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‘A new world-beater’

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THISWEEK NEWS Bentley Bentayga Full specs and official pics

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Porsche 911 Carrera Facelift heralds turbos

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Citroën Cactus M Open-top concept unveiled

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Rolls-Royce Dawn Luxurious soft-top revealed 17 Honda Project 2&4 Outrageous track concept 18 Toyota Prius Sleeker looks for next-gen hybrid 21

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Jaguar F-Pace Sporty SUV targets Macan

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Fiat 124 Spider Abarth model will differ a lot

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TESTED Volkswagen Passat Alltrack High-riding estate 28 BMW 320d M Sport Revised saloon still has it 30

COVER STORY

Kia Cee’d 1.6 CRDi Facelifted and improved

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Skoda Octavia vRS 230 Faster and good value 35

We retrace Rolls-Royce’s steps around the classic 1907 Scottish Reliability Trials route

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OUR CARS

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British Motor Heritage | Insight

KEEPING THE PAST ALIVE

One firm is keeping British classics alive by using original tooling and traditional skills. Steve Cropley takes a closer look PHOTOGRAPHY LUC LACEY

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f it wasn’t for BMH, the Oxfordshire-based maker of replacement bodies for British cars of a certain age, it’s probable that thousands of otherwise healthy classics would by now have returned to the earth as red oxide. Either that, or they’d have been consigned to the crusher as a result of structural incapacity, to begin a new life as soup cans or fencing wire.

When British Motor Heritage was born as part of British Leyland back in 1975, rustproofing in cars was regarded as an unnecessary luxury.

Only expensive cars were built to last.

British car owners expected their cars’ sills to bubble extravagantly after five years, and after 15 many an owner would be treated to views of the road through the footwells.

Although it was the nation’s largest car maker, BL at the time was beset by already terminal problems with engineering development and manufacturing quality. It was building some of the least durable cars on the road – yet these days you see a surprising number of old Minis, MG Bs, Spridgets and Triumphs still driving happily about. This is partly

because the cars are enjoyable to own and drive, so owners look after them, but mainly because crucial replacement body bits, made off original tools, are affordable and easily available through BMH. At first, BMH’s role was to meet a growing demand for early pattern parts; the original Mini, MG B and the rest were still in production. It functioned happily enough into the 1990s, supplying more than 2000 MG B bodies for the RV8 project in the mid-1990s. “It was a monument to BL’s inefficiency that the tooling was still available,” says current MD and owner John Yea. “Most companies would have scrapped it long ago.”

The business passed into the hands of BMW in 1994 with its £800 million acquisition of Rover Group, but when the Germans decided in 2000 that their bold British exploit was never going to work, BMH was acquired by a team steered by Yea, a former Rover finance man, initially with several partners.

“BMW’s overriding priority was to avoid bad PR,” Yea recalls. “They were desperate to be seen as good ◊

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OURCARS A week in the life of Autocar’s fleet

Ferrari FF

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BMW

ACTIVE TOURER

Stan Papior John Bradshaw

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FF may be large, but it’s easier to drive than you might expect

You soon get used to the switchgear layout

FF is four-wheel drive, but in practice it’s rear drive in all but rare circumstances

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FABULOUS V12 Rev it or let it trundle; whatever you do, the sound and response are top class.

SPACIOUS CABIN Load four adults and you’ll find their luggage goes in the boot.

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drive system and a big boot under a large hatch. This may well be the most practical Ferrari yet built.

Truth be told, it took us several weeks to pick up on the FF’s practical side. When someone lobs a 651bhp 6.2-litre V12-engined supercar in your direction, one capable of dispatching the 0-62mph sprint in 3.7sec and hitting 208mph flat out, the first thing you think about is not boot space.

STEERING, CHASSIS It’s a Ferrari, and right up to the marque’s best modern standards. Practical, too.

MIGHTY PERFORMANCE Its breadth of capability amazes. It’s easy to enjoy when driving with traffic.

What’s more, the generous dimensions, especially width, made us distinctly wary of pointing our new Ferrari at London’s tight parking spaces and congested streets.

But cars like this easily find willing occupants, so four-up driving soon became common, and the long distances they effortlessly consume mean travellers need luggage. And when the rear two rear seats weren’t

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engage a gear and, with a faint but cruel smile playing on his lips, driven it out of our gates to meet its new owner.

This has been a different Ferrari experience for us, mainly because the car itself is so different from most Ferraris. It is 10cm taller and 30cm longer than the similar-engined F12 two-seater because, despite its coupélike shape, there is viable seating for four adults, plus a novel four-wheel

he worst thing about the arrival of a Ferrari at our place is that, eventually, it’ll go. So it is with the magnificent Ferrari FF we’ve been running for the past few months and 5500 miles. As this is written, a driver downstairs in our car park has just pressed the FF’s wheel-mounted button to bring the mighty 6262cc V12 to life, given it a couple of parting blips, squeezed the right-hand paddle to

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FINAL REPORT Over 5000 miles, did our second-hand FF manage to deliver the full Ferrari experience? And was its four-wheel drive, four-seat format a bonus or hindrance?

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TASTELESS TRIM Cabin decor, especially with expensive carbonfibre addons, is too far over the top.

occupied, they were folded down, whereupon we found the FF could carry some long and large loads. One of the truths about a capacious car is that it will often be utilised. The Ferrari’s versatility was one reason why the FF was able to be driven and enjoyed by upwards of 10 Autocar people while with us, but while the car worked for us, we never quite killed off the debate over how relevant it was to those who truly move in the £250k Ferrari market. Do they want a car that can do everything?

Marketing types always say such people have six to 16 cars. Wouldn’t most of them prefer the partnership of an F12 with a Range Rover or Bentley Bentayga?

We did run to earth a couple of FF owners, one at a cars-in-field event and one in London’s West End. Neither was keen to be identified, but for both, the message was the same: there are lots of people who want to go in a Ferrari, so the more seats the better. Understandably,

Boot is a neat 450 litres with rear seats up

There are lots of people who want to go in a Ferrari, so the more seats the better because the British climate is fundamentally temperate, neither had put his FF’s novel front drive system to much use (it only becomes effective in the lower gears, when the rear wheels get close to slippage), but one owner was planning to use his car for a skiing trip, which is one of the key uses cited for the car when it was being dreamed up in Maranello, back around 2010.

None of us found the FF displayed any important drawback as a driver’s car as a result of its extra size, weight or wheelbase. You’d doubtless find an F12 a bit more agile in a direct faceoff, but when the FF is yours for a day or a weekend, nothing could seem less relevant. Then it’s all about the fine, firm seats, the novel switchgear

(front-engined Ferraris can be a bit intimidating until you learn the controls) and, above all, enjoying the potential of the engine. This V12 is as strong as you could want: torquey from 2000rpm, massively powerful to 7000rpm and beyond, long-legged in every one of its seven paddle-controlled gears except first and possessed (provided you turn the wheel-mounted manettino to Sport) of a super-smooth exhaust howl that not only advertises its potential but also gives you a pretty good clue to how many cylinders it has.

Your perception of the 4x4 system working will be rare, but if you put your FF around a track, something it can handle with alacrity, you’ll discover if you press hard enough that at the point

TEST STARTED 7.4.15 Mileage at start 13,722 Mileage at end 19,712 PRICES List price new £227,168 List price now £227,168 Price as tested (new) £314,662 Price as delivered £190,000 Dealer value now £180,000 Private value now £170,000 Trade value now £160,000 OPTIONS HIGHLIGHTS Rosso 2007 F1 paint £19,130, panoramic glass roof £10,460, carbonfibre dashboard inserts £8615, suspension lift system £3564, 20in dark-painted alloys £3552, premium hi-fi £3552, ventilated electric seats £2112, front parking camera £1920 FUEL CONSUMPTION AND RANGE Claimed economy 17.3mpg (combined) Fuel tank 91 litres Test average 17.2mpg Test best 22.2mpg Test worst 14.9mpg Real-world range 325 miles TECH HIGHLIGHTS 0-62mph 3.7sec Top speed 208mph Engine V12, 6262cc, petrol Max power 651bhp at 8000rpm Max torque 504lb ft at 6000rpm Transmission 7-spd automated manual Boot 450–800 litres Wheels 20in, alloy Tyres 245/35 R20 (f), 295/35 R20 (r) Weight 1880kg SERVICE AND RUNNING COSTS Contract hire rate £4400 per month CO2 360g/km Service costs None Other costs None Fuel costs £2058 Running costs inc fuel £2058 Cost per mile 34 pence Depreciation £10,000 (est, used car) Cost per mile inc depreciation £2.01 Faults Nose lifter malfunction PREVIOUS REPORTS 22 Apr, 6 May, 27 May, 1 Jul, 5 Aug, 12 Aug

where a rear-drive-only F12 might get into a powerslide (provided the chassis settings are configured to allow it), the FF will stay close to neutral, feeling as if it is being pulled as well as pushed. Few cars of this potential feel so fail-safe.

Ferrari’s unique ability, maintained for many decades, has been to make the experience of driving or owning one of its cars quite different from the experience in a rival, however good.

Apart from dividing 5000 miles of rare driving pleasure among more than 10 people, our FF’s achievement has been to show that these Maranello-only qualities can extend to a car that gets as close to an SUV in capability, if not looks, as Ferrari is ever likely to go. steve.cropley@haymarket.com 9 SEPTEMBER 2015 AUTOCAR.CO.UK 63

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Bentayga hasn’t had the smoothest path to the showroom

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WhyisaBentley SUVcontroversial?

ON THE COVER we’ve called it the most controversial Bentley ever – but the temptation was to call it the most controversial car ever. If they can sell as many Bentaygas as they have started pub debates, Bentley will be in great shape.

And yet… what is everyone really so steamed up about? The original concept looked rushed, for sure, and the name is a mouthful. But the former is now forgotten and the latter is starting to trip off the tongue. Is the idea of a Bentley SUV really that hard to stomach?

On the eve of Jaguar launching its first SUV and with Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce poised to follow, I’d argue that Bentley and the rest are only doing what they should be doing: reacting to market trends and creating vehicles accordingly, just as their founding fathers did.

In fact, the only foolhardy move would surely be not to make an in-demand vehicle purely because there was no historical precedent.

When you are plotting a vibrant future, it rarely pays to approach the task with a closed mind.

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OFFICIAL PICTURES

Bentley rides high with

■ All-new luxury SUV on sale early next year for £130k-plus ■ 187mph top speed, 0-60mph

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entley has finally laid down the specification for its new, market-topping Bentayga SUV, due to be unveiled at the Frankfurt motor show next week.

Launching a host of new Bentayga details today, the company describes its £130,000-plus model as “the fastest, most powerful, most luxurious and most exclusive SUV in the world”. It also has “the world’s finest automotive cabin” that offers “unparalleled luxury” in its sector, according to Bentley.

