Keeping the product fresh with additional or revised specification in the small car sectors is as important as the price. Take the Vauxhall Adam family of models. There is the Adam from £11,360 with its offspring the Adam Jam and Adam Slam. Next up the family tree is Adam Rocks at £13,995 and now head of the family is the £16,995 Adam S which has … [Read more...]
Roadtests
Weekend Roadtest: Honda CRV 1.6D SR 4WD
It’s easy to see why the Honda CR-V is one of the world’s best-loved Crossover models. With sales on a high, the popular CR-V has been updated and refreshed for 2015, with most of the improvements going on underneath. Out of sight they may be, but out-of-mind they are not because the reworked steering, ride and handling now comes with greater safety … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Skoda Octavia Scout 4×4
The third generation Skoda Octavia range of family sized – C-segment five door hatchbacks and estates is the brand’s equal top seller along with the new supermini B-segment Fabia hatchbacks and estates. The Octavia’s mainstream model line-up is wide ranging with prices from £16,525 for the lowest spec five door hatchback with a 1.2-litre, 105hp … [Read more...]
Citroen C4 Picasso 150 Exclusive
The Citroen C4 Picasso is a car which comes with an ahah. With the family MPV sector booming but so many models almost indistinguishable the C4 stands out from the rest. Not only is it very different from the outside with its finely detailed lights and body style but inside you enter a new-world experience with its column gear selector on the automatic … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Peugeot 308GT Hatchback
The award winning Peugeot 308 range of family friendly C-segment sized five door hatchbacks and SW estates has received an injection of sportier GT versions. The GT hatchback comes with a choice of two sports engines, a 1.6-litre THP turbocharged direct injection petrol unit with 205hp mated with a six-speed close ratio manual gearbox and priced at … [Read more...]
Weekend Roadtest: Tesla Model S P85D
The Tesla Model S P85D has to be the ultimate veggie option, a super-car you can order without any animal components. While most supercar dealers want to upsell leather and natural fibres for trim and upholstery, Tesla allows the greenest drivers of all to de-select them. Instead you can have synthetics or materials not derived from animals but plants … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Audi A3 Sportback e-tron
I have just had a longer driving spell with Audi’s first PHEV plug-in hybrid, the A3 Sportback e-tron. The A3 is Audi’s best selling model range with 45,581 sales last year putting it into the UK’s top ten sales chart for the first time. It finished the year in eighth position. The A3 range comprises of three door hatchbacks, the five door … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Mazda2 1.5 115ps SportNav
Mazda is breaking new ground with the latest city car. It has based the fourth generation new Mazda2 on the larger CX5 stablemate after its joint venture which produced the Ford Ka came to an end. The result is a larger Mazda2 than before which not only creates more room that makes it ride and handle better than before but it has also allowed Mazda to … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Skoda Fabia Estate 1.4TDI
The ‘supermini B-segment sized Skoda Fabia five door hatchback range was launched in January this year with prices from £10,600 and immediately was voted What Car? magazines Car of the Year and other awards have followed. Now the five door Fabia Estate range has joined the line-up priced from £12,460. With the same specification level options and a … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: SEAT Leon X-Perience 2.0TDI 150
SEAT hopes its newest estate will have the X-factor to win over thousands of UK buyers. A natural successor to the Ibiza, Exeo and Cordoba sports tourers, the newest addition to the Leon line-up offers a useful 587 to 1470 litres loadspace and room for up to five. There are SE and SE Technology trim levels with the emphasis on more sophisticated sound … [Read more...]
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