WHEN the world’s largest maker of EVs and PHEVs hit UK shores a few years ago, people were saying “BYD who?”
Not so now, as the brand is firmly established as an importer with an ever growing range of cars on offer to UK motorists. Continue reading
Author Archives: Rob Auchterlonie
KIA EV2 AIR: an EV with designs on sales success
Here’s a car from the Lego brick school of car design that you’ll probably be seeing a lot of on UK roads.
It’s the sort of shape a young child (or even my wife) would come up with if you asked them to draw a car. Continue reading
HYUNDAI SANTA FE: Lego brick look hides loads of family space
Looking for a big family car that’s going to catch the eye of your neighbours – or anyone else giving it a casual sideways glance?
Hyundai’s revised Santa Fe might look as boxy as an old Volvo estate but you’d have had a job cramming seven people into one of them. Continue reading
TOYOTA C-HR+: same name but it’s not the same
It might use the same name but there’s a big difference between Toyota’s C-HR and C-HR+.
The latter is all new, on a new platform, and sports a new coupe SUV look.
C-HR offers hybrid or plug-in hybrid motoring, but C-HR+ doesn’t, following the ever growing trend to dispose of internal combustion in favour of 100 per cent electric power.
KIA PV5 PASSENGER ‘PLUS’: the space is just van-tastic
IF you’ve ever thought the ID.Buzz was the vehicle for you but baulked at the high price, we might just have come across a suitable alternative.
Kia have taken their light commercial van, reworked it for those of us who like a bit more room for the family and launched the PV5 Passenger. Continue reading
KGM MUSSO RHINO: more refinement, more capability, more comfort
YOU get a different view of life when all you can see from behind the wheel is clear blue sky as you drive up the side of a sizeable incline.
Even more so when you crest the rise and start heading back down. Continue reading
VOLKSWAGEN ID.7 TOURER: bringing on back the good times
BACK when I was a lad the estate car was the ‘go to’ vehicle of choice for the family man who needed a car for all reasons.
And though seemingly a dying breed of transport for quite a few years since the advent of the SUV, there’s still a place for them on our roads. Continue reading
SUZUKI e VITARA ULTRA: the first of the four
THE all electric version of Suzuki’s Vitara is the first of a quartet of battery electric vehicles (BEV) from the Japanese manufacturer in the next few years.
The brand has very much built its sales base on loyalty – seven out of 10 customers are those buying another Suzuki, which says a lot about brand satisfaction. The aim for e Vitara is for it to be responsible for a third of all future sales. Continue reading
GEELY STARRAY EM-i: a Chinese takeaway to savour
IF you’re in the market for a Chinese takeaway you could do worse than looking at Geely’s current menu.
For as well as owning Volvo, Lotus, Polestar, smart (in part with Mercedes) and Zeekr (which you can’t buy here yet) they’re also into making cars with their own name on the back. Continue reading
What an experience! Coming to a museum near you
FOR the first time in the UK, the unique world of Forza Horizon is stepping off the screen and into the real home of British motoring.
The British Motor Museum has announced the launch of Forza Horizon 6 The Experience, a bold new exhibition, running from May to the end of November, where digital car culture meets real-world motoring, created in partnership with the critically acclaimed Midlands-based developers of the Forza Horizon series, Playground Games.
As with every Forza Horizon game, players are participants of a ‘Horizon Festival,’ a celebration of cars and music taking place at various locations around the world. Continue reading