2016 Skoda Yeti Outdoor 2.0 TDi 110 S (GB)
It is no secret that I am a big fan of the Skoda Yeti. Indeed, having finally managed to get behind the wheel of one in October 2012, I concluded my ...
2016 Volvo V40 D4 R-Design Pro (GB)
Much is being made in current UK advertising for the Volvo V40 of the fact that it is a Swedish car. There is a certain irony in this, of course,...
2015 Volkswagen Passat 1.8 TSi S (USA)
If you believe the media frenzy that, precisely one year after the story of "Dieselgate" broke, portrays Volkswagen as the most evil of corporates, wh...
2017 Porsche 911 Carrera (USA)
One of the topics which has generated almost more column inches and web pages from the motoring journalist community in recent...
2016 Seat Ibiza ST 1.2 TSi 90 Connect (GB)
The first cars were conceived as a way of getting people from A to B more quickly, under their own control, than had been possible with earlier forms ...
2016 Volkswagen CC 2.0 TSi Trend (USA)
If you look at what the car manufacturers were selling us twenty or thirty years ago, most of them, even the big brands, had only a small number of di...
2015 Volkswagen Beetle 1.8 TSi (USA)
In recent years, it has become very apparent that Retro sells. Having seen this blatant appeal to our sense of nostalgia deliver sales and profit in o...
2015 Toyota Avensis Estate 2.0 D-4D Active (GB)
As has been noted in a number of previous reports, most of the test cars that I get to drive come from rental car companies, from around the world. Al...
2015 Volvo V40 D3 2.0 Kinetic (E)
During the 1970s, there was a pretty universal shift that saw the traditional family saloon move from "three box" styling, with a separate boot, to th...
2015 Toyota Avensis Saloon 2.0 D-4D Icon Business Edition (GB)
You don't have to go that far back in automotive industry to get to a time when what is now known as the D-Segment, or sometimes upper-medium sized fa...