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  • Honda S2000 (2008) review

    Price:  £28,050

    14 February 2008 by Nick Trott

    Honda’s S2000 is a curious car. Tucked inside that pretty, pointy body are all the ingredients to make it one of the finest sports cars on sale today; ballistic high revving engine, front-engine/rear...

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  • Farbio GTS (2008) review

    Price:  £59,925

    12 February 2008 by Dan Trent

    The Farbio GTS is a dream come true. Whether childhood doodlings or merely idle musing, who among us hasn’t harboured dreams of building the ultimate supercar. It would have 2000bhp! Eight turbos!...

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  • Bentley Brooklands (2008) review

    Price:  £230,000

    12 February 2008 by Gavin Green

    It is quite an extraordinary car, this Bentley Brooklands. Think of it how you will (two-door version of the Crewe’s Missile Azure T, hardtop version of the Azure), but it's definitely blindingly...

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  • Suzuki Splash 1.2 GLS+ (2008) review

    Price:  £9,500

    08 February 2008 by CJ Hubbard

    This is Suzuki's new Splash, and please, no jokes about making waves. Suzuki claims the name represents the refreshing change the Splash brings to the mini-MPV market, or something. Whatever – it's...

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  • Peugeot RC Z concept (2008) review

    Price:  £19,000

    07 February 2008 by James Foxall

    Peugeot has a history of occasional sublime moments of car design punctuating regular functionality. Think 402 from 1935, the 504 Coupe unveiled in 1969 and more recently the 406 Coupe. The 308 RC Z...

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  • Lexus IS-F (2008) review

    Price:  £51,000

    07 February 2008 by Ben Whitworth

    The new Lexus IS-F performance flagship arrives here this April primed to take on its BMW M3 and Mercedes C63 AMG rivals. Even its £51,000 price tag (M3 £50,725, C63 AMG £52,567) puts it deep into...

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  • Mercedes SLK350 (2008) review

    Price:  £36,000

    06 February 2008 by Nick Trott

    After 185,000 sales of the second-generation SLK (and 310,000 of the first), Mercedes-Benz has given its little sportster a raft of enhancements, improvements and other things ending in ‘ments’ . It...

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  • Audi RS6 Avant (2008) review

    Price:  £77,625

    29 January 2008 by Ben Barry

    Another performance car for the mid-life crisis, then? Harsh. The Audi RS6 carries on what the original car started back in 2002: it’s an all-wheel drive large family car – the estate goes on sale...

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  • VW Golf 1.4 TSI 7spd DSG (2008) review

    Price:  £15,982

    28 January 2008 by Jesse Crosse

    If you subscribe to the theory that more is better, then you’ll like this. VW has just announced the latest version of its groundbreaking DSG dual-clutch gearbox with seven gears instead of six. It’s...

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  • Hyundai i10 (2008) review

    Price:  £6,499

    18 January 2008 by John Sootheran

    We’re not expecting to see Hyundai’s i10 in the UK for a month or two, so CAR Online went all the way to India to test drive Korea’s latest progeny. ‘Best place for them,’ I hear many of you cry – but...

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  • Lotus Elise SC (2008) review

    Price:  £32,550

    10 January 2008 by the CAR road test team

    We’ve been subjected to some rather tenuous special edition Elises in the past, but this is a bit different. The fastest, most powerful production version of Lotus’s baby sports car yet, it’s...

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  • Mercedes C180 SE (2008) review

    Price:  £22,937

    07 January 2008 by Glen Waddington

    Four cylinders? A manual gearbox? Not traditionally attractive territory for a Mercedes, especially if you’re talking petrol rather than diesel. But Mercedes hopes you’ll go for this car rather than...

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    Renault Grand Modus 1.2 TCE 100 (2007) review

    Price:  £11,850

    14 December 2007 by Peter Burgess

    You have to hand it to Renault. After the success of the original Espace, it didn’t sit on its laurels. The Scenic that followed had an even greater impact and had the kudos of being a truly original...

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  • Jaguar XF SV8 (2007) review

    Price:  £54,900

    14 December 2007 by the CAR road test team

    Today we reveal our first driving impressions of Jaguar’s replacement for the S-type and its answer to BMW’s big selling 5-series. Roomier, better built and better equipped than before it also...

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    Infiniti G37 S Coupe (2007) (European drive) review

    Price:  £31,000

    11 December 2007 by the CAR road test team

    Who are they trying to kid? Will Europeans really consider a premium car built by Nissan? Infiniti arrives in Europe in 2008 and we’re first to drive the new G37 Coupe to find out if it cuts the...

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  • Lotus Exige S Performance Pack (2007) review

    Price:  £37,550

    04 December 2007 by the CAR road test team

    What? Another new Exige? Yes indeed, but don’t be expecting anything too groundbreaking: this is evolution over revolution. Essentially we’re talking 2008 model year changes here and the addition of...

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  • Lamborghini Reventon (2007) review

    04 December 2007 by the CAR road test team

    You’re driving Darth Vader’s car! Yes, Lamborghini’s outrageous Reventon is unlike anything else we’ve seen. Unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show last month, the Reventon is about the meanest, baddest...

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  • Kia Picanto 1.1 Ice (2007) review

    Price:  £6,995

    04 December 2007 by the CAR road test team

    Hmm. It looks a bit better than the old car It does, doesn’t it? Out goes the old cat’s arse grille, to be replaced with something altogether neater. There are new bumpers front and rear, a new...

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  • Nissan GT-R (2008) review

    Price:  £65,000

    04 December 2007 by Gavin Green

    Nissan GT-R. Finally, the full-blown road test… Yes, after all the hype, the teaser images, the passenger rides and interviews, we’ve finally been let loose in the Nissan GT-R, one of the most...

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  • Ford Mustang Bullitt (2007) review

    Price:  £31,075

    12 November 2007 by Chris Chilton

    Mr Bullitt, we’ve been expecting you It was inevitable. You can’t build a retro version of America’s favourite sporty car and then ignore the fortieth anniversary of its starring appearance in...

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