2011 Volvo S60 D3 Momentum (E)
Look back twenty or thirty years, and there was far less choice on the automotive market. There were fewer different models, and consequently a small ...
SEAT – 60 years of history
When I left the main area of the Auto Retro Barcelona, and came out on to the road which bisects the Fira Barcelona site, I found a long line of SEAT ...
2009 Volkswagen Beetle 2.5S Blush (USA)
One of the reasons why the VW Beetle achieved such an enormous sales success during its many years in production was because the Americans took the ca...
2010 Infiniti QX56 4WD (USA)
When Infiniti launched in Europe just over a year ago, not all the cars that are featured in the range were included. The absence of the 5-series riva...
Auto Retro Barcelona – December 2010
With Britain gripped in the jaws of Siberian weather that shows no sign of abating, the temptation to escape for a weekend of relative warmth and suns...
2009 Ford Focus SE 4dr Sedan (USA)
Every few years, it seems, Ford announces in a fanfare of publicity that its latest offering is truly a "World Car". We saw this when the first genera...
2010 Volkswagen Jetta 2.5S (USA)
In Europe, the Golf is King. Not just for Volkswagen, but as the best selling vehicle across a number of markets, a position it has occupied for many ...
2011 Chevrolet Traverse LT AWD (USA)
Badge engineering: the term applied to many cars in the 1950s and 1960s, when a round of mergers and acquisitions had seen once former rivals part of ...
2010 Honda Civic LX Sedan (USA)
Although the 1976 launch of the Accord is widely credited with transforming Honda's reputation, and sales success, and propelling the company hitherto...
Los Angeles Auto Show – November 2010
Although the North American International Auto Show held in January every year remains the Number One show in America, it has its challenges, not the ...