LOVE them or not quite made up your mind, electric cars are here to stay and not surprisingly the focus is on what the battery can achieve.
With current mutterings of some being capable of over 600 miles on a charge and new research hinting of the possibility of them being made without highly expensive lithium (cobalt has already been ditched by BYD), let’s get back to the real world and sample Mazda’s first toe in what are becoming very muddy waters. Continue reading
HONDA have slotted another hybrid SUV into their range between the HR-V and CR-V – and with its ‘out of sight’ bits the same as the Civic, you’re odds-on looking at a winner.
ZR-V has its own look with a distinctive grille and sleek headlights and while there’s only a single engine option in the ZR-V, it’s a pretty good one. Continue reading
REMEMBER the good old Nokia phone, the one with a battery that lasted for weeks?
They were supplied by a Chinese company that now, 28 years on, are very much into producing new energy vehicles. Continue reading
CONTRARY to popular belief, not everyone wants to drive around in SUVs.
So thank goodness there are still manufacturers who are prepared to take a punt and have a true two seater sports car on offer, as well as the usual fare in their sales brochures.
Take a bow, Toyota. Continue reading
AWARDS? You name it, Hyundai’s stylish IONIQ 5 has probably won it in the last couple of years.
Sitting on a shelf somewhere are the gongs for 2022 World Car of the Year, World Electric Vehicle of the Year and World Car Design of the Year. Continue reading
WHEN Skoda binned its popular Yeti model in favour of the Karoq, caravanners up and down the country donned black armbands and took a moment or two to mark its passing.
What had been a decent towcar for their weekend jaunts was no more, but actually they needn’t have worried – the car that replaced it was more than up to the task. And the proof of that is in the fact it’s just driven off with the Caravan and Motorhome Club’s title of Towcar of the Year, leaving a whole host of worthy competitors in its rear view mirror. Continue reading
THERE’S no escaping the fact the SsangYong Rexton is a big vehicle – the sight of its massive new grille in your rear view mirror will make the point.
And while it might not immediately have the kudos of some of its large SUV opposition, it’s come a fair way since it first lumbered onto our shores nearly two decades ago.
Then it was dubbed big, cheap and didn’t have a lot to recommend it. Continue reading
I CAN’T for the life of me imagine the great Steve McQueen being over-impressed.
The man who made a habit of driving racing cars very fast, the man who put the muscley Mustang right up there among the motoring icons with his exploits in Bullit would probably be scratching his head and give the latest Ford to carry the name one of ‘those’ looks.
Not that you’ll find the blue oval anywhere on the latest all-electric Mustang.
This is very much a 21st century ‘Stang, be in no doubt about that. Continue reading
THERE’S a distinct possibility you might have already read quite a lot about Kia’s latest version of their popular Sportage.
It’s a car that has sold as much on its looks as its undoubted practicality for the UK family in the past. And now it looks smarter still. Continue reading
VOLKSWAGEN seem to be trying to capture the burgeoning SUV market all on their own these days.
Such is their devotion to it (it accounted for over 40 per cent of VW sales last year) there are now eight models in their range with the inclusion of the new coupe styled Taigo.
It is, on the face of it, a strong addition to the line-up and working on the premis that style is a strong selling point for buyers, they’ve not missed a trick with this one. Continue reading