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...
2011 Mercedes-Benz S350L (D)
I simply cannot imagine that a booking for a moderately priced rental with Hertz in the UK would ever result in you finding the largest saloon of the ...
2011 Kia Venga 3 1.4 CRDi (GB)
It was only a matter of time for the concept of the MPV, translated from "Large Size" of the Renault Espace, to "Medium Size" by the 1996 Renault Scen...
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 Mercedes-Benz B180 CDi SE (IRL)
After a concept version of the car did the rounds of the Shows in 2004, the production version of the Mercedes B Class was launched in March 2005. A f...
2011 and 2010 VW Passat 1.6 TDi 105 BlueMotion S (GB)
Since its launch in 1973, Volkswagen has made well over 15 million Passats. Although this figure is well short of the sales total of the smaller Golf,...
2010 Toyota Corolla 1.8LE (USA)
The first Toyota Corolla appeared in 1966. Although it might not have been obvious at that time, this was a car that exemplified what the Japanese do ...
2011 Mitsubishi Endeavor 3.8LS (USA)
In 2010, Ford managed to sell just under 200,000 Escapes. Mitsubishi, by contrast, struggled to sell more than a few thousand of their Endeavor, a sli...
2010 Ford Escape 2.5 XLT AWD (USA)
With the honourable exception of the 2004 Mustang, Ford US had something of a new model famine for much of the late Nineties and early Noughties, and ...
2009 Mitsubishi Galant 2.4 ES (USA)
There have been 9 generations of car from Mitsubishi called Galant. The first was launched in late 1969, and was quite an advanced design for its day,...