Martin Love

Volvo C30 R-Design | Martin Love

| July 8, 2010 | 0 Comments

For years it was a euphemism for tedium, but the new generation of Volvos is – steady now – exciting Close your eyes for a moment and think of Volvo. What’s the first image that floats into your mind? Is it a slab-sided, square-shouldered estate? Can you see the driver? He’s probably a grey-haired pensioner [...]

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Car review: The Yeti and the Bipper Tepee | Martin Love

Car review: The Yeti and the Bipper Tepee | Martin Love

| July 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

What’s in a name? Two new cars bring a little fun to the po-faced world of automotive nomenclatures My youngest daughter used to go to nursery school with a pair of twins. Their names, magnificently, were Hosanna and Goodnews. You may not be surprised to learn that their father was a missionary. I could never [...]

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Car review: electric cars | Martin Love

Car review: electric cars | Martin Love

| June 21, 2010 | 0 Comments

The new generation of electric cars is going further than ever before – or so current thinking goes… If you have ever driven a remote-control toy car, you will have experienced – in miniature – the pros and cons of driving a full-scale, grown-up electric vehicle (EV). You’ll have appreciated the instant, clean power harnessed [...]

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