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HONDA HR-V: compact SUV ticks the eco boxes

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.

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TOYOTA COROLLA GR SPORT HATCHBACK: worldwide favourite improves with age

AS one of the world’s best selling cars, Toyota’s Corolla and been around a while and seen quite a few changes over the years.

And the latest incarnation is a far cry from my first acquaintance with this Japanese legend in the depths of Norway over 40 years ago. Continue reading

TOYOTA GR YARIS 1.6 TURBO 4WD: rally round for a real treat

HERE we have a car that is not actually well suited to the potholed collection of roads that make up our network – but it will have caught the attention of dentists up and down the land.

They’ll be sitting up and taking notice, not because their high fees mean they can afford one, but because they smell business.

And that’s because the super firm underpinnings of Toyota’s GR Yaris are more suited to rougher thoroughfares, and you might find your teeth fillings rolling around the footwell after a while…

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