IT’S only been 12 months since BYD started selling their electric cars here in the UK – and now they’re branching out into the plug-in hybrid market.
I’m going to go all Michael Caine here because not a lot of people know this (it was news to me) but BYD was the first manufacturer to mass produce a PHEV back in 2008. It wasn’t exactly a success, but the game has moved on.
KIA shed their bargain basement tag many years ago now, but a good value package is still very much what motorists are buying into.
‘Sportage’ is a bit of a misnomer as it’s not really that sporty, but it’s a car that very adequately does all the boring bits of daily life – weekly shopping, the school run, commuting – and does it with a bit of style. Continue reading
IF you want to stand out in a crowded car park pick a big Audi. If you want to stand out on a satellite picture from outer space pick one in Soneira red metallic.
It’s certainly the most eye catching colour that has graced a test car in our hands for many a month. Years even. Continue reading
AS one of the world’s best selling cars, Toyota’s Corolla and been around a while and seen quite a few changes over the years.
And the latest incarnation is a far cry from my first acquaintance with this Japanese legend in the depths of Norway over 40 years ago. Continue reading
IS there a more aptly named car out there than Skoda’s Superb?
Asking for a friend here, but I already know the answer.
Superb Skodas are actually nothing new – there’s been one in the range since 2002, and even long before that. Continue reading
DIFFERENT week, same car. Well, not exactly, as we’re now fully electric as opposed to the petrol power of last week’s KGM Torres.
In reality, pretty well exactly the same as the petrol version sampled earlier – all that differs is what’s under the bonnet and the price. In this guise, the K40 EVX costs £47,495, so around 10k more than the similarly specced petrol variant. Continue reading
IT might spark a bit of a love-hate ‘marmite’ moment, but there’s no denying the KGM Torres gets people talking.
Park it in the golf club car park and pretty soon you can see the surreptitious glances and before long there are people sidling up to take a closer look. Continue reading
IS there anything more annoying than not being able to get into your car just as the heavens open?
Any delay, in the circumstances, is frustrating and the longer your all-electric (and hence no key) transport refuses to play ball borders on the fuming.
SOMETHING that’s a smaller version of SEAT’s pretty decent Ateca is a car that’s heading in the right direction – onto a lot of driveways.
Since it arrived on sale in the UK, the Arona has been one of the Spanish firm’s best sellers, selling in even greater numbers than the Ibiza, on which it’s based. Continue reading
THERE was no real compelling reason for Volkswagen to make wholesale changes to their popular Tiguan SUV – but that hasn’t stopped them.
Not content with over 7.5 million sales worldwide since it hit the streets, the new third generation version has been extensively revised both inside and out to make it an even better proposition for the family SUV buyer. Continue reading