FANCY a bit of extreme motoring? Then Audi’s blisteringly quick ‘light the blue touch paper’ TT RS is the car for you.
It’s a car that has been successively honed and improved since its debut in 1999 as a real jaw dropper – so much so that there was a hefty trade in left hand drive models from abroad for those who couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of a pukka RHD version.
HOW about this for timing – on the day the Peugeot 308 was announced as Car of the Year, we bring you our thoughts on the classy French hatchback.
And if you thought the 208 was a step in the right direction for Peugeot, wait till you get a close up look at the new 308.
THE myth of the Yeti was shattered a long time ago. No longer are they one of the unseen wonders of the world – we’ve all spotted one at some time or another.
Thanks to Top Gear and one J Clarkson, everyone wanted the four wheeled variety as sold by Skoda, meaning in actuality they were kind of a rarity as the waiting list grew and grew.
VOLKSWAGEN have invented the one pedal electric car, a vehicle so easy to drive even Mr Bean could work out how to get from A to B in it.
Of course there are actually two pedals in the e-up! but you can effectively make do with one – and we did on our round town test route.
BEING disappointed with a Golf GTI is about as likely as Alastair Darling’s eyebrows turning white overnight.
Some might be at odds with its sometimes seemingly harsh ride which can at times make your eyeballs vibrate in their sockets like a ball on a bagatelle table - but that’s all dependent on the quality of the road surface of course.
IT was, on the face of it, probably the most under-anticipated car scheduled to turn up ready for appraisal. Boy, how wrong can you be?
Vauxhall’s Insignia has never been a car that has evoked more than mild interest in me – about as likely to spark a reaction as an impassioned plea from the other half for a bit of retail therapy.
BENTLEY. The epitome of British Racing Green, the legend forever linked with those heady days of the 1920s when the Bentley Boys went racing in France and trounced the opposition. And then quaffed a large G and T or six afterwards.
Magnificent cars then, and they still are today.
HOLIDAY trippers will be more used to the name Dacia than car buyers in the UK – but that’s a situation that is changing by the day.
We hired a Dacia Logan earlier this year on a jaunt to Tenerife and despite the fact that in true rental car trim it had almost bald tyres and a dent or scrape on every panel, it did its job well conveying us round the island’s holiday hotspots.
THERE’S wacky and there’s wacky. And then there’s the Renault Captur – their seemingly off the wall slant on the current fad for producing supermini crossovers.
Talk about polarising opinion. I’ve yet to see one that wasn’t resplendent in a combination of colours and our test mule this week is no exception – oyster grey in the main, but with a metallic orangey bronze roof and exterior trim detailing that makes it stand out in any car park.
WITH downsizing the buzz word and costs escalating Honda’s Jazz is well placed the meet the needs of an ever more demanding motoring public.
And really, you can’t argue with its credentials – it’s won eight JD Power Customer Satisfaction awards on the trot, so they must be doing something right for their buyers.