2012 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen 2.5SE (USA)
America does not do estates cars. Not even when they are called "wagons" as is the American way. It was not always so, with the "station w...
2012 Ford Mustang GT Premium (USA)
For much of the 1990s and early into the twentyfirst century, it looked like Ford was not sure what to do with the Mustang. The once proud...
2012 Ford Fiesta 1.25 82 Zetec 5 door (GB)
Excellence engenders sales success. Or so we are told and indeed would like to believe. Not always true in the automotive world, though, as there are ...
New Year’s Day Meet – “The Frog Mill”, Andoversford – 1st January 2013
The winter months are rather lean times for the car enthusiast, with precious little in the diary between the NEC Classic Car Show in mid November unt...
2012 Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDi 110 AWD SE Plus (GB)
Despite my best efforts and using various tricks in trying to source a drive in a wide variety of cars, sometimes it takes a long time t...
2012 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.4 GLS AWD 5 seat (USA)
When the government funded Scrappage Scheme was in operation in 2010, a lot of publicity went to the fact that one of the big sales winners was Hyunda...
2012 Nissan Sentra 2.0S (USA)
In America, Nissan has used the name Sentra for 30 years to denote its compact car. Back in 1982, a Sentra was the American market version of a car fa...
2012 GMC Acadia SLT2 AWD (USA)
When you hear GMC, hands up who thinks that they make trucks? Of course that is their heritage, but when GM spring cleaned the...
Los Angeles Auto Show – December 2012
Of the major Auto Shows that are held around the world that I manage to attend, the Los Angeles event is among my favourite. Not as dauntingly big as ...
2011 Mazda 6 2.5 iSport (USA)
The first car sold with Mazda 6 badging surprised everyone. After years when various iterat...