As we explained while lambasting the Polo BlueMotion last month, an eco-car must combine the thrills of its full-fat brethren with the drinking habit of a teetotal camel. Dullness in the name of green will not be tolerated. But what...
California, especially the northern bit, is purpose-built for driving romantics. Out here, you’re the star in your own private movie. It’s happening right now, though we might have inadvertently cast ourselves in the wrong film. We’re on the edge of...
Range Rover is playing a dicey game. For years, this TDV8 has spearheaded the diesel range and clobbered aside the smaller V6 with vast swathes of torque. But in this latest-gen Sport range, the smaller engine has been replaced by...
Let’s get straight to the point – if you live somewhere in the world where tarmac roads are hard to come by and you measure annual rainfall in metres, then the Toyota Land Cruiser is the car for you. Here...
Forget yer 335bhp TT RS, with its big face and ooh-so-postmodern quattro references. Indecently rapid though the five-cylinder flagship is, the TT has always made most sense in front-wheel-drive base-spec form, and you can’t get your TT Roadster any more...
Let’s start with the noise. This 911 – the second ‘997′ to wear the Turbo badge – produces a deep soundblast of whooshes, woofles and faint artillery booms. A racecar whirr cuts through the sonic mayhem to remind you that,...
If you read our Stig-fest in Top Gear magazine, you’ll know the manual 370Z didn’t do especially well. In isolation it’s a great car, but against all that hardcore metal, it felt a bit soft. But Nissan acknowledges that it...
At the forefront of many a mind at this precise moment will be the word ‘why?’ Possibly prefaced by ‘Dear’ and ‘God’. The X1 is the latest in an increasingly long line of confused and confusing BMW products. Much like...
This is the best Saab on sale. I know, I know: right now, in the months before the new 9-5 big car and 9-4 crossover become available, being the best of Saabs is like being the healthiest patient in intensive...
Hardly anyone makes cheap, rugged, separate-chassis 4x4s any more. The Kia Sorento was among that dying breed, and folk who pull heavy trailers up slippery slopes were grateful for its three-tonne towing rating and its low-ratio transfer box. But Kia...
