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Forget the sweeping curves, challenging proportions and gromless, face; what matters about the Mercedes Benz F700 is the tech. it previews tomorrows S class. First up, pre scan suspension, which uses pulsed laser to read the road upto 7m in front of the car, detecting the bumps and feeding the information to the F700’s hydraulic [...]

We know that cost of the living has risen a tad since you could buy a now Golf GTI, but the thought of spending on a hot hatch makes us come overall thrifty and want to rip up the lawn and plant a load of carrots. The trouble is that all the big action seems [...]

The same but…well, not that different actually. The old Vauxhall VXR8 was fats and lairy. Just a year after its launch, the Aussie built Vauxhall VXR8 has already been upgrade. That might seems like bad news if you have bought an early one but, to be honest, the driving experience remains much the same; the [...]

Few cars have captured the imagination of the performance world as the Cobra did in the mid sixties and the legend has lived on through the many replicas to emerge again in the Viper, its spiritual successor. It was the time honoured recipe of getting the biggest possible engine into the lightest frame that could [...]

It’s the first trip the Audi was made for. Poland? Three tall blocks and a stack of ski and snowboard gear, so an estate with decent rear legroom was required. Destination? valD’Isere, so we needed a diesel automatic to chomp through miles with minimum effort, maximum efficiency. Four wheel drive and a bit more ride [...]

They flew us to Iceland to drive the new golf, perhaps hoping the tectonic wonders on display might take our minds off the fact that this car looks the same as the old one. If that was their game, they failed, and might want to think about the usefulness of the island’s lava-based, low speed [...]

The latest ford fiesta is the live aid of new cars launches in Beijing, Bristol, North America and Asia. Ford is suffering back home in the world richest economy, where it lost $1.3 billion in the last financial quarter. American punters are running into the arms of foreign brands, and ditching fords profitable truck lines [...]

Oh I hate this, here are five cars, the ownership of any of which would be enough to get your pencil drumming impatiently on the table during meetings until you could go back outside and drive again. Each is powerful, sexy, luxurious and immensely desirable, but I have to construct an argument for sending four [...]

Fortunately for jaguar, we are putting more emphasis on how these cars perform on the road than on the tracks. On the paper, the new XKR-S looked like it might do well around Anglesey. To the standard XKR’s stiff, relatively light weight aluminum construction and 416bhp supercharged V8 and the S adds firmer, 10mm lower [...]

We drove the Aston Martin Vantage on the track after the SL and XK, and it was the first in this group to feel like it belonged there. Unlike the first two, you can imagine a Vantage owner booking himself a trackday, and you can feel the underlying promise for the racing versions Aston Martin [...]