It’s all part of Crewe’s strategy to maximise the short lead it is about to open up over other budding premium SUV makers, notably Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini, when the Bentayga goes on sale next year. But up to half a dozen

expensive car brands are rushing to create new SUVs for the niche they believe is opening above the most expensive Range Rover.

Bentayga prices will start around £30,000 above the top Range Rover and are likely to be driven much higher by the bespoke equipment.

Despite its size and high price, the Bentayga is not being positioned as Bentley’s flagship: that role will continue to be played by the £225,000 Mulsanne limo. Bentley wants to emphasise the practicality, strength and durability of its new SUV, as well as the luxury.

“Owners may never drive these vehicles off road,” said engineering director Rolf Frech, “but they must know it will perform in tough conditions.”

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Frech devised a million-mile test regime, the toughest yet for a Bentley, taking prototypes to five continents in the most difficult conditions “to ensure unwavering performance”.

BODY AND CHASSIS The car’s original shape was heavily revised after a different concept, shown at the 2012 Geneva show, failed to win the approval of show-goers and management at the Volkswagen Group, of which Bentley is a part.

Today’s Bentayga is lower and more ‘Bentley-like’ but is still 5.14 metres long, with a wheelbase of nearly three metres. It is slightly longer than a long-wheelbase Range Rover, but the roof is about 60mm lower — a move, designers say, that helps maintain the Bentley

sporting character. The styling comparison they prefer is with the sleek Porsche Cayenne rather than the tall Range Rover.

The Bentayga uses an iteration of the VW Group’s new MLB-Evo platform for large vehicles that has already been used for Audi’s new Q7 and is coming soon in an allnew Cayenne. Construction is described as aluminiumintensive (the Bentayga’s bodyside is the industry’s largest single aluminium pressing), but materials are

a mix of aluminium, steel and composites, according to function.

SUSPENSION The Bentayga has an all-new computer-controlled air spring system whose ride height, damping, roll control, stability, hill descent and traction are all controlled by the driver from a console-mounted rotary control. There are four selectable on-road modes and four for off-road driving.

One innovative feature is

Bentayga has ‘the world’s inest automotive cabin’, company bosses say

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Bentayga

in 4.0sec ■ 600bhp twin-turbo W12 a quick-acting, 48V anti-roll system that can rapidly vary the car’s body roll control, front and rear, according to conditions. It provides both stability in hard cornering and a relaxed ride on the motorway.

The Bentayga is the first Bentley to take towing seriously. A trailer assist feature allows a driver to select a desired articulation angle between car and trailer and maintain it when reversing. A stability system applies the brakes selectively if the trailer starts to sway dangerously on the move, also cutting engine torque if necessary.

The steering is a new electrically assisted system with a variable rack and pinion, higher geared at the extremities to allow quick low-speed manoeuvring.

There’s also an electronic differential lock that uses the brakes to mimic a locked diff to tame wheelspin.

ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION At launch, the Bentayga’s only engine offering will be a completely redesigned twin-turbocharged petrol W12 engine, claimed both to improve efficiency by 11.9% and reduce weight by 30kg.

Crewe is proud of its status as the VW Group’s centre of excellence for 12-cylinder engines and has worked hard to make the new engine (which will be used by selected Audis and VWs) more compact than its predecessor. The new W12 is 24% shorter than a V12 would be, Bentley claims, a great aid to packaging.

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Q &A P E T E R G U E ST, B E N TAYG A P R OJ ECT D I R ECTO R Were you in charge of this project from the start?

“Yes. I picked it up towards the end of 2011, while our Strategy Group was still deciding how we’d expand the company. Building an SUV was the obvious thing to do. Our CEO, Wolfgang Dürheimer, knew that better than anyone. He made it clear from day one.”

Is it daunting, running something like this?

“It is. At first, I was a bit scared, to be honest, even though I’ve been head of body and trim at Bentley for nine years and led plenty of technical projects at TWR before that. But it was the size of this project one tended to reflect on, and the clean sheet of paper aspect.”

Could you explain the brief for the Bentayga?

“That’s easy. I was looking just the other day at the notes we made four years ago: to build an SUV that would sit at the pinnacle of luxury while being capable and practical as well. We haven’t changed at all. This is the car we’re about to launch.”

Have there been any major surprises during the car’s development?

“Two, I think. One is how much people have known about the project. We’re only a small company, but wherever you go, people know it’s live and have an opinion on it. That’s great.

The second thing is how much fun it’s been. As I said, the size of the job was daunting at first, but the skills of our 20-strong core team, and support from Mr Dürheimer, and even the support of the UK government [which wanted to keep the work at Crewe] have made it a really enjoyable time.

I feel very lucky.”

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Δ mounted north-south in the nose, packs 600bhp at 6000rpm and 663lb ft of torque between 1250rpm and 4500rpm. It drives through an eight-speed, paddle-shift ZF automatic to a four-wheel drive system featuring a Torsen centre differential.

The standard car rolls on 20in wheels, but 21s and 22s are also available. Soon, Bentley says, Bentaygas will come with both diesel and plug-in hybrid powertrains.

This will be Crewe’s first hybrid, although the system is likely to spread through the company’s range as demand grows in export markets such as China.

A spoiler-adorned, higherperformance W12, likely to be christened Speed, has also been spotted undergoing tests at the Nurburgring.

The new W12 has stop-start and an efficiency-boosting cylinder deactivation system that shuts down the valves, fuel injection and ignition systems when the engine is turning below 3000rpm or developing up to a third of its torque, provided the car is in at least third gear.

Another efficiency measure on the move is a so-called ‘sail’ mode. If the driver releases the accelerator in fifth to eighth gear, the torque converter disconnects and freewheels, engaging again only when the driver gets back on the accelerator or the car begins to accelerate downhill.

PERFORMANCE Bentley claims a top speed of 187mph for the Bentayga and a 0-60mph time of 4.0sec — deeply impressive figures for a model with a 2422kg kerb weight and a generous frontal area. Furthermore, Frech insists the car must be able to achieve its top speed in a 40deg C temperature, with no degradation in refinement or cooling performance.

The CO2 output of 292g/km is better than that of previous W12 models but not a vast improvement, and combined fuel consumption of 22.1mpg is the reason why the Bentayga needs an 87-litre fuel tank.

INTERIOR The cabin bristles with highquality materials (“If it looks

like metal, it is metal”) and a vast selection of standard and optional new-era equipment.

The interior designers’ mission was to set quality standards that exceed any previous SUV and rival other Bentleys.

The fascia design echoes the wings of the Bentley badge, flowing from door to door.

A ‘floating’ driver info panel with bright mineral glass as its screen, speaker grilles behind a fine metal mesh, intricate knurling on all important switchgear and new diamondquilted seats with up to 22-way adjustment are some details.

You can order either a two or three-person rear seat layout, and the rear seat system folds down to carry extra luggage. A seven-seat layout is coming.

LAUNCH DETAILS Bentley’s UK dealers are already taking orders for the Bentayga, which is expected to swell Bentley volume by more than 3000 cars a year and send total annual volume well beyond 10,000 units. First customers will get their cars early next year.

STEVE CROPLEY

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Why it will be a runaway hit

WE SHOULD ALL enjoy the debut of this new Bentley Bentayga, because it’s going to be special.

Rarely does a car manufacturer prepare to launch a completely new type of car — something it has never made before — knowing that it’ll be a roaring success. But that’s how it will be for Bentley, for three reasons.

First, for SUVs of all sizes, shapes and prices, the market is booming.

You can hardly make a mistake with them.

Second, Bentley’s manufacturing standards are so high that there’s very little chance it will launch something half-baked, which might be the problem with others.

Third, Bentley’s modern faithful are sitting out there in the market, waiting for something new, as Porsche owners were for the Cayenne. SUVs are prestige cars, as Range Rover proves. Bentley has always made prestige cars. The two things will go together like a dream.

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Facelifted 911 now features active ducts to control airflow

Revamped 911 hits back Turbo engines and optional four-wheel steer for revised Porsche 911 Carrera models, due in December

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orsche is taking the fight back to rivals such as the Mercedes-AMG GT with its facelifted 911. It will go on sale in December but has its public debut at the Frankfurt motor show later this month.

The most notable updates to the long-running sports car are a new turbocharged flat six engine and changes to the specification. The Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) system is now standard, while inside there’s a new generation of Porsche’s multimedia setup. Its 7.0in touchscreen interface supports both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, and satellite navigation is standard.

The 911’s exterior has also been upgraded, with new front

and rear lights and active air ducts that open and close to channel airflow. Also new at the rear is a redesigned air vent that channels cooling air to the engine, intercoolers and turbochargers.

Powering the updated 911 is a new twin-turbo 3.0-litre flat six petrol engine, which in the Carrera develops 365bhp at 6500rpm and 332lb ft from 1700-5000rpm. In the Carrera S, those outputs rise to 414bhp and 369lb ft.

Transmission options remain as before, with a seven-speed manual gearbox offered alongside a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch automatic.

The added power means the Carrera now sprints to 62mph from rest in 4.2sec when equipped with the optional

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Sport Chrono package. In the Carrera S, that time drops to 3.9sec, making both models 0.2sec faster than their outgoing equivalents.

The top speed of both the Carrera and Carrera S have also increased, to 183mph and 191mph respectively.

Those figures make the updated 911 well matched against the Mercedes-AMG GT, which reaches 62mph in 4.0sec and has a top speed of 189mph in standard guise (3.8sec/193mph in GT S form).

As well as providing tunable settings for the dampers, throttle mapping and steering, the Sport Chrono package now includes a steering wheel-mounted driving mode switch that allows the driver to choose between

New steering wheel features a driving mode selector

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at AMG Normal, Sport, Sport Plus and Individual driving modes.

On models with the Sport Chrono pack and PDK, an additional Sport Response button is fitted. Once pushed, the system provides maximum acceleration for 20 seconds by selecting the optimum gear.

Porsche says the facelifted 911 has already lapped the Nürburgring in 7min 34sec — more than six seconds faster than the outgoing car.

The adoption of turbos has resulted in significant fuel economy gains. Porsche says its new engines are up to 12% more efficient than the units they replace. The Carrera returns 38.1mpg in PDK guise, while the Carrera S achieves 36.7mpg. The equivalent outgoing models managed

34.4mpg and 32.5mpg respectively.

A new option on the 911 Carrera is a four-wheel steer system, similar to that used by the 911 Turbo and GT3.

Porsche says the system increases agility and reduces the turning circle by 0.4m.

Another option offered for the first time is a hydraulic lifting function that can raise the ride height by 40mm within five seconds. Post-collision braking is now standard, too.

Prices for the facelifted 911 range start at £76,412 for the Carrera, rising to £85,857 for the Carrera S. Cabriolet versions — which go on sale at the same time as the coupés — cost £85,253 and £94,698 respectively.

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Q &A E R H A R D M O S S L E , 9 11 P R O D U CT L I N E D I R ECTO R What was behind the decision to switch to turbocharged engines?

“Our normally aspirated engine is famous, but we have the challenge of regulations on fuel consumption and also challenges from competitors. It’s getting harder to get close to them with a normally aspirated engine.”

