Tag: review
Formula One review of the year: Stars and gripes of the 2011 season | Paul Weaver
From the rain of the Canadian Grand Prix to the pain surrounding the Bahrain race that wasn’t Best race Canada – and I almost missed it. There was a two-hour delay because of rain and because of time differences and deadlines we all had to start writing halfway through the race. We had our heads [...]
Review of the 2011 Formula One season | Giles Richards
Sebastian Vettel found another gear his rivals could not match but the season’s best piece of overtaking was by Mark Webber RACE OF THE SEASON The Canadian Grand Prix: a stone cold classic as well as being the longest ever to count towards the world championship at 4hr 4min 39sec. Jenson Button won after pitting [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Car review: McLaren MP4-12C
The new McLaren supercar is good enough for Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, but would you pay £150,000? Not everyone can boast test drivers of the calibre of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, but then the launch of the first volume-production sports car from the iconic McLaren F1 stable is no ordinary event. It’s more [...]
