HONDA doesn’t do mass market, at least not in the UK, where it wasn’t even among the top twenty biggest-selling car brands last year. But the Japanese brand does have a great reputation. And in recent years has veered away from its traditionally conservative image by making cars that sit outside the mainstream. The mid-sized […]

ELECTRIC cars aren’t just changing what we drive, they’re also causing considerable alarm to traditional car makers. For decades Toyota, GM, Ford, Volkswagen / Audi etc have dominated the sales charts. But battery electric cars are so fundamentally different to diesel / petrol-powered ones that new entrants that are prepared to take risks and innovate […]

THE Nissan Qashqai is a very important motor, having been widely credited with creating and popularising the ‘crossover’ SUV-type cars that are all around us today. Nissan has sold more than four million worldwide and 750,000 in the UK alone and it remains among the top three best sellers. However, competition in this segment is […]

IF you’re a certain age, Subaru conjures up images of rally success. With the previously little-known Japanese car maker hoovering up multiple world championships in the nineties and early noughties. Blue and yellow Imprezzas propelled rally legend Colin McRae to his world title in 1995. Subaru Imprezzas were also the preferred weapon of local rally […]

HARDLY a week goes by without a new electric car being launched. From small city cars to MPVs, SUVs and sports tourers, EVs are now available in every shape and size, and at lower prices than ever before. But despite all this, they still only account for around a quarter of new cars sold and […]

THE tectonic plates around the global car industry are shifting… driven in large part by the aggressive rise of Chinese electric car makers. Somewhat less newsworthy but equally significant are the ambitions shown by their near neighbours in South Korea – Kia and Hyundai. Both have slowly shed their cheap and cheerful persona over the […]