Will buyers be happy with turbo engines?

“There will be some discussion over the next six months as customers try the car. It’s similar to when we changed from the 993 to the 996, from air-cooled to water-cooled.

Customers always look for the faster car,

but we are satisfied with this package.”

Is there more power to come from this engine?

“There is more power we can get; it is easier to get more power from a turbocharged engine than a normally aspirated engine. In the 911 GT3 RS, we had to go to 4.0 litres to get more power.”

Is there a place for the new four-cylinder engine family within the 911 range?

“I can’t imagine a four-cylinder in the 911.”

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DESPITE BEING previewed by a soft-top concept, a convertible Ssangyong Tivoli is unlikely. UK boss Paul Williams said: “The factory has bigger priorities. We’re probably not at the point as a brand that we can justify and sustain a convertible.

You need to establish real credibility before making models like that.”

Cactus M concept was inspired by the Mehari off-roader

Drop-top Cactus previewed Citroën s Cactus M concept points the way to a soft-top Citroën’s soft top C4 Cactus hatchback

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itroën has hinted at a possible convertible version of its popular C4 Cactus hatchback with its new Cactus M concept.

The open-top concept is based on the underpinnings used by the production C4 Cactus and takes its inspiration from the French firm’s Mehari lightweight off-roader, which was sold from 1968 to 1988.

Despite its Cactus platform, the concept is a permanent open-top car, like the Mehari.

However, Frédéric Duvernier, Citroën’s external designer for concept cars, said the Cactus M is designed to pay homage to the Mehari rather than copy it.

“There is some pressure,” he said. “If you respect the spirit of the car, it is all right; if you just try to redo the car the same way, it is wrong. The spirit remains. It is true to the original Mehari, not a copycat.”

Unlike the four-door C4 Cactus, the Cactus M is a two-door car. The doors are much longer than those on the production car and are constructed out of one piece of moulded plastic. The doors are covered in the same thermoformed TPU coating used to make the Airbumps on the C4 Cactus.

The windscreen is more

upright than that of the Cactus, partly to make the car appear shorter. The front windscreen surround and the similarly styled rear hoop, which are both finished in a 1mm-thick wood covering, are reinforced for safety and body rigidity.

The cabin is more basic than that of the Cactus and is largely free of fabric. It has drainage holes under the floor mats, allowing it to be hosed down, and the seats and dashboard are covered in the same material used to make wetsuits, so wet passengers can get in without drying off first. Cutouts in the sides of the car act as steps so passengers can climb into the rear.

A lightweight roof doubles as a tent, which can be attached to the top of the car and extended to the rear. The back seats can then be dropped and the bootlid folded down to create a sleeping area for two.

The roof is held in place, either on the top of the car or when it is being used as a tent, by three tubes which are inflated by an on-board compressor.

Power comes from Citroën’s 108bhp 1.2-litre petrol engine.

Claimed fuel economy is only marginally off that of the standard Cactus, at 58.9mpg.

TOM WEBSTER

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A simpler future?

MERCEDES-BENZ parent company Daimler has obtained permission from the state government of Baden-Württemberg to begin public autobahn testing of the autonomous tech previewed on its Future Truck concept.

The technology, which is based around a stereo camera and radar sensors, is similar to that being touted for future incarnations of the S-Class.

THE CACTUS M (left) was built in just six weeks, according to Citroën. “It took six weeks to build it, but to draw it took a bit longer,” said designer Frédéric Duvernier.

“In 2010 I was asked to do a Mehari based on the Cactus.

When Linda Jackson came to the company [as CEO], we decided to make a show car maybe one year ago.”

THE CACTUS M is more evidence of Citroën’s push to make its cars simpler.

This is something that the car’s designer, Frédéric Duvernier, says is possible in part due to the splitting of Citroën and DS into separate brands.

With DS concentrating on premium models, future Citroëns will strip out unnecessary parts and keep things basic.

This doesn’t mean an end to larger Citroëns like

the C5, though. “ I believe there is a way to make a really nice flagship for Citroën,” said Duvernier.

“It will be interesting. The CX from the 1970s was a huge success.”

The future of Citroën, then, could be a long way from even its recent past, when it played up the Germanic elements of its Ford Mondeo-rivalling C5.

Given that it was hardly a sales success, this can only be a good thing.

BUGATTI’S VISION REVEALED

SAFETY FIRST FOR NEW SUVS

Bugatti has released pictures of its concept for the Vision Gran Turismo project. It is said to preview the firm’s new design language, elements of which will be seen on the Veyron’s successor, currently dubbed Chiron, in 2017.

The Volvo XC90 and Audi Q7 have won top marks in the latest Euro NCAP tests. Also scoring five stars were the Renault Kadjar, Ford Galaxy and S-Max, VW Touran and Toyota Avensis. Mazda’s CX-3 and the Mitsubishi L200 scored four stars.

FIAT BOSS SERGIO Marchionne is pushing for a merger with GM, according to Automotive News. “I’ve offered to sit down with them and take them through the numbers,” he said.

GM is showing no sign of enthusiasm for a deal for now.

THE VOLKSWAGEN GROUP appears to be covering all bases for its assault on the alternative fuel market, having registered the Skoda G, H, F and D-Tec names. The G-Tec badge is currently used by a natural gas-powered Citigo and an Octavia with a claimed 826-mile range.

Neither is sold in the UK.

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THISWEEK Drop-top Dawn is powered by Wraith’s 563bhp 6.6-litre V12

Dawn is ‘world’s quietest cabrio’ Rolls-Royce’s ultra-refined Wraith-based convertible is set to arrive early next year, priced at £250k

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he expansion of the Rolls-Royce range has continued with the addition of the Dawn, a soft-top convertible to sit alongside the Wraith coupé in the line-up.

The Dawn’s bodywork is 80% new compared with the Wraith on which it is based.

Rolls says the cabin has room for four adults to sit in comfort.

The only carryover exterior parts from the Wraith are the doors and the grille surround.

Rolls says it has worked hard to ensure that the Dawn is as smooth and quiet as other Rolls-Royce models despite the absence of a fixed roof, delivering on the firm’s famed ‘magic carpet’ ride.

The firm says the Dawn is as quiet as the Wraith with the roof up, and as such is the quietest convertible on the market. The roof retracts in 21 seconds at speeds of up to 30mph.

The company’s design chief, Giles Taylor, set out to create a car that was as beautiful with the roof up as it was down, with the intention of producing “two cars in one”. The firm looked to the 1952 Silver Dawn Drophead, the last coachbuilt Rolls, for inspiration.

Rolls claims the Dawn is the most rigid-bodied four-seat convertible on the market, something in part achieved by a new suspension system with new air springs and revised

anti-roll bars. Rolls is also talking up the agility of the Dawn thanks to this suspension system. The rear track is 24mm wider than that of the Ghost.

Powering the Dawn is the same twin-turbo 6.6-litre V12 used by the Ghost. The engine produces 563bhp at 5250rpm and 575lb ft at 1500rpm and drives the rear wheels through an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox, which links with the sat-nav to automatically preselect the next appropriate

gear. The Dawn can get from 0-62mph in 4.9sec and reach a limited 155mph. Combined fuel economy is 19.9mpg and CO2 emissions are 330g/km.

The Dawn is 5285mm long, 1947mm wide, 1502mm high and has a wheelbase of 3112mm, dimensions broadly in line with those of the Wraith. It weighs 2560kg, some 200kg more than the Wraith. It is set to go on sale early next year, priced at about £250,000.

MARK TISSHAW

The folding fabric roof can be stowed at speeds of up to 30mph

Q &A G I L E S TAY L O R , R O L L S R OYC E D E S I G N D I R ECTO R Is this a Rolls to drive or be driven in?

“To drive. It’s modern, has cool values and a real sexiness. It’s a seminal moment for us, putting a car to the world that celebrates La Dolce Vita.”

Has the Wraith attracted new customers?

“Yes. People are taking it seriously as a young person’s car.

The average buyer age has come down to 45. People no longer see us as stiff and formal. I have no sense of restraint in trying to keep the brand as a certain something; I’m curating it to the buyers and responding to the market.”

Will this less formal look be reflected across the range?

“The Phantom has to have gravitas. But the greater flow of this design, the more relaxed look is something we’ll look to do more of.

The new front end is a contemporary expression of a Rolls-Royce. We’re lowering the formality.”

Rolls claims that the luxurious cabin seats four adults in comfort

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Project 2&4 previews Honda’s Atom smasher Outrageous MotoGP-engined single-seat track car concept revealed as the Japanese firm looks to re-establish itself as a producer of driver-focused performance machines

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onda is previewing an astonishing track-day car with its motorcycleinfluenced and MotoGPpowered Project 2&4, a stunning single-seat Frankfurt show concept that promises to out-Atom the Ariel Atom.

The winner of a global contest between Honda’s design studios, Project 2&4 is a joint project between the firm’s motorcycle and car designers in Osaka and Wako respectively. It’s some 40cm shorter than an Atom, at just 3040mm long, and a little wider, at 1820mm. Honda says the car’s layout and livery are inspired by the RA272 Formula 1 machine that became the first Japanese car to win at the top level of motorsport by claiming the Mexican Grand Prix 40 years ago this October.

Project 2&4 features a novel layout, with the RC213V MotoGP bike’s 999cc V4 engine mounted at one side of the chassis and a single seat ‘suspended’ above the ground by extrusions on the other side.

Honda claims the design is intended to give the driver the same feeling of freedom that he would have on a motorcycle and, barring a four-point harness and a deeply scalloped seat, there’s little to hold the occupant in place.

The V4 motor has been detuned for road use, but Honda says it still produces more than 212bhp at a heady

13,000rpm. The peak torque figure of 87lb ft comes at 10,500rpm, and the limiter will cut in at 14,000rpm (the same figure as the RA272’s 1.5-litre V12, incidentally). Power is transmitted to the rear wheels via a six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission that’s controlled via paddles behind the steering wheel.

The motorcycle engine and bare single-seat layout help Project 2&4 to a remarkable kerb weight of just 405kg — a full 115kg lighter than the twoseat Atom and enough to give the car a power-to-weight ratio of 523bhp per tonne.

Honda has not issued details of the car’s construction, but it appears to be a blend of carbonfibre and aluminium.

The official images of the concept show Öhlins dampers that are likely to be adjustable.

The Project 2&4 does not have a conventional dashboard.

Instead, it uses a transparent digital display to show a range of information. The concept’s display shows a lap of Suzuka circuit and a link from the rear-view camera, which takes the place of side mirrors and is based at the back of the central air intake. The steering wheel itself includes the engine starter button, switches for the trip computer’s stopwatch operation and toggles that are likely to adjust the Project 2&4’s engine and traction control modes.

