FORD KUGA VIGNALE 2.0 ECOBLUE AWD AUTOMATIC

Report 6 It was only by pure luck that I’m not reporting the premature departure of another Ford Kuga this month. Regular readers will remember that our Kuga plug-in hybrid was returned to Ford earlier than expected late last year, due to a fault with it, but this month’s drama almost saw the demise of […]

PEUGEOT 2008 GT LINE 1.5 BLUEHDI 100

Report 3 They say silence is golden, but I’m not sure I agree. After all, sensory deprivation is a form of torture and therefore is therefore a violation of human rights – not really the sort of thing we want to be glamourising, is it? Anyway, I much prefer to think of quietness as the […]

Vauxhall Astra SRi NAV 1.5 TURBO D

Report 2 While exterior changes to the facelifted Astra were fairly minimal, some big alterations were made under the skin. The most notable is the 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbo diesel engine, which isn’t to be mistaken with the four-cylinder 1.5-litre BlueHDi diesel unit fitted in many other models across the Stellantis brands. Instead, the Astra’s 1.5-litre […]

SEAT Ateca xperience Lux 2.0 TDI 4Drive Automatic

Ever since the Ateca arrived on the market in 2016, it has been one our favourite medium SUVs. Sharing its underpinnings with the Skoda Karoq and Volkswagen Tiguan, it makes use of the VW Group parts bin to great effect. Last summer the Ateca received a facelift, with a revised, more ornate front grille, new […]

Jaguar XF D200 AWD R-Dynamic S Automatic

The announcement earlier this year that Jaguar plans to ditch internal combustion engines by 2025 and become a pure electric brand largely overshadowed the arrival of its facelifted range of products for 2021. Jaguar boss Thierry Bolloré boldly declared that its existing model range would be jettisoned and replaced by a totally new design language […]

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