Mazda MX-5 2.0 (2009) review Price: £18,000 31 October 2008 by Ben Whitworth This is Mazda’s new 2009 MX-5 – and in a world exclusive, CAR has driven the facelifted MX-5 seven months ahead of its UK debut to bring you the first road test of what is still the world’s most... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Vauxhall Insignia 2.8 V6 4×4 (2008) review Price: £28,085 30 October 2008 by Anthony ffrench-Constant Twenty minutes into a vigorous hoon in this 2.8-litre V6 powered, four-wheel drive flagship of the new Vauxhall Insignia range, all I could think of was pub grub. No, the launch proceedings food was... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic (2008) review Price: £165,500 29 October 2008 by Ben Oliver Not even James Bond has driven the Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic yet. Quantum of Solace is just about to open but Daniel Craig must content himself with the standard manual DBS. We’ve already driven... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 2 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Ford Ka Zetec (2008) review Price: £9,495 29 October 2008 by Chris Chilton We’re so accustomed to six-year model cycles that the 12 years it’s taken Ford to come up with the second generation Ka is scarcely believable. But the new Ka is here – and now CAR Online has finally... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Renaultsport Megane R26R (2008) CAR review and video Price: £22,990 27 October 2008 by Chris Chilton Dreaming of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS but living with a hot hatch budget? Renault’s stripped-to-the-bones Megane R26R is the answer. Based on the acclaimed R26, the R version is the most extreme factory... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Infiniti EX37 (2008) review Price: £35,000 27 October 2008 by Adam Towler It’s taken four years of planning to realise this Infiniti EX37 launch. Nissan’s Infiniti 'premium brand' is about to make a bridgehead into Europe, and it’s this EX37 SUV-lite experience that it... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Hyundai Genesis Coupe (2008) CAR review and video Price: £25,000 24 October 2008 by Ben Barry CAR Online has just driven Hyundai’s new rear-wheel drive Genesis Coupe. And it’s good. Very, very good. Hyundai hasn’t yet committed to bringing the car to the UK, but our first drive confirms that... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi S4 saloon (2008) review Price: £36,000 21 October 2008 by Georg Kacher The new Audi S4 is either Ingolstadt’s idea of a bad joke or a stroke of genius. If you follow the former line of thought, then you’re from the camp that thinks the economy has jumped off a cliff,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Suzuki Alto (2008) review Price: £7,000 20 October 2008 by Ben Oliver Less than a month after the new Suzuki Alto and Nissan Pixo twins were unveiled at the 2008 Paris motor show, CAR Online has been to Delhi to drive the Suzuki version. Why Delhi? This is where they’ll... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Ferrari California (2008): real-time CAR review blog Price: £143,000 15 October 2008 by Chris Chilton Bit of a CAR Online experiment here. We're driving the new Ferrari California today and attempting what, as far as we're aware, is the first real-time review of the Cali on the internet. Road test... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.4 (2008) review Price: £14,499 29 September 2008 by James Foxall Twenty years ago you probably didn’t imagine the Suzuki Vitara to be a ground breaker. But it was. The little 4x4 was the first small Sports Utility Vehicle and as such created a sector in the market... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Porsche 911 Targa 4S (2008) review Price: £80,270 25 September 2008 by Adam Towler Porsche’s 'Targa' moniker has been applied to open-air 911s since the late 1960s, and now with the latest version complementing the recently launched coupe and convertible models, it completes... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
BMW X6 XDrive 35i (2008) review Price: £43,160 24 September 2008 by Greg Fountain Announcing the launch of the world’s first sports activity coupe is rather like announcing the world’s first six-decker sponge cake – probably quite tasty, but hardly a Jaffa cake moment, and way too... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Kia Ceed 1.4 ISG (2008) review Price: £11,500 24 September 2008 by Jesse Crosse Kia will go electric, in a small way at least, when it introduces the Ceed with a stop-start system early in 2009. The Ceed ISG (Idle Stop and Go) will be the first of a series of new, green,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Lotus 2-Eleven s/c (2008) review Price: £41,180 24 September 2008 by Nick Trott The 2-Eleven is the most track-focused road car Lotus has ever built. And we’ve emphasised the ‘road car’ bit because despite the wings and splitters and launch control and racing stripes the Lotus... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Gumpert Apollo S (2008) review Price: £275,000 24 September 2008 by Mark Walton Everything you need to know about the Gumpert Apollo is there from the outset, worn on the sleeve and clearly visible the first time you look at it. Or should that be ‘stare’ at it. Compact, brutish,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Mercedes C63 AMG Performance Package (2008) review Price: £54,645 24 September 2008 by Ben Barry The Mercedes C63 AMG Performance Package costs £3210 and promises to turn the four-door saloon from Affalterbach into an M3 beater. For your money you get uprated brakes and suspension, a limited slip... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Ariel Atom3 300 (2008) review Price: £35,888 24 September 2008 by Mark Walton When it comes to journalists writing road tests, there are so many different uses for the word ‘scary’ I thought I’d better clarify. So, there’s the track car that accelerates so fast it makes you... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi RS6 saloon (2008) review Price: £76,160 22 September 2008 by Glen Waddington It’s a car of broad abilities, the Audi A6. An eco-friendly 2.0TDIe tax-buster at one end, some slick and savvy V6s in the middle – then this utterly bonkers RS6 road-burner at the other end of the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi A6 3.0T facelift (2008) review Price: £37,440 19 September 2008 by Glen Waddington With an almost invisible change here and there, the Audi A6 joins the Golf and 3-series as the latest barely perceptible facelifts of best-selling German cars. Okay, I know, the Golf shares only roof... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...