Honda has declined to confirm if a version of Project 2&4 could reach even limited production. It would have the capacity to manufacture a handful of examples with the competition engine, which is hand-built in Japan, but a larger run would probably require a switch to the motor from the road version of the MotoGP racer, the RC213V-S. The Japanese brand is keen to re-establish itself as a producer of extreme driver-focused cars, helping to support the much-delayed arrival of the NSX supercar next year and the recent return of the Civic Type R hot hatch.

JOHN McILROY

A detuned 999cc MotoGP engine produces 212bhp at 13,000rpm

RENAULT PREVIEWS PICK-UP

STRETCHED TIVOLI ON ITS WAY

The Renault Alaskan concept has been revealed, previewing a planned production pick-up truck due in 2017. The Alaskan will be built alongside equivalents from Nissan and Mercedes-Benz, the latter of which is due by 2020.

A seven-seat, long-wheelbase version of the Ssangyong Tivoli will be shown at Frankfurt.

The XLV-Air is described as a pre-production version of the long-bodied version of the Tivoli that is due to be launched early next year.

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Can Honda build it?

HONDA desperately needs to reignite its reputation as a bold creator of fantastically engineered, driverfocused products as it prepares to bring back the NSX brand — and Project 2&4 could be just the ticket.

There are elements of the concept that are pure fantasy — the high-tech instrument panel would cost the same as an Ariel Atom alone, one suspects. But replace it with a conventional Stack racing display and use the roadgoing RC213V-S engine instead of the MotoGP unit and you could conceivably produce a track-day special that could sell for the price of a high-performance sports car.

Would that make Honda a profit? It’s unlikely. But with the brand’s return to Formula 1 with McLaren faltering badly, a limited production run of even four-fifths of the Project 2&4 concept could indeed do wonders for a brand that badly needs to rediscover its performance mojo before it relaunches its own supercar.

JUKE TO STAY IN SUNDERLAND

RUGGED i20 HERE NEXT YEAR

The next Nissan Juke will continue to be built in Sunderland. It will form part of an extra £100 million funding plan for the factory and help to secure the jobs of 34,000 people both within the company and in the wider supply chain.

Hyundai has confirmed that a beefed-up version of the i20 supermini, dubbed i20 Active, will go on sale in Europe early next year. The car, which has already been seen testing, will become a rival for Volkswagen’s CrossPolo.

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Sleeker looks for new Prius

Sharp new chassis, Mirai-inspired styling and even better economy for Toyota’s hybrid hatchback

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oyota is adopting styling cues from the Mirai fuelcell vehicle for the latest generation of its Prius hybrid, revealed here in official images ahead of a public debut at next week’s Frankfurt show.

The fourth generation of the Prius marks a significant step for Toyota. It is the first model to be developed on the firm’s Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform, a modular set of components designed to offer quicker development of new models as well as cost savings and improved margins across the product line-up.

The new platform brings a more sophisticated chassis than that of the outgoing Prius. Double wishbone rear suspension replaces the current torsion beam layout, accompanying a revised MacPherson set-up at the front. Toyota says the new platform helps to lower the centre of gravity and that this will give the Prius “improved handling response and agility”.

The front of the Prius gets more dramatic headlights and complex surfacing on the bumper, while the side profile is helped by a blacked-out

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Why the new Prius matters

Slightly bigger dimensions promise more space in the Prius’s cabin C-pillar that’s designed to create a ‘floating roof’. The rear has clear cues from the Mirai, including the deep crease above the back wheels, tall taillights and a spoiler integrated into the hatchback glass.

Toyota hasn’t issued any technical details, but the front and rear overhangs look slightly longer than those on the current car, so the new Prius is likely to be slightly longer overall. The powertrain is almost certain to be an updated version of the existing combination of 1.8-litre petrol engine and electric motor, featuring a more compact nickel-metal hydride battery pack that’s quicker to charge.

Senior officials have hinted

at fuel economy gains of 10%.

That could give the Prius a combined economy figure of around 82mpg, potentially taking the regular, non-plug-in version of the car to less than 80g/km of CO2 emissions.

The TNGA will play a key part in Toyota’s future product plans. The firm has previously stated that up to 50% of its global product line-up will eventually switch to the new architecture and that it will offer gains in body rigidity of between 30% and 65%.

The new Prius is due on sale early next year. Prices are likely to stay broadly in line with the current car’s, with a starting figure of around £22,000.

JOHN McILROY

TOYOTA MAY MAKE great claims about the high percentage of Auris hybrids in the overall sales mix and the enthusiastic response to the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, but the Prius is likely to remain the flagbearer for the company’s hybrid powertrains for some time to come. So successful has the model been that for many people, Prius is hybrid.

Don’t expect a revolution in the powertrain technology that underpins

HOT IBIZA GETS NEW ENGINE

INFINITI’S INSIDE LINE ON Q30

The Seat Ibiza Cupra has been revised, getting the 189bhp 1.8-litre turbo engine from the VW Polo GTI. The hot supermini also swaps the old dual-clutch automatic gearbox for a six-speed manual. It will go on sale early next year.

Infiniti has shown off the interior of its allnew Q30 ahead of the premium hatchback’s unveiling at the Frankfurt motor show next week. The Q30 seeks to rival the likes of the Audi A3 and Mercedes-Benz A-Class.

the new car — although even modest gains should be enough for the Prius to trump the NEDC efficiency test and get under the magic 80g/km CO2 mark.

The chassis is the most interesting bit. Everything from Avensis to Auris and lots in between will use the TNGA platform in the years ahead, so the Prius will give us our first look at how Toyota’s vision of a global platform compares with the VW Group’s complex (and expensive) MQB.

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F Pace sets sights on Macan

Jaguar’s sporty SUV is due to be unveiled next week; supercharged V6 model to lead launch line-up

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aguar has released the first image of its new F-Pace SUV ahead of its reveal on the eve of next week’s Frankfurt motor show.

The side profile of the new car reveals that the overall look and proportions have, as promised by insiders, stayed true to the well-received C-X17 concept of 2013, the first time Jaguar went public with its intentions to launch an SUV. Jaguar has confirmed limited information alongside

the image ahead of the car’s full reveal on 14 September, saying only that it will follow the XE and XF in being based on the same modular aluminium platform and be manufactured alongside the saloons at its Solihull plant.

Described by Jaguar as a “performance crossover”, the F-Pace will sit between the XE and XF in length and have a broad set of SUV rivals, with everything from the BMW X3 to the Porsche Macan set

to provide the competition, depending on the version.

The Macan is a key target for the F-Pace, given Jaguar’s previous release of information on the mechanical make-up of the SUV. The F-Pace will use an all-wheel drive set-up derived from that used by the F-Type sports car and designed to increase agility as much as boost traction. The electric steering system is also linked to that used by the all-wheel-

drive F-Type, as is the torque vectoring system.

The engine range will be borrowed from the XE and XF, meaning Jaguar Land Rover’s new 181bhp Ingenium 2.0-litre diesel engine will be offered alongside larger 3.0-litre V6 diesel and supercharged petrol engines, the latter of which will power an S-badged performance model (riding on the 22in wheels seen here) from launch. Hotter R and SVR models are expected to follow.

Rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual gearbox will be offered on a keenly priced entry-level model, with an eight-speed automatic ’box and all-wheel drive available on the V6 models and optional on the four-cylinder diesel.

A starting price of around £35,000 is expected for the F-Pace, which should be ready for ordering after its Frankfurt debut and ahead of deliveries next spring.

MARK TISSHAW

Three new plug-in hybrids to join BMW’s line-up BMW WILL LAUNCH three new petrol-electric plug-in hybrid models early next year following their debuts at the Frankfurt motor show.

The 225xe Active Tourer, 330e and 740e will join the X5 xDrive40e and i8 sports car to provide BMW with a five-strong range of plug-in hybrids, with new chairman Harald Krüger promising further petrol-electric models throughout next year.

The 225xe draws on the

plug-in hybrid technology developed for the i8 to offer the choice between front, rear or four-wheel drive, depending on the driving conditions.

A 134bhp turbocharged 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol engine sends power to the front wheels via a sixspeed automatic gearbox.

The combustion engine is supported by an 88bhp electric motor mounted within the rear axle, driving the rear wheels via a fixed-ratio gearbox.

The 225xe can travel up to 25 miles on electric power alone. At a constant cruise over longer distances, it is programmed to run in frontwheel drive, with power provided exclusively by the petrol engine at speeds of up

to 126mph in order to preserve the energy reserves of its 7.7kWh lithium ion battery.

Under acceleration, the petrol engine and electric motor pool their resources to provide a combined system output of 221bhp and 284lb ft, as well as four-wheel drive, in hybrid mode. A 0-62mph time of 6.7sec is claimed.

The larger rear-wheel-drive 330e saloon relies on a detuned version of the plug-in petrolelectric powertrain used by the X5 xDrive40e. It features a turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine and an electric motor mounted within the gearbox to provide combined outputs of 248bhp and 310lb ft, along with 148.7mpg combined fuel economy and CO2 emissions

OFFICIAL PICTURES of 44g/km. The lithium ion battery provides an electriconly range of 25 miles.

The flagship of BMW’s new plug-in hybrid line-up is the 740e. Available in standard and long-wheelbase bodystyles with rear-wheel drive (740e and 740Le) or in

long-wheelbase form with four-wheel drive (740Le xDrive), it also draws on the plug-in hybrid system used by the X5 xDrive40e.

Claimed figures for the 740e are 321bhp, 369lb ft, 134.5mpg and 49g/km, plus a 25-mile electric-only range.

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New 124 Spider will look like a modern version of the original

Fiatroadstershuns500look New 124 Spider to draw inspiration from its forebear, not the 500; unique styling for Abarth version

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he Fiat 124 Spider and its Abarth offshoot will be much farther apart than first thought, senior company sources have revealed.

The new Mazda MX-5-based sports cars, due next year, were among 30 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles products shown at a global dealer conference in Las Vegas last week.

Although it was known that

the 124 Spider would spawn an Abarth version, as with other Fiats in the range, what has become clear is just how different the pair are.

Rather than the Abarth version getting the usual performance makeover of more aggressive-looking front and rear ends, the sports car will actually get different sheet metal from the donor car for a completely fresh look.

Previous artist’s impressions of the 124 Spider are also understood to have been very wide of the mark. There will be no Fiat 500 references in the 124 Spider’s styling. Instead, it will be unashamedly a modern version of the original 124 Spider, with associated styling cues, in the same way that the new 500 is a modern version of the original.

Sources have also shed light on the engines the pair will use.

Mazda engines will not feature.

Instead, the 1.4-litre Multiair turbo from the Fiat range will be adapted for a longitudinal, rear-wheel-drive application.

The aluminium 1750 TBi engine from the Alfa Romeo 4C had been hotly tipped to power the Abarth version.

However, it is considered an Alfa engine, so it won’t appear

in the Abarth in this form.

Instead, it is likely to have the bore and stroke adapted to give it a different capacity from its Alfa application.

Also due next year is an Abarth version of the recently revised 500. This will be more extreme than the current model, in line with Abarth’s desire to make itself a more credible performance brand.

