BIG Brother has come to the SEAT range with the launch of the new Tarraco.
Following in the wheeltracks of the hugely successful Ateca and Arona – cars that have helped the Spanish brand be the fastest growing in the UK market – Tarraco becomes the flagship model in the range.
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SKODA KAROQ SPORTLINE: holding its own in tough company
IT’S not just Paloma who’s got faith in the latest Skodas – the motoring public have seen the light too.
Long, long gone are the utilitarian models of old, replaced by cars that are bang up to date and offer a wide and varied selection for all sorts of owners.
CUPRA ATECA: wraps off a very quick SUV
WITH SUVs being the car of choice for many, there was an inevitability about the arrival of a very quick one.
And it comes from an all-new brand, although you may recognise the car in question.
Cupra has been a trim level used by SEAT for some time, but from now on will stand alone as a pukka range, in the same way Citroen have done it with DS.
KIA e-Niro: The Watt Age is well and truly here
STYLISH? Tick. Range anxiety alleviated? Tick. User friendly? Double tick.
Meet the Kia e-Niro, a car that successfully combines two of the fastest growing motoring trends – smart crossover styling with full electric power.
TOYOTA PRIUS: motoring along to the sound of silence….
THE last week has been spent in near silent driving mode, in a vehicle that is the transport of choice for a multitude of mini cab drivers here in Milton Keynes. And probably elsewhere.
Starting up Toyota’s latest Prius is a bit like coming across some motorway roadworks – you begin to wonder if anything is actually going on.
FORD KA+ ACTIVE: baby, look at you now!
FORD’S KA has been a popular small city car among those whose budgets were a little on the tight side – a bit like the space inside.
Around town it was in its element, small and manoeuverable, but not the sort of car you’d drive to the middle of France and back, though I know someone who did undertake that very trip some years back.
But the car you’ll find in the Ford sales brochures now bears very little similarity to the original 1996 version.
PEUGEOT 508: something a little different
WHEN it comes to car design, no one has ever accused the French of re-inventing the wheel.
And while some might think they have done just that with the squared-off offering used to point the wheels on the all new Peugeot 508, they’d be wrong.
FORD FOCUS TITANIUM X: still the ideal car for many
FOCUS is a family favourite that mirrors a fine wine – it just gets better with age.
And the current incumbent wearing that blue oval Ford badge proves the point, offering the family motorist a package that ticks most of the boxes if their choice is a traditional hatchback.
FORD FIESTA ST: the pocket rocket lives
FORD’S Fiesta ST is the sort of car dentists love. Not necessarily to drive, but because it provides them with an endless stream of hapless victims.
The sort of car you find yourself groping around in the footwell to find your fillings. Because suspension travel is, shall we be generous here, minimal.
Not really the car for the family man, then, who would find his offspring vomiting into the door pockets after a few miles of any spirited motoring.
KIA CEED: an easy, clear cut decision
FOR cee’d, read Ceed – the name has changed slightly, and there are changes afoot in the latest incarnation of the car that changed the way we think about Kia.
So much so that the Euro designed, Euro built hatch is a very much oft-seen addition to UK roads.
Sketched at the company’s European design centre in Frankfurt and built in Slovakia, it’s very much a European car, which may or may not tempt you into ownership in the current political climate.