2011 BMW 325i SE Convertible (D)
A couple of months ago I finally managed to sample my first E90 based BMW 3 Series car, receiving a rental car spec 318d SE model in Spain. My conclus...
2011 Audi A5 Coupe 2.0 TDi 170 Sport (GB)
Wednesday 8th March 1980. I remember it well. Wednesday was always my favourite day of the week, as it was the day that Autocar was published, and all...
2011 BMW 318d SE (E)
It is customary when writing a review for this site, or indeed in many other places, to preface the main assessment with some introductory and backgro...
2010 Audi A3 Sportback 1.6 Technik (GB)
When you rent a car from all but the smallest depots, there is usually some element of choice in the vehicle whose keys you acquire. For sure, it may ...
2011 Chevrolet Malibu 2.4LS (USA)
When a model has a short life between refreshes or complete replacement, you can tell one of a couple of things: either it simply was not very good, a...
2010 Cadillac STS 3.6 V6 AWD (USA)
In the near future, it would seem, Cadillac will replace not just the STS, a car I have been testing for a few days, but also the larger DTS models wi...
2010 Chrysler Sebring 2.7 V6 Limited Sedan (USA)
Ignoring for the moment the fact that the best selling vehicles in North America remain pick-up trucks, the traditional sedan still outsells...
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 BMW 530d SE (USA)
Driving through the Bavarian countryside in my latest test car, with a friend from Munich on board as passenger, we spotted some "classic" Fords parke...
2010 Chevrolet Aveo 1.2 LS 5dr Hatch (F)
I've been renting cars for long enough now to know that there are two things you can reasonably expect: surprise and coincedence. Both applied to my l...