MARK TISSHAW

Jaguar Land Rover reveals new electric tech JAGUAR LAND ROVER has revealed three technology demonstrators that give a look at its zero-emissions and electric future.

The cars have been in development for the past two years and explore different battery-based options. JLR claims the batteries in question are twice as powerful and capable of producing twice as much torque as any electric motor in production today.

It also says they are designed to be integrated with any engine and transmission combination to create a mild hybrid or a plug-in hybrid, or used on their own for a batterypowered electric vehicle.

The first of the cars is called the Concept e MHEV. It is a mild hybrid based on a Range Rover Evoque and pairs a prototype 89bhp diesel engine and a 48V lithium ion battery pack.

The Concept e PHEV is a

plug-in hybrid. It uses a similar set-up to the mild hybrid but adds a much larger battery and a 296bhp petrol engine, also described as a prototype. The battery is a 320V lithium ion unit located in the boot of the car, a Range Rover Sport. It uses the standard eight-speed automatic gearbox and retains the full-time four-wheel drive system, but the 150kW electric motor is capable of replacing the starter motor.

The final concept is a bespoke model based on JLR’s new aluminium platform. The 70kWh lithium ion battery powers an 85kW electric motor on the front axle and a 145kW version on the rear.

JLR insists the three cars are merely test prototypes and has not yet revealed any performance details. Any production cars that arise from the testing are unlikely to go on sale before 2020.

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Tester’s Notes

MattPrior

Drivers in Spain take a more relaxed stance on tailgating

Spanish supercar now on sale in UK

SPANISH SUPERCAR BRAND AD Tramontana has officially been launched in the UK and will offer its V10 and V12engined two-seaters in this country for the first time.

The company plans to sell up to three models in the UK in its first year. All cars are made at its factory in Barcelona.

Although several versions of the Tramontana are available internationally, the version being touted in the UK is the mid-range XTR. Prices for this model start at about

£430,000. It features a Mercedes-sourced 5.5-litre twin-turbocharged V12 engine producing 710bhp in standard form. That’s enough to give the XTR a 0-62mph sprint time of less than 3.3sec and a top speed of more than 200mph.

The two-seat XTR is street legal, although company officials admit its styling will divide opinions.

The firm has already said it’s working on more powerful variants and is testing hybrid and fully electric powertrains.

New Tesla in 2017

PRODUCTION OF THE all-electric Tesla Model 3 will begin in 2017, company boss Elon Musk has revealed, with pre-orders opening after the BMW 3 Series-rivalling saloon is unveiled next March.

Few details about the Model 3 have been revealed, but sources have indicated that performance up to 62mph could eclipse that of the BMW M3, which records a 0-62mph time of 4.1sec in M DCT form. Sources suggest the Model 3 will

have a range of up to 300 miles on one charge.

The Model 3 is expected to sit on bespoke underpinnings rather than a cut-down version of the Model S platform, because it is tipped be around threequarters of the size of the Model S and significantly lower in price.

Prices will start at $35,000 (about £25,000) in the US. Export costs and taxes are likely to mean that it will sell for around £35,000 in the UK.

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’ve been sworn at in enough different languages to know that, deep down, fundamentally none of us on this planet is all that different.

But I’ve also been tailgated enough times through Belgium to know that where you come from makes a difference to what you’re like as a driver.

Last week I drove 3200 miles across Europe, in a Land Rover Defender, which gave me ample opportunity to see other drivers from a slow-moving vehicle – like a fat referee struggling in the melee of a football match. And it set me wondering: where exactly will you find Europe’s worst drivers?

Aforementioned Belgium?

Perhaps. I’m quite serious about the tailgating. You can be in France one minute, where lane discipline is almost as exemplary as an autoroute’s road surface. The next moment you’re in Belgium and it’s an evens bet which you’ll see first: a windscreen so large in your rear-

In French tailgating, the indicators are used in threeminute spells or not at all view mirror that you can read warning notices printed on the sun visors, or a pothole the size of a 1932 Austin Seven.

Curiously, though, it’s not an aggressive tailgate like you’d find on the Hammersmith Flyover in London. Belgian drivers are just waiting, closely, often while towing a trailer, most likely for another traffic jam to begin.

The French version of tailgating is slightly more assertive. It’s probably accompanied by a left-hand

Welcome to Belgium: please drive closely, especially if you’re towing

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indicator, things used in threeminute spells or not at all, impatiently suggesting that, really, you’ve passed that Dutch caravan now and it’s time to pull to the right. It works. Dedication to the correct lane goes to make French autoroutes boring but mostly frustration-free.

Spanish motorways are similar, but both outright lane discipline and following distances are more sloppily applied. Sometimes an entire vehicle could be fitted between me and the Spanish car following me. Sometimes a Belgian tourist proved it.

But on back roads, there is impatience in Spain. Not as much, perhaps, as in Italy, where reckless overtaking is a national pastime. And overtaking skills are seemingly lacking in every single country I’ve ever visited.

Whether it’s a lack of patience or spatial awareness that means drivers sit so close they cannot see the road ahead at all, I don’t know. But in the end it made me yearn for dear old Blighty.

And then I returned to it. No word of a lie, before I had even pulled onto the M20, I spotted him, in a red, 15-year-old BMW, slavishly dedicated to the middle lane, setting his speed only by what was in front of him, affecting precisely everyone in the vicinity. Sigh. I nearly turned around and headed south again.

Some of the very worst drivers, I fear, are here.

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THISWEEK

A Week In Cars

SteveCropley

TUESDAY

It’s time for our Ferrari FF to meet its new owner. At least 10 of us have enjoyed its aura, not to mention the 650bhp V12 that puts towering performance under your right foot. Happily, the FF’s long nose and exposed alloy wheels (whose shapely spokes curve seductively outward) have remained unblemished in 5500 miles.

When test cars are worth £200k, there’s always an element of relief in handing them back. What I’ll remember most fondly about this one is its surprisingly practical nature, mixed with the strength of its Maranello-forged character. No one else makes cars like this.

WEDNESDAY

Fascinating chat with Peter Guest, director of the new Bentley Bentayga project, about his four action-packed years in charge. Guest and Autocar have shared history: in 2002, we set out, with generous help from thenbooming TWR, to build a full-size concept car as a way of understanding car design.

Guest did the difficult stuff because, then as now, he was one of those rare engineers who can organise things, too.

Random thought: what would a low-volume SUV by Zenos or West ield look like?

With designer Neil Simpson, we created a three-seat concept called 3PV (for Three Person Vehicle) and exhibited it in front of 300 UK industry leaders. It went down a storm and we were extravagantly praised. But if it hadn’t been for Simpson and Guest, it wouldn’t have been born.

And another thing…

Fancy seeing Andy Green’s 1000mph Bloodhound land speed record car up close? If so, you’re invited to the first public viewing, to be held at Canary Wharf in London on 25-26 September. It’s free.

steve.cropley@autocar.co.uk

‘Our’ Ferrari FF is now someone else’s; it has been a blast

THURSDAY

Since he died just over a week ago, I’ve been ruminating on the contribution to our car society made by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, founder and keeper of the National Motor Museum for more than 60 years. I never knew him well, although I did ride shotgun a couple of times on the motoring event he loved most, the London to Brighton Run for pre-1905 cars.

Like his father, Montagu wrote books and was a tireless motoring lobbyist, but his key contribution, I believe, was to show what a force for good car museums can be. Clearly, they’re fun for visitors, but they also enhance the reputations of car makers by venerating their achievements. To know how much motoring heritage

The guy behind Bentley’s Bentayga once helped us make this concept matters, consider the situations of those who hardly have any.

FRIDAY

Random thought: what would a low-volume SUV by Zenos or Westfield look like? Fell to pondering this while my nose was in a book about the history of British sports roadsters. Fifty years ago, our major companies bred a family of simple roadsters (MG, Triumph) whereupon radical thinkers in lowervolume companies (Lotus, TVR) made much better cars using bolder parameters and avant-garde design. Now SUVs are the rage, I’m wondering if there’s anything radical a little company could do with an SUV. The Ariel Nomad is a step in that direction. Could there be others?

SATURDAY/SUNDAY Spent the driving part of my weekend in a Honda Civic

Tourer, heading to and from Carfest South, the charity event fronted by Chris Evans at Jody Scheckter’s place, Laverstoke Park, in Hampshire.

I found the Civic an effortless, enjoyable car whose creamy diesel strikes a seemingly impossible compromise between strong torque and remarkable fuel economy.

Carfest was made enjoyable by the cheery Honda folk the Steering Committee and I were able to hang out with. It also provided a fascinating chance to clock Chris Evans up close.

Have to say I’ve got serious doubts whether his One Show/ Radio 2 demeanour will cut it with a Top Gear audience used to the trio of troublemakers who have just vacated the TG space. It’ll be very different, that’s for sure. Wish we didn’t have to wait eight months to get the answers.

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Volkswagen Passat Alltrack 3.9.15, Germany High-riding 4x4 version of the latest Passat Estate promises all-roads capability

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nveiled at the Geneva motor show in March, the latest high-riding, four-wheel-drive Volkswagen Passat Alltrack will go on sale in the UK in November. It’s based on the sharply styled eighthgeneration Passat Estate but is set apart from its sibling by a series of subtle exterior styling changes that are similar to those adopted by its predecessor.

The most apparent design differences are the unique front and rear bumpers, which have silver plastic scuff plates and black plastic valance panels, and the integrated front foglights on higher-end versions. Further changes include Alltrack badges on the grille and front wings, silver and black door mirror housings, integrated roof rails and black cladding around the wheel arches and along the sills.

The Passat Alltrack is also fitted with superior underbody protection and, with new springs and dampers, has a ride height of 174mm – 28mm more than the standard Passat Estate. Wheels are 18in as standard, 28 AUTOCAR.CO.UK 9 SEPTEMBER 2015

with 19in rims available as an option.

The Passat Alltrack will be offered with a choice of two petrol and three diesel engines in other markets, but the UK will have a simpler line-up: a 2.0-litre diesel in either 148bhp or 187bhp states of tune. For the record, the petrol engines are 148bhp 1.4 and 217bhp 2.0-litre units, while the non-UK diesel is a 237bhp 2.0 TDI. As with the previous Passat Alltrack, four-wheel drive is standard on this second-generation model. It’s a 4Motion system with an electromechanical multi-plate clutch.

Like the latest Passat Estate, the Alltrack is extremely practical and very roomy. There’s plenty of accommodation in both the front and rear seats, as well as a generous 639 litres of luggage space underneath the cargo blind.

The Alltrack also offers a level of finish within its interior that shames many higher-priced alternatives.

Helping to differentiate its cabin from that of its sibling are standard stainless steel sill plates and uniquely upholstered seats.

The added ride height provides the driver with a more commanding view of the road and the four-wheel drive system delivers impressive traction. In everyday driving, though, the Alltrack’s dynamic abilities and overall comfort are virtually indistinguishable from those of the excellent Passat Estate 4Motion, making it ideally suited to those who spend most of their time on road but

The 148bhp 2.0 TDI engine is perfectly suited to the Alltrack, providing lexibility and strong character

Alltrack rides 28mm higher than the standard Passat and has skidplates at each end

FIRSTDRIVE

Driver sits slightly higher than in a regular Passat, but the clean-lined look, ergonomic layout and impressive perceived quality are all carried over

Even the less powerful of the two diesel engine options is gutsy while promising close to 60mpg; Alltrack can handle modest off-road excursions seek a car capable of handling mild off-road excursions.

The 148bhp version of VW’s 2.0 TDI engine (as tested here) is perfectly suited to the Alltrack, providing it with a flexible delivery and strong character well into the mid-range, along with a good combination of performance and fuel economy.

The 187bhp 2.0 TDI is available with a six-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox, but a six-speed manual is the sole choice for the 148bhp version. Official claims for the lower-powered model include a 0-62mph time of 9.2sec and a 127mph top speed, along with combined economy of 57.7mpg and CO2 emissions of 130g/km.

The Alltrack comes with Eco, Normal and Sport driving modes.

There’s also an Individual setting that allows drivers to tailor the characteristics of the steering, throttle and gearbox to their liking, and an optional adaptive chassis control system brings with it a fifth driving mode, called Off-road.

Taut damping ensures that body roll builds progressively and remains well contained when you push hard over winding back roads. Although the Alltrack leans more than the regular estate in tighter corners, it never builds to the same degree as the more expensive Touareg SUV, which offers similar levels of accommodation and luggage space.

The additional spring travel brought on by the increase in ride height results in a slight improvement in ride in the comfortorientated Normal mode. As with the Passat Estate, the electro-mechanical steering is very light in town, and although it weights up at higher speeds, it fails to give much feedback.

With conventional steel coil springs instead of air springs, you can’t alter the ride height when you head off road. But with more ground clearance than the standard Passat Estate, the Alltrack can tackle gravel tracks with a good deal of gusto.

The Off-road driving mode automatically recalibrates the settings of the standard

electronically controlled traction and stability systems as well as the hill hold, hill descent system and, where fitted, the dual-clutch automatic’s shift points, all for added ability in off-road conditions.

The Alltrack also promises to offer excellent towing ability, with a maximum braked towing capacity of 2200kg for the 187bhp version and 1800kg for the 148bhp base model. To aid with hitching and reversing with a trailer, there is an optional trailer assist function. This provides the driver with guidance via a rear-view camera, which projects images and steering angles on to the multimedia monitor.

If you seek a car that has excellent on-road qualities while also being capable of tackling the odd excursion away from the asphalt, the Passat Alltrack makes a pretty solid case for itself. It may not provide the most riveting of driving experiences, but the high-riding estate has dependable all-season abilities that outshine some dedicated SUV rivals’.

GREG KABLE

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT ALLTRACK 2.0 TDI 150 As practical, roomy and likeable as the regular Passat Estate, but with enhanced off-road ability

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BMW 320d M Sport

28.8.15, Bedfordshire Popular compact exec is facelifted in a bid to fend off stiffening competition

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e all know what it’s like to feel under pressure. But imagine the pressure you’d feel if you were a BMW engineer and your boss told you: “Okay, next job on your list: improve the 3 Series.” Yikes.

Not only is it a massive seller for the Munich marque – the 3 Series accounts for 25% of all BMWs sold – but it’s also the benchmark compact executive saloon and has been for the past 40 years.

That’s probably why BMW didn’t radically alter the car’s looks for this facelifted version. The front air intakes have been enlarged and the headlights, which now include an LED option, have been changed.

At the back, BMW’s signature L-shaped light design has been crystallised by new all-LED taillights. Modifications to the cabin have been equally restrained, with the addition of gloss black surfaces and some extra chrome highlights.

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Audi A4, are the performance and fuel economy gains achieved by this new modular 2.0-litre diesel engine, which uses Efficient Dynamics technology. Power has increased by 6bhp and torque is up by 15lb ft compared with the previous model.

Meanwhile, the all-important CO2 emissions are now down to 111g/km, while combined economy has improved to 67.3mpg.

Those performance gains may be modest, but this was always a beefy diesel, and it’s now even more meaty. Whatever the figures say, in a real-world drag race the BMW will monster an equivalent XE – especially with the superb optional eight-speed automatic gearbox, which knocks a tenth of a second off the 0-62mph time of the manual version. Just keep 1500rpm showing on the rev counter and you can rest easy that plenty of poke will always be available.

We had hoped for some bigger improvements in refinement, though. It’s on a par with the XE’s Ingenium diesel and better than the

gruff-sounding Mercedes-Benz C220 Bluetec, but knowing how whisperquiet this engine is in a 5 Series prompts the question: why the background clatter here?

The 3 Series’ claim to being the best-handling car in its class took a bit of a wobble when we drove the XE. As a countermeasure, BMW has retuned the steering and stiffened the 3 Series’ suspension, which, on

There was talk that the 3 Series was losing its sporting edge, but this one is plenty sporty enough

Revised 3 Series has stiffer suspension; M Sport is firmer still but not uncomfortable

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Changes to the interior are minor and include extra chrome trim and gloss black surfaces; perceived quality and ease of use remain impressive

Body control is good in M Sport spec; standard steering is better than the optional speed-sensitive set-up; rear cabin space is competitive this M Sport model, is even stiffer still and 10mm lower. Our test car also had optional adaptive dampers and 19in wheels.

Although the suspension is always firm, even in the Comfort setting, it’s extremely well controlled. The body tracks the topography of a typical British B-road like a kestrel on the hunt. There’s hardly any rebound off crests, and it stays remarkably level through corners.

For such a stiffly sprung car, bump absorption is okay. It’ll take the edge off most lumps and bumps, but hit a vicious pothole and you will feel it. If you prefer to tour in your car, rather than feel like you’re in a touring car, it’s better to go for SE trim and smaller wheels.

On a damp track, our test car seemed a little grip-limited – which could be down to the tyres – but still beautifully balanced. This is when you realise that banging on about 50/50 weight distribution, as BMW does, is not only marketing spiel but also smart engineering.

The revised steering is a bit of

a mixed bag. The optional speedsensitive Servotronic set-up fitted to our test car lacks weight around the straight-ahead at speed but adds too much resistance thereafter, especially in Sport mode.

However, stick with the standard rack and you get excellent gearing that results in the steering feeling linear and accurate.

The optional M Sport brakes don’t feel great, even though they do stop the car well. The initial feel is okay, but when you started to lean on them, there come to a point where the pedal loses any progressive quality.

As tends to be the case with big tyres, you get a lot of road noise at speed, although, that said, a similarly shod XE is appreciably quieter. The previous 3 Series’ issue of wind noise around the door mirrors is still in evidence, too, but it’s the lesser of these two evils.

The minor cabin upgrades feel greater than the sum of their parts. The gloss black surfaces and additional chrome detailing enhance the premium feel. Throw

in the well-damped switchgear and functionality of the superb iDrive multimedia controller and you’re left in little doubt that this is one of the better cabins in the class.

Otherwise, it’s much the same as before. The driving position is good, apart from the slightly offset pedals and the lack of lumbar adjustment on the grippy M Sport seats. The cabin is also roomy enough to seat four adults easily, and the boot is bigger than that of a C-Class or an XE. There was talk that the 3 Series was losing its sporting edge, but there’s no doubt that this M Sport version is plenty sporty enough.

In fact, even though each change is individually small, they all add up to make this new 3 Series a demonstrably better all-round car.

Is it back to being the best compact exec? On the basis of this first drive and in diesel guise, yes, but not by the big margin it once enjoyed. The competition is just too good these days, and when the new A4 arrives, the pressure will be back on.

JOHN HOWELL

BMW 320D M SPORT AUTO Still the benchmark diesel-engined compact executive saloon, by the slenderest of margins

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Kia Cee’d 1.6 CRDi 136 DCT

2.9.15, Slovakia Facelift brings fresh powertrain options to Kia’s Ford Focus-rivalling hatchback

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ew manufacturers have been as fascinating to watch in their development as Kia. The first generations of its products in the UK – including the Cee’d in 2006 – were praised for their low prices, but there was little else of real merit. With each passing generation, though, most of its models have become better to drive, cheaper to run and nicer to sit in. The Cee’d is the very definition of that progress.

This year marks the current Cee’d’s mid-life facelift, but there’s more to it than simple styling revisions. Kia has also been busy experimenting with ball joints and stabiliser bars to ensure not only keener handling but also better comfort and refinement.

The firm has also introduced a new turbocharged 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol engine, but here we’re trying another of the Cee’d’s revisions: a new seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox, now available with the more powerful rangetopping diesel engine, which trades the old model’s 126bhp and 195lb ft outputs for 134bhp and 221lb ft.

The new transmission allows you ready access to that performance, too, giving just the right number of downshifts on kickdown but changing down just once or not at all when treading more gently on the throttle pedal. It’s a reasonably quiet engine, too – certainly less vocal than the Volkswagen Group’s oil-burners of the same capacity. There’s distant engine boom and slight vibration through the pedals at high revs, but most of the time you’ll enjoy smooth, settled progress. A new cylinder block cover and sturdier dashboard insulation and carpet are among the reasons for that.

The Cee’d still lags behind its rivals on ride and handling, though.

Our test route threw up some UK-like broken surfaces, the most high-frequency of which the Cee’d’s dampers struggled to cope with. The soft set-up does, however, mean that lower-speed bumps are dealt with quite comfortably, although there’s noticeable body lean if you push on.

The Cee’d’s steering has never been a strong point, and that continues.

There’s little feedback in any of its modes – Normal, Comfort or Sport – and its straight-ahead vagueness and inconsistent weighting ruin any chance of fun, despite a newly introduced torque vectoring system that brakes a spinning inside wheel during vigorous cornering.

The Cee’d can at least compete on space. It’s not as generous with its rear leg room as the class-best Skoda Octavia, but there’s room for four adults to sit comfortably, while the boot, at 380 litres and with a low loading lip, is spacious and practical.

The perceived quality of the cabin can’t match that of a Volkswagen Golf, but it feels solidly constructed with switchgear that’s substantial to the touch. This year’s new chrome accents are more convincing than in Kias of old, and the TFT screen between the dials is easy to cycle through and impressive to look at.

All Cee’ds with sat-nav now come with a new level of online connectivity provided via TomTom, but overall the Kia’s multimedia system remains behind those of its

Spacious cabin benefits from a generous helping of standard kit; ride is comfortable, but handling is let down by vague steering

rivals. Its 7.0in screen is responsive and menus are simple enough, but its smartphone integration and functionality is in need of a new generation rather than a facelift.

Kia is yet to release prices and specific trim level equipment, but it’s safe to assume that this rangetopping 4 Tech 1.6 diesel with the new dual-clutch automatic gearbox will come in at around £24,000.

There’s better value in opting for the (traditionally) still brilliantly equipped lower trims, but even at this lofty level the Kia’s price looks competitive next to rivals, given its huge kit list. True, there’s still work to be done on the car’s dynamics, but ultimately there are now even more reasons to have the Cee’d on your list of family car test drives.

RORY WHITE

KIA CEE’D 1.6 CRDI 136 DCT 4 TECH 5DR Well equipped and practical, with an emphasis on refinement rather than an engaging drive

AAAAC Price Engine Power Torque Gearbox Kerb weight 0-62mph Top speed Economy CO2/tax band

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Skoda Octavia vRS 230

3.9.15, Slovakia Special edition gains power and an e-diff in pursuit of greater driver rewards

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ou’ve got to feel a little sorry for the Skoda Octavia vRS. It’s consummately loveable for its excellent practicality allied to cut-price thrills, but despite sharing hardware with the Volkswagen Golf GTI, it has always had a whiff of ‘know your place’ about it compared with its illustrious VW stablemate.

Yes, it has the same MQB platform and engine, but with a Golf GTI you’re allowed a Haldex electronic differential and adaptive dampers.

You can’t get either on the vRS. And the Skoda is heavier than the VW, so it’ll be left behind in a drag race. Perhaps, then, this vRS 230 special edition is the Octavia’s moment to shine.

The 2.0 TSI engine gets an extra 10bhp (hence the ‘230’ badging) thanks to a higher boost pressure and a freer-flowing sports exhaust.

Crucially, though, it has an e-diff, and when combined, these upgrades make it 10 seconds quicker around the Nürburgring than a regular vRS. The vRS’s chiselled looks remain,

but with added menace courtesy of a gloss black grille, door mirrors, spoiler and exhaust trims. Red brake calipers and 19in alloy wheels finish the effect. Inside, there’s red-stitched electric leather sports seats, sat-nav and a lap timer.

Maxed out, the vRS 230 will hit 155mph, and it’ll beat the standard car to 62mph by a tenth of a second, taking 6.7sec. That’s still a couple of tenths shy of a Golf GTI, but it feels quick enough.

We were driving on the open expanse of the Slovakia Ring circuit, where 227bhp could have felt a little underwhelming. But this engine’s broad torque curve and free-revving nature made it feel quite at home.

You can order a DSG dual-clutch automatic gearbox, but we gave the six-speed manual a try. It has a light, slick change, but the pedals are too far apart for heel-and-toeing.

A couple of heavy stops on each lap highlighted the lack of feel from the brakes and a nervous rear end when the front dives down. However, they

shed speed well enough and kept on biting lap after lap.

Get through the braking phase and into a corner and you’ll find that the vRS 230 has an eager, pointy front end. With the drive selector in Sport to sharpen things up, the steering is nicely weighted for the track, but there’s a deficiency of feel through the wheel.

There are no changes to the suspension from the standard vRS, and it continues to do without an adaptive option. The spring rates and anti-roll bar settings allow plenty of body lean as lateral forces build, and you get bundles of understeer the moment you push beyond the limit of grip. It’s nothing like as playful as a Ford Focus ST, but it’s predictable and unlikely to spit you into a ditch.

The e-diff can shove 100% of the torque to whichever front tyre can cope with it better. This reduces the scrabble out of corners and produces a tighter line than you’d get from the standard vRS. It’s not as aggressive as the Golf’s diff, though; Skoda says

this is to keep the Octavia’s more friendly, family-car feel.

And the ride? Difficult to say, considering our complete lack of road driving. The bigger wheels may make things worse, but otherwise it should be the same as the standard car.

To give some context, the vRS 230 is £2500 more than the standard vRS but comes with more kit and better performance. It’s also still cheaper than a Golf GTI and around the same money as a Focus ST3.

It’s not the quickest of the three and it didn’t feel best suited to the track, but that’ll probably make it a pretty decent road car. And if you need your hatch to be handy as well as hot, you can’t do much better than this for practicality. Unless, that is, you buy the estate version instead.

JOHN HOWELL

SKODA OCTAVIA VRS 230 Better than a regular vRS to drive but not as much fun as a Ford Focus ST. Very practical, though

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Bentley vs Tesla | Comparison The Mulsanne Speed features a specially developed Sport mode

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ot so deep into Bentley’s website, just a few clicks through virtual pages where glossy people drive opulent cars in gilded vistas, there is a description of the new Mulsanne Speed. “This,” Bentley says, “is a car for independent thinkers. For those with the unquenchable desire to take the wheel and change the world, there is no more accomplished combination of performance, luxury and style.”

Independent thinkers, eh? Changing the world, in fact? Oh, really? Pan that mental film reel in your head to the innocuous-looking white car here.

The Tesla Model S is the vehicular equivalent of man’s footprint on the moon: a luxury saloon that makes electric propulsion desirable and feasible to a huge audience, thanks to a claimed range of 305 miles, a reasonable price and all the smug feel-good factor (if not more) that you get with conventional diesel alternatives from BMW, Audi et al. Not only that but, in the devastatingly rapid 682bhp four-wheel-drive P85D model we have here, it’s also got the sort of performance that – even today – seems remarkable.

So let’s get something straight. These two cars count as luxury performance saloons in the same way that Hampton Court Palace and The Shard are both buildings of architectural interest.

The Bentley Mulsanne Speed is a prime piece of gentrified chic that wears its appeal brazenly in the badge on its lofty bonnet, through the splendid mutter from its updated 6.75-litre, 530bhp twinturbo V8 and via the silkiness of its hide and the general presence it exudes like a forcefield. At £252,000 (not including the breathtaking £55,400 worth of options fitted to our car), its ‘proper’ competition includes a Rolls-Royce Phantom, or use of a private helicopter – and that’s about it.

Perhaps most crucially with this top-end version of Bentley’s grandest model, there’s also the question of whether it can live up to its billing as a Mulsanne that you want drive rather than sit in the back of in order to be driven.

Even so, the Tesla poses an interesting if abstract contrast. Can a £79,900 car (after the government’s £5000 plug-in car grant) really show up the opulent Mulsanne Speed? Does it really feel £177,100 cheaper? It’s certainly not slower. In ◊

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Δfact, the Tesla makes the Bentley’s ‘Speed’ moniker seem somewhat ironic, given that the Mulsanne reaches 62mph in 4.9sec, while the Tesla will do it in a supercar-worrying 3.1sec.

I start the day off in the Tesla, drifting down familiar roads in the New Forest in eerie silence, pondering what the shortfalls of this car really are.

Turns out that we’ll stumble on the most obvious later in the day, but in this sunny moment I feel like I’m probably just as happy with my mode of transport as are those sickeningly smug people paraded on Bentley’s website.

Sure, the Model S’s interior is a bit drab in places. Most notably, the old Mercedes-Benz stalks and the finish on the steering wheel aren’t quite what you’d want of an £80k car, while the electrically powered driver’s seat should drop a bit lower. But who really cares when you’ve got a car with all the futuristic appeal of R2-D2 riding a hoverboard? You don’t even have to press a Start button; just pull the automatically extending door handles, step in and go. Trust me, there’s a weirdly thrilling satisfaction to that – like you’re much too important to have time for crankshafts and oil pumps and other such archaisms.

So just when you’re brimming with joy at the ingenuity of humanity and the fact that there is clearly plenty of life after the petrol pump for us enthusiasts, you find a button marked ‘Acceleration: insane’. All thoughts of saving the planet evaporate.

I do not exaggerate: simply flooring it in a P85D has got to be one of the most extraordinary experiences in modern transport – and our car didn’t even have the just-announced ‘Ludicrous’ mode, which drops the 0-60mph time to 2.8sec.

THE BENTLEY MAKES YOU WANT TO BUY A SMOKING JACKET AND A GUN DOG Digital acceleration is notable for its apparent lack of fluster anyway, but on this scale it’s truly unsettling. There’s no tyre slip. No drama.

No complicated launch mode. No pause for gearchanges. No noise other than your own involuntary swearing. Just stand on the correct pedal and in the next heartbeat you’re doing 40mph and up as your diaphragm tries to untangle itself from your spine.

I’d defy anyone not to make a noise when experiencing a standing start in a Tesla. It seems to be an involuntary response necessary to help your brain cope with what the hell just happened.

This is all achieved by seemingly quite simple technology. A big electric motor at the back sends 464bhp to the rear wheels, while a smaller electric motor at the front puts out 218bhp and powers the front wheels. A mattress of lithium ion batteries sits beneath the floor, leaving room for sizeable

boots at the front and back and loads of passenger space. You also get hundreds of miles of range.

Yet the Bentley has a character all of its own.

Slide into the diamond-stitched embossed seats and take in the immaculately appointed confection that is the interior and it feels as if there’s a sixfigure difference in value right there. Someone has clearly lavished varnish on the wood for days on end, probably with a brush made of unicorn hair, and the leather smells of sweet, sweet success.

In the same way that the Tesla transports you to a future ruled by instant everything, the Bentley makes you want to buy a smoking jacket and a gun dog and go and live somewhere stone-built and untouched by the relentless creep of technology.

Of course, I may be doing the Bentley a disservice by suggesting that it’s backwardlooking. It has an effective, modern-feeling sat-nav and audio system, and if you sit in the back, where there’s enough open floor space to iron your slacks if you want, you will find iPad holders. Woodenclad, electronically extending iPad holders, no less, that prop your tablet up just so and keep it charged.

Details such as these make the Bentley feel so special: the soft-close action on the door to the chilled champagne cabinet; the embroidered leather case for the warning triangle; the specific ‘B’ setting on the standard variable driving modes, so you know that this is how Bentley’s own engineers would have the standard air suspension, steering and gearbox tune.

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Comparison | Bentley vs Tesla ∆ Speed. It’s this, and the extra power and torque – 530bhp and 811lb ft to the regular car’s 506bhp and 752lb ft – that set the Speed apart.

Set off with gusto, though, and it doesn’t feel dramatically different from the standard Mulsanne. It has the same overall sense that it’s progressing by pounding the road into submission, delivering wonderfully enjoyable but generally heavy-handed responses. Turn in and, regardless of the firmer set-up, you’re keenly aware of the weight, as all 2.7 tonnes lean over onto the outside wheel, promptly surrendering the car into easily manageable but quite copious amounts of understeer. Of course, if you have the guts and the space, you can poke the twin-turbo V8 motor and get the back end to step out, but that would be frankly vulgar – like seeing the Queen in denim.

Still, the Mulsanne is a joy to drive. In moderately vigorous use there’s satisfaction to be had in sweeping through bends and generally revelling in the grandeur. It’s a lovely engine, and the eight-speed automatic transmission – also tuned specifically for the Speed’s monstrous level of torque – does a good job of shuffling the ratios to make sure that you’re always best placed to take advantage of an ocean of thrust.

It even rides with suitable aplomb, particularly at sedate speeds, when it sighs over broken roads and leaves you mostly oblivious to surface patina.

