2024 Diesel Top 50 announced

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2024 Diesel Top 50 in the October 2024 edition of Diesel&EcoCar magazine, which is now on sale. Earlier in the year we revealed the Electrified Top 50, and we have great pleasure in revealing the Diesel Top 50 today.

Moving on up

The dictum that less is more doesn’t seem to apply to cars. The number of features most of them contain is frankly ridiculous. Many of them are there to give showroom lackies things that glitter and hypnotise punters into buying. Ambient lighting is a good example. A while back I borrowed a Mercedes-Benz A-Class that […]

Bright Spark

I think it’s fair to say that the new Kia e-Niro has caused a bit of a stir. Its 64kWh battery is the biggest currently fitted to an electric car from any of the mainstream brands and if you want to buy one, get ready to join a long queue. Supply difficulties notwithstanding, I managed to […]

Rolling back the years…

Hi Doc!    Many years have passed since I last wrote to you. At that time, I had just purchased a pre-registered CitroÎn BX TZD Turbo ñ a great car, I just loved it, which was then followed by a Renault Megane Scenic, and then a CitroÎn Picasso 2.0 HDi. But I digress, as you […]

Filter Tips

Hello Doc,   I think that you have perhaps covered this before in these pages, although maybe not for a while, as I could find no reference to it in recent issues. What would you consider borderline conditions, in terms of freedom from particulate filter problems (DPF), in terms of the length of typical journeys […]