2018 Mazda Mazda6 Sport (USA)
When Tony Blair coined the phrase “Mondeo Man” at the 1996 Labour Party Conference it was because the Ford Mondeo, and for that matter, its direct riv...
2020 Mercedes-Benz A220 Sedan 4Matic (USA)
The first A Class Mercedes showed true innovation. It was not simply a scaled-down version of the larger C Class, but rather it was a packaging marvel...
2021 Mazda CX-9 Touring AWD (USA)
What Europeans would think of as large SUVs, but which to Americans are only a sort of mid-size offering, are big sellers in the North American market...
2019 Nissan Rogue Sport SL AWD (USA)
Needing a crossover model that is slightly smaller and cheaper than the established Rogue, to fill out their US range, starting with the 2017 model ye...
2020 Lexus NX300 Luxury (USA)
Whilst Japanese premium brand Lexus made its name on arrival in the market in 1989 with a couple of impressive traditional saloons, which then iterate...
2021 Polestar 1 (USA)
Most of the cars that you will see parked up at the car rental facilities are the ones you would expect: a wide range of vehicles of different sizes a...
2022 Maserati Ghibli GT (GB)
Car manufacturers seem to have settled on a fairly consistent pattern with the average production life of most cars being around six or seven years, a...
2020 Peugeot 2008 1.2 THP 130 GT-Line (GB)
Known variously as mid-size or compact or C-Segment cars, and by Hertz in the UK, at least, as Group C in their classifications, the medium sized hatc...
2022 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross 2.4 PHEV InStyle (CH)
When I arrived at the Hertz rental car counter at Zurich airport, to collect a car for a fleeting weekend visit, I was slightly surprised to see a Mit...
2019 Mazda CX-5 Touring (USA)
Mazda’s entry in the hotly contested family-sized crossover class is called the CX-5. It was first launched in the autumn of 2011 and immediately won ...