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The Twingo is the modern day Renault 5

SOMETIMES you can have too much technology for your own good. Take my mobile, for instance, which for the past few days has been at the mend...

There's no grey area with these special edition Mazdas

TWO new special editions of the Mazda2 named after their paint colours have just gone on sale across the North West. The Black Edition and ...

Fire up the.... Suzuki Swift Sport (again)

THE Suzuki Swift Sport isn't perfect and it's a car of few superlatives, but it is brilliant. That’s exactly the verdict I reached t...

Fire up the... Dacia Sandero 1.2 Access

THE Nokia 3310 is one of the world’s best selling mobile phones. There was a time when everybody seemed to have one, and in a way I miss its...

Nissan spices up the Micra with new limited edition

NISSAN is now offering the Micra with a choice of two-tone paintjobs in order to give the supermini a more youthful vibe. The limited editio...

Vauxhall launches the smartphone-on-wheels

A LIMITED edition hatchback billed as ‘a smartphone on wheels’ is Vauxhall’s latest offering for fashion-conscious motorists. Just 250 of t...

VW's electronic nannying makes me want to rage against the machine

IT’S a debate that 21st century philosophers ought to be debating. Is it right to reprimanded by your car? I was thinking this last weekend,...

You don't have to be a woman to appreciate the Ford Fiesta

FORD’S Fiesta is one of my motoring favourites – and, judging by the stash of awards it’s been showered with, quite a lot of you like it to...

Fire up the... Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 SRI

LIKE garnishing an omelette with a helping of jalapeños, Vauxhall’s hoping that treating its supermini to the sporty SRI treatment will give...

So you want a secondhand supermini...

AN OBSERVATION about first cars. All the sensible people I know, having chucked away their L-plates, go for something sensible that’ll start...

Why the Dacia Sandero could be my sort of car

THIS WEEK I’ve mostly been waiting to find out which of my favourite foods is laced with horsemeat . Given some of the shocking stuff sat in...

Can new the new Clio spark a revival for Renault in the UK?

What links the Espace, the Laguna, and the Wind? That’s right – they’re all models the French firm’s quietly dropped from the UK because the...

Fiat 500: The brilliant small car I completely forgot about

WORD reaches me from north of the border that my sister’s looking to treat herself to a festive gift of the four-wheeled variety . It’s a st...

Fire up the... Peugeot 208

PEUGEOT'S back on the ball, if the new 208 is anything to go by. The French firm's built up a fine reputation for building feisty ha...

Can the Peugeot 208 GTi really be as good as the 205 GTi?

AN Eighties hot hatch icon is back! Well, sort of, if Peugeot's claims about the new 208 GTi are anything to go by. I was going to spare...

An open letter to Adam Vauxhall

DEAR Adam, I thought I'd use my motoring column this week to write you, the new Vauxhall that's being pitched squarely at the MINI a...

Fire up the... new Suzuki Swift Sport

AT THE bottom of my garden lives a particularly persistent spider. Each and every morning, without fail, it spins a web right above my back ...

Would you Adam and Eve it? The quirky name for the new baby Vauxhall

ARE you the sort of person who gives your pride and joy a name, like you would a pet? Don't worry, you're in good company if you do ...

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