PULL up at a filling station and there’s near 100 per cent certainty that you’ll be able to top up, which might not be the case if you’re down to your last 20 miles in your electric car.
One of the reasons there is still a healthy clamouring for petrol and diesel vehicles, despite what Miliband and his team are trying to force us all into.
It’s like being told to run before you can properly walk and hence the resistance from chunks of the motoring public. Continue reading
SUZUKI has been celebrating 55 years of its ALLGRIP 4×4 technology – and we’ve had the chance to put some of the models from years gone by through their paces on a rugged Welsh hillside.
It’s not often manufacturers give journalists carte blanche to drive a wide selection of variants – from the Grand Vitara through the little Jimny to the popular Swift – on rough terrain with very little restrictions, but that is evidence of the faith Suzuki have in their overall ability to tackle all types of terrain. Continue reading
THE estate car was the ‘go to’ vehicle of choice back in the day for the family man who needed a car for all reasons.
Seemingly a dying breed of transport for quite a few years since the advent of the SUV, there’s still a place for them on our roads.
Audi knows that, and their latest A5 Avant (the posh name for an estate) replaces the A4 Avant on a brand new platform. Continue reading
WHILE electric car sales in the UK have slowed to rush hour speed, there doesn’t seen to be any stopping BYD in their quest to get to the front of the queue.
Their latest all-electric offering, the SEALION 7, is an SUV version of the saloon Seal and is their fourth model to hit the UK in the last couple of years. Continue reading
SOMETIMES you’re left scratching your head wondering how car manufacturers come up with their model names.
But the answer is fairly simple. They just make them up. Hence the new Skoda Elroq is a mix of ‘electric’ and ‘Karoq’ – a portmanteau in some circles. Continue reading
THE past week has been spent in near silent driving mode, in the latest incarnation of a vehicle that has been the transport of choice for a multitude of mini cab drivers here in Milton Keynes. And probably elsewhere.
Yes, the Toyota Prius is back on sale in the UK, only this time the third generation of the car that was an early forerunner of electrified performance is an altogether sleeker proposition aimed at a different buyer. Continue reading
IN a world where cars are getting bigger and heavier, the Mazda2 is a refreshing deviation from the norm.
Compact and bijou, it also makes a compelling case for anyone considering a hybrid before it gets taken away from the buying option on your shopping list. Continue reading
KIA’S electric car range has been rendered soul-less – but only because they’ve replaced the Soul EV with the EV3 as its smallest electric car in the range.
The newcomer sits below the Niro EV, EV6 and EV9, and you don’t have to look too hard to see a strong family resemblance between the smallest and the largest. Continue reading
IT used to be one of life’s great mysteries as to why Honda could make some great road car engines but the ones in the back of F1 cars were, to put it bluntly, a bit of a dog.
They put that one firmly to bed with their link up with Red Bull Racing but thankfully some things never change – their passenger car engines still seem as unburstable as ever.
ON first glance it might not strike you as an SUV but what’s before you here can be viewed as a more butch version of the popular Ateca.
The CUPRA Formentor is aimed squarely – or, rather, not-so squarely – at buyers who want an SUV that doesn’t look box-shaped and boring. Not that the Ateca is boring.
Sleek, stylish, sporty and decently equipped, it also scores well as a family car. Continue reading