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
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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
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
FORD CAPRI: will bigger electric SUV become another classic?
IF they ever did an up-to-date remake of `Only Fools and Horses’ the opening scene would have Del Boy scratching his head.
“What have they done with my Capri Ghia, Rodders ?” He might say. For a modern day Capri bears absolutely no resemblance to the sleek coupe of the 70s and 80s that we all loved. Continue reading
KIA EV4 GT-Line: hatchback looks will win it friends
HERE’s a refreshing change from a world filled with electric crossover SUVs – it’s one that actually looks like a good old fashioned hatchback.
Kia’s first electric hatchback is also their first fully electric vehicle to be built in Europe.
And it’s hugely impressive. If I had to rate it then it would be up there as probably the very best EV driven in the past few months. Continue reading
KIA EV5 Air: A boost to Kia’s electric appeal
ITS big squared off presence might make you think the design team left early on a Friday afternoon and didn’t round it off.
But it’s a Kia feature – take a look at the EV9 and there’s a distinct similarity. Eye catching it certainly is with its distinctive lighting up front. Continue reading
NISSAN QASHQAI N-DESIGN e-POWER: still the go-to Nissan SUV
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NO disrespect intended, but when Nissan’s new SUV was first launched back in 2007, many wondered whether naming a car after a desert dwelling nomadic tribe from South West Iran would guarantee sales in Europe?
Nissan obviously thought and hoped so, because that’s where the name for their then-quirky looking Qashqai came from. Continue reading
SUZUKI e VITARA: it can take the rough with the smooth
You’ll be glad to know there’s another new electric car on the market – and even happier to be told it’s from a manufacturer you might have actually heard of….
The all new Suzuki e Vitara is a first for the Japanese firm, and the model it’s named after will be familiar to many who have bought it in the past. In fact the Vitara name has been successfully sold around the world for the past 37 years. Continue reading