2016 Renault Captur 1.5 DCi 90 Zen (I)
It's not that many years ago that French giant Renault seemed to be in trouble. Sales outside the fiercely patriotic domestic market were falling at a...
2016 Volvo S80 T5 (USA)
Whilst the car market has, in recent times, moved strongly in favour of Crossover type vehicles, there remain segments where the traditional saloon co...
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...