Golf 8 Trace the lineage of the Volkswagen Golf back far enough, all the way past the Mk 1 from 1974 and you'll get to the original 'people's car' - the Beetle. With the planet's seemingly … [Read more...]
2020 Ford Focus ST Review: Has The Fastest Focus Gone All Grown Up?
Focus ST Despite Ford taking the monumental decision to cull pretty much all of their traditional car-shaped cars in the USA, including the Focus, the rumours of the Focus RS just won't go away. … [Read more...]
2018 Suzuki Swift Sport Review – Cheap Thrills, But At What Cost?
There's two classes of hot-hatch in this world, and the originators of the genre; VW are a great case in point. At the top end, you've got the Golf GTI & R which will set you back £30 - 35K, … [Read more...]
Hyundai i30 N – First Drive Review
Hyundai i30 NGTi, RS, Type-R and now, N. For years we've had all manner of alphabetic and numeric combinations, differentiating a powerful car from its lesser brethren. We've never had a Hyundai one … [Read more...]
Seat Leon Cupra 300 Road Test & Review
Cupra 300 VW's 'youth' brand recently unveiled the rather spectacular looking Cupra R a the Frankfurt Motor Show, and it'll come with a by-no-means unsubstantial 306bhp engine. It's limited to 799 … [Read more...]
208 GTi by Peugeot Sport Review
208 GTi by Peugeot Sport Peugeot once again gave us a small hatchback worthy of their legendary 'GTi' badge a couple of years ago, in the shape of the 208 GTi. It's no secret that hot hatches aren't … [Read more...]
KIA pro_cee’d GT – Driven and Reviewed
KIA pro_cee'd GT - catchy name, eh? It's never easy being the new kid in school, trying to maintain your own identity within a well established peer group, and that's just what Korea's first … [Read more...]
Peugeot 208 GTi – Driven and Reviewed
When Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement from management earlier this year, Manchester United were left with the unenviable task of replacing one of the most successful managers since the … [Read more...]
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Peugeot have released details and, perhaps more importantly pictures of the upcoming replacement for the 207, the imaginatively titled 208 (One wonders what they’re going to call the replacement for … [Read more...]
Anyone for Golf? Why the Volkswagen Golf is truly a car for the people
Whenever anyone asks my advice regarding what car they should buy, I have a one size fits all answer. Without the need for any further questioning, I can almost guarantee that there is a car which in … [Read more...]