2014 Chevrolet Captiva Sport 2.4 LT 2WD (USA)
Ah, the Chevrolet Captiva, I hear you say. Cue a bit of searching through the memory bank, and you will probably come up with a mental image of a Cros...
2012 Ford Focus Zetec 2.0 TDCi 140 Auto and 2013 Zetec 1.6 TDCI 115 5dr (GB)
At a global level, debate still rages as to whether it is the Toyota Corolla or the Ford Focus that is currently the world's best-selling car. Things ...
2013 Volkswagen Passat Estate 1.6 TDi 105 S (GB)
Over the past thirty years, the size of the overall market for new cars in Europe has grown very significantly, and yet as changing tastes of the cons...
2013 Nissan Sentra 1.8 SV (USA)
It is all too easy for the auto enthusiast to forget that the primary goal of any car manufacturer is not actually to make cars that appeal to us. Tha...
2012 Honda Civic LX Sedan (USA)
When a new model is launched, as a direct replacement for an existing car, the expectation is that it is "better". And in almost all cases, it is. Som...
2013 Kia Soul 2.0i+ (USA)
Probe insistently enough, and I would be pretty confident that you would get any car enthusiast to admit to at least one automotive "guilty pleasure"....
2013 Mercedes E350 Convertible with Premium 1 (USA)
There have been convertible versions of Mercedes saloons for almost as long as there have been Mercedes saloons. And that means a long time, so even a...
2013 Mercedes SLK250 with Premium (USA)
Some years ago, one of my friends sold his much loved MGF and went back onto our company car scheme, taking delivery of a Mercedes SLK. A second gener...
2013 Nissan Maxima 3.5S (USA)
The name Maxima has been used by Nissan for over thirty years, during which time it has appeared on seven distinct successive models and as a model ve...
2013 Audi A1 Sportback 1.4 TFSi 122 S-Line Auto (GB)
I have written many times before about the unpredictability of car allocation by the rental companies, and this test is just another example. For a on...