FOR all the knockers who smugly spout the line that French cars are all style and no build quality, here’s a bit of advice: bite hard and swallow.
There’s no denying the all new Peugeot 508 SW is a very smartly styled estate car – something the French have proved quite adept at over the years, although on the debit side there have been the occasional howlers along the way.
MORE than 1.3 miilion motorists can’t be wrong, so you’re very unlikely to be buying a pig in a poke with Kia’s latest model.
I’ve always been a big fan of the Ceed. Now we can proceed on to look at the ProCeed, a new model which just serves to increase the admiration, with its low, sleek look and Panamera-like rear end treatment.
A CAR for active lifestyles – or a van with a few more windows and extra seats?
Whatever shade of contact lenses you’re viewing it through, you can’t escape the fact Vauxhall’s Combo Life is probably one of the most practical vehicles you can buy if your family is larger than the UK norm.
BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder, and to that oft used question ‘Would you?’ I’d reply ‘Yes, I probably would’.
Before eyebrows start raising, I should point out we’re talking about a car here, and not one you might have given much of a second glance to before.
THEY say you’re safer in a modern day Volvo than going for a walk with the Green Cross Code man.
Very reassuring when the standard of everyday driving seems to be on the wane. And more so when the car you’re sampling is Volvo’s new XC40.
LOOKS like our chums across the channel have had another one of those extended lunches swilling Ricard and smoking some exotic substances.
How else would they come up with something as wayward on the inside as the DS3 Crosshatch, something so completely opposite to the more restful and sometimes staid interiors we enjoy on a majority of cars these days.
Over the decades the French have been noted for coming up with some leftfield ideas and designs, and this one is no different.
IN profile it might look as if someone big and heavy has sat on the rear of the roof but the Range Rover Evoque is a real deal style icon.
Its falling roofline and rising beltline gives it an aggressive, almost-coupe like appearance but it’s unmistakably a Range Rover. There are Velar touches to the latest variant – the slimmer front lights and the flush fitting door handles, and the odd bit of contrasting rose gold trim front and rear.
YOU wouldn’t realistically expect the interior of a Skoda to have the same sort of classy premium interior you’ll find on other VW Group products. But the new Scala has.
Skoda‘s latest model to hit UK shores quite adequately sums up the Czech firm’s progress over the past few years – impressive.
The Scala is Skoda’s model to plug the gap between Fabia (small hatch) and Octavia (big hatch/saloon/estate).
SOMEONE, somewhere is going to be the lucky owner of a very exclusive car this summer.
What is officially the 100,000th Lotus car to be produced has a very special link with the late, great Jim Clark, the Scottish farmer who took the Formula One world by storm in the 1960s.
The trust that runs the museum that bears his name in the sleepy Scottish border town of Duns has been given a Lotus Evora GT410 Sport in ‘Clark’ colours – red with a silver roof and tartan seats to match the Elan he drove in the 60s – to help fund the new museum that was due to open in July. And it’s been signed by all 20 F1 drivers from this season.
THEY say the most under employed man in the motor industry is the one who puts the indicator stalks on BMWs.
Well, they’re not things that get used a great deal here in Milton Keynes either, where guessing what people are going to do on the many roundabouts and dual carriageways is one of the most popular pastimes.