Luxury Cars
Best for: Desirability This biggest Land Rover Defender ought to have been a candidate for the top of this chart, because while it’s expensive, its cleverly configurable interior presents the option of as many as eight seats. Buy a long-wheelbase, five-door Defender 110 and JLR will offer you a choice of five, six or seven passenger seats, while the elongated […]
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Eyebrows were raised when an Aston Martin engineer, speaking at the Austrian launch of the new Roadster, suggested the spring and damper rates had been carried over wholesale from the coupé unaltered. For something without a proper carbonfibre tub, this would be irregular. When you lop the top off a coupé, the body often then
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The cabin update marks major change. Were it not for the cliff-face geometry of the wide, wood-effect (or, in higher trims, metal-effect) dashboard and the expanse between the front seats (nicely sculpted and with useful armrests), you could almost be forgiven for thinking you had climbed aboard one of Mercedes’ saloons. Gone are dramatically hooded instrument
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Italian company Automobili Mignatta (AM) has unveiled the Rina, a V8-powered tribute to the nation’s sports cars from the 1960s. It is a speedster based around a carbonfibre monocoque, with curved haunches and a long bonnet headlining a design that echoes contemporary race cars from the likes of Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati. Its cockpit is devoid
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I just want the easiest conduit, the least bad version, something that works every time and is deliberately designed to be unannoying. For me, this is the optimum that user-facing car software can be. I’m not convinced it’s enough reason alone to buy a car, although I am 100% sure that it’s enough reason to not buy one.
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UK-made vehicles imported into the US will be hit with a reduced tariff of 10%, president Donald Trump has announced. It follows more than a month of negotiations between UK ministers and US officials after president Trump revealed sweeping levies on foreign-made products. This included a 25% tariff on new cars imported into the US. All levies were due to
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The E450d Estate however, on its air springs, exhibits exactly the flavour of ride and handling balance you would want in a car like this. The ability of this chassis to waft along a motorway or a curving A-road, or to isolate you from the topological vagaries of a threadbare B-road, is excellent and close
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Best for: All-round ability With its lighter chassis, more commodious dimensions and much-improved dynamics, you would expect the latest Qashqai to do well. And for the most part, it does. There’s little here for keen drivers and both the 1.3-litre mild-hybrid petrol and novel e-Power hybrid powertrain are a little breathless, but what did you expect? Performance and
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The traction control can be completely disabled if you want it to be, but the stability systems always remain on and they deal with the beginnings of lift-off oversteer in a slightly heavy-handed manner, with brusque brake applications. It gets the job done, but it’s not as refined as some. The computers are more adept
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That seems logical to me, but then it does cost £8000 more, and both Tiguans will just get stuck in the same rush-hour queues anyway. There’s also, unusually and commendably, still a diesel offered in the Tiguan range – a 2.0-litre four – as well as two company car tax-friendly plug-in hybrids. Like everyone else at
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