If you’d never seen a car before, I’d show you the i30 to show demonstrate all a car should be in its simplest form. Sure, there are cooler cars, faster cars, bigger cars and more desirable cars but of course few people would choose a two-seater sports car for the school run (unless you’re a [...]
The Skoda Yeti has taken everyone by surprise. Surely a car that can behave itself in the rarefied avenues of the city and yet clamber through pothole infested back roads with good grace couldn’t possibly exist. The Yeti on the face of it appears to be able to do anything. With many legends, the [...]
Italy could rule the world if they tried a little harder. Walk around any major Italian city and be inspired by great food, great architecture, great art and great cars. Is it possible that the Fiat 500 is the very greatest of them all? After all they not bettered it in over 50 years. The [...]
The latest Citroen C4 is a bit of a superhero, although it’s more Clark Kent than Superman. CITROEN have been producing the C4 for the best part of a decade, during which time they’ve tried several incarnations as it competes with arch rival, the Ford Focus. Here then is the heroic latest; clean cut and [...]
What; another Mitsubishi review in Able? So soon after looking over the iX? Yup! Mitsubishi have really got the hang of this ’making cars’ thing – they lend themselves very well to adaptations too. Normally I’d have to start off by telling you what kind of review this is by briefly explaining which box this [...]
Last year saw the introduction into the UK of the Kia cee’d hatchback. Yes, that’s how its name is spelled – the cee’d. Makers seem to be enjoying giving new models strange names now; perhaps it makes a new model stand out, but I won’t express a judgement on that.
I was particularly interested to test the latest Nissan Micra as I owned one of the original examples myself when the model first appeared a couple of decades back.
Well, there’s no doubt about it – Jaguars are desirable and lovely cars. I had never tested one, so was delighted when their X-Type came on the Motability scheme. A week with it has confirmed my original impressions. To begin with, you find you are in a motor car of some substance and one that [...]
The concept of the Smart car emerged in the early 1990s when the Swiss company Swatch, best known for its funky watches, sought to build an affordable city car that would fit into the smallest of parking spots and go easy on fuel. Not too long after, the company paired up with Mercedes-Benz to make [...]
The BMW 1 series Coupé is a relative of BMW’s three- and five-door hatchbacks. It does seem to be the slightly chunkier cousin, though; its lines having been shortened slightly. It’s not an ugly machine but, as with other members of the family, it can’t quite be called ‘sleek’. One of the reasons is because, [...]