Higher speeds result in more noticeable thumps and shivers at times, while awkward cambers can tug at the steering wheel. Essentially, though, piloting the Mulsanne is a delight – albeit not a particularly sporting one.

THE P85D FEELS MOST AT HOME IN SPRIGHTLY SIX-TENTHS DRIVING The Tesla is also not the most sporting of performance saloons. Even after stepping out of the endearingly portly Bentley, the Model S doesn’t feel nimble. Swing it into a bend and, while it stays flatter and much more neutral through your chosen line than the Mulsanne, there’s still plenty of body roll, while the steering lacks the feedback you get in the Bentley’s light but precise and delightfully oily-feeling hydraulic rack.

Ultimately, for all its extraordinary accelerative potential, the P85D is most at home in sprightly six-tenths driving, where it feels cohesive, predictable and satisfying despite its hefty bulk and shortage of feedback through the controls.

Predictably, the Tesla doesn’t ride with the same high-calibre waft as the Bentley, but it’s not at all bad. Our car is fitted with £2100 worth of air

suspension, which, over Hampshire’s undulating, pony-lined roads, allows quite a bit of body float but also keep things neat over all but the occasionally thumping mid-corner rut – which isn’t bad for a car on (also optional) 21in wheels.

The next destination is Portsmouth. It’ll be a quick 20-mile strop in the Bentley, at the cost of a few litres of petrol, but the Tesla is showing only 80 miles’ range remaining, and I still have to get 70 miles back up the M3 after that. Not to mention that if I do get home and plug the car into my standard domestic socket, it will take around 30 hours or more to fully charge from flat.

This is not the car’s fault. It was showing 160 miles’ range when I left home for the New Forest and was then subjected to hours of the kind of stop-start driving that’s about as draining for an electric car’s batteries as it can get.

No problem. A quick glance at Google Maps on the Tesla’s spectacular 17.0in screen shows that Farnham Council has a rapid charger. Sure enough, we roll up to the charge point, which is provided by Scottish and Southern Energy. None of the four different charge point cards I have work.

A confused phone call later and I’m paying £20 to sign up to ChargePoint Genie before downloading its app, through which you must pay in advance.

And it’s £4 for the first 15 minutes and 25p per minute thereafter – regardless of whether you want 50kWh extra-fast-charging, which would deliver a full charge for the Tesla in roughly 90 minutes, or normal 43kWh fast-charging, which would take three and a half hours and is the only one of two plugs that we can get to function.

With no other options, we plug the Tesla in and wander off for an hour to have lunch, which, thanks to SSE’s extortionate pricing, costs less than the £20 of electricity the car sucks up (additional to the £20 joining fee). Still, it boosts the range to a reasonable 170 miles.

Thankfully, Tesla owners will have a home fastcharger that means they’ll rarely get caught short, and they’ll most likely know the locations of the increasingly widespread Tesla super-chargers, which I have already used and know to be free and as straightforward to operate as sticking in a plug.

So yes, electric power is still limiting, and there is a moment when being able to fill up the Mulsanne at a petrol station seems like the biggest luxury of all – although it’s hardly one exclusive to Bentley. But even with our day’s charging woes, it’s clear that electric cars and charging infrastructure are improving at a rate that might just make range anxiety a thing of the past sooner rather than later.

So at the end of day, as we watch crowds of people flock to the Bentley, before looking in a puzzled way at the Tesla and then wandering off, there is an incurably attention-seeking part of me that would rather roll home in pomp and circumstance with the Mulsanne. It’s a wonderful overindulgence of a car.

But there’s a bigger part of me that’s still in raptures over the P85D. Maybe the novelty factor of electric power is amplifying the Tesla’s appeal, but to me it feels vividly cutting edge, like the lightsaber of the automotive world. And while the hand-crafted weaponry of the Bentley is quite intoxicating, nothing is as cool as a lightsaber. L

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AAAAB £79,900 (after £5k grant) 3.1sec 155mph (limited) na 0g/km 2106kg

Two electric motors, 85kWh battery pack One front, one rear, Installation transverse, 4WD 682bhp Power 687lb ft Torque 324bhp per tonne Power to weight na Specific output Compression ratio na Single-speed, direct drive Gearbox Engine

Vast 17.0in screen dominates the Tesla’s dash

Mulsanne is by far the bigger crowd-pleaser

Bentley Mulsanne Speed AAAAC £252,000 4.8sec 190mph 19.3mpg (combined) 342g/km 2685kg V8, 6752cc, twin-turbo, petrol Front, longitudinal, RWD 530bhp at 4200rpm 811lb ft at 1750rpm 197bhp per tonne 78bhp per litre 8.9:1 8-spd automatic

Length Width Height Wheelbase Fuel tank Range Boot

4970mm 2187mm 1435mm 2960mm na 305 miles 1795 litres

5575mm 1926mm 1521mm 3266mm 96 litres 408 miles 443 litres

Front suspension

Double wishbones, adaptive air suspension, anti-roll bar Multi-link, adaptive air suspension, anti-roll bar 355mm ventilated discs (f), 365mm ventilated discs (r) 8.5Jx21in (f), 9Jx21in (r) 245/35 ZR21 (f), 265/35 ZR21 (r), Michelin Pilot Sport

Double wishbones, adaptive air suspension, anti-roll bar Multi-link, adaptive air suspension 400mm ventilated discs (f), 370mm ventilated discs (r) 9.5Jx21in (f), 10.5Jx21in (r) 265/40 ZR21 (f), 265/40 ZR21 (r) Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT

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HAUNTING HIGH & LOW

Rolls-Royce’s reputation for quality was defined by the original Silver Ghost and enhanced by that car’s success on the gruelling 1907 Scottish Reliability Trials.

Hilton Holloway retraces the route in the latest Ghost

roads Scotland’s a stiff d te n e s pre in 1907 challenge

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n 1907 Autocar magazine was only 12 years old and the car industry in the UK hardly any older. In July of that year the magazine was a first-hand witness to an event that helped to shape Rolls-Royce’s early reputation for engineering excellence.

Rolls-Royce entered the Scottish Reliability Trials to prove, over four inclement days, that the level of detail that went into its cars made them superior to rivals’ designs, by providing quiet and reliable motoring even in the most challenging of conditions. The event took place on some of Scotland’s most demanding roads. Today, 108 years on, we’ve come back to drive surviving parts of the route, albeit on far better roads and in an unimaginably more advanced car in the shape of the latest Rolls-Royce Ghost.

The motoring scene back then was in its infancy, but progress was rapid.

Even so, much of the industry had grown out of motorcycle and bicycle manufacturing, and the crude and unreliable cars aged quickly.

Which is where Henry Royce came in. Perhaps it was his background in the precision of electrical engineering – and not in the blacksmithery of early cars – that pushed him towards building cars of a much higher standard. He became known later for his obsessive – and health-damaging – perfectionism.

Royce built his first car in 1904, and his meeting with businessman Charles Rolls in the same year is well known. Rolls was selling cars from his showroom in west London and agreed to buy what Royce made. It

was a common way for a fledgling car maker to break into the market.

By 1906 Royce had already completed his 40/50hp six-cylinder running gear at his Manchester facility, and the 12th chassis produced was given an open body by an outside coachbuilder.

Claude Johnson, Rolls-Royce’s managing director, took what he had dubbed ‘the Silver Ghost’ down to London for publicity purposes.

Autocar’s edition of 20 April 1907 praised the car’s silence and smoothness: “The running of this car at slow speeds is the smoothest thing we have ever experienced.”

As car makers fought for recognition and proof of the abilities of their vehicles, reliability trials and hillclimbs – both serious tests of early cars – became important. So Johnson and Rolls entered the Silver Ghost in the Scottish Reliability Trials, a 750-mile, four-day competition.

Starting and finishing in Glasgow, the route stretched as far as Aberdeen, Inverness and Pitlochry.

In June the Silver Ghost, registration AX201, headed to Scotland from London with Charles Rolls at the wheel, accompanied

by Autocar’s Harry Swindley, who would report from four different vehicles during the event.

The second day of the trial ran from Perth to Aberdeen, and Autocar’s correspondent took a seat in a 14-16hp Argyll in fierce conditions that turned the road into “a sea of mud”. The Argyll had to wait its turn at climbing the ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ hillclimb section of what’s now known as the Old Military Road

(A93) through the Cairngorms and Glenshee. “All through the long wait that preceded our turn, the rain poured down upon us, getting worse and worse until the road literally swam with water,” wrote Swindley.

It was here that Autocar’s own cameraman photographed an Argyll taking part in the event cresting one of the most challenging sections.

Standing close to the point at which that picture was taken 108 years later, having driven there in the 2015 Ghost, it is possible still to make out what must have been stretches of the old track taken by cars on the trials.

Today’s road is fast and sweeping, and covering the ground in a modern Ghost is effortless. It is probably more stressful trying to stay within the speed limit, while the long stretches of uphill road are barely noticeable.

Intriguingly, it seems Royce’s perfectionism extended beyond mechanical excellence. When Autocar’s reporter jumped into the Silver Ghost on the fourth day of the trials, from Inverness to Pitlochry, he immediately commented on the attention to passenger detail.

“On Thursday we started on a south-westerly course with Johnson at the wheel, comfortably ensconced in that luxurious back seat, snugly protected by an ingenious apron, which in the case of bad weather prevented the wet dripping on one’s lower extremities – a fault which is common to all rugs and aprons.”

Under the rules of the event, the highest possible number of marks was 1000, with a maximum of 750 for reliability. Marks were deducted for every minute or part-minute

Much of the 1907 route has gone, but the views remain spectacular

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The Ghost’s progress on the A93 is effortless and, of course, reliable

“involuntarily at rest except for tyre troubles”. Deductions were made for “taking too long for a stage, every passenger shed or any vehicle assisted, adding fuel and water after morning start, inefficiency of brakes or failure to stop and restart car as required at special surprise tests”.

At the end of the 750-mile event, 14 of the 104 cars in the trials had retired and the results table read: “40-50hp Rolls-Royce, entered by Rolls-Royce Ltd, 14-15 Conduit Street, driven by Mr Claude Johnson, 976 marks.”

The Silver Ghost had one ‘fault’ over the whole of the strenuous run: a petrol tap was seemingly shaken loose. It closed and cut the fuel off.

Although Royce’s car won the gold medal in its class (for chassis and tyres costing over £800), the overall points total was beaten by an Ariel Simplex, which scored 995.4 marks in the £500-£600 class.

Johnson didn’t stop there. He decided to attempt the record for non-stop motoring, which stood at 7098 miles. With an observer from the Royal Automobile Club, the Ghost

was run continuously for two weeks, reaching 15,000 miles on 8 August.

Royce gave the car’s mechanicals to the RAC for inspection. Seven items “in judgement of expert members [were] all that is required to render it equal to new”. The RAC announced that the result was “more than extraordinary” and congratulated Royce on his “triumph of engineering construction”.

Royce had proved his point. His drive to build the highest-quality motor car had been validated by the RAC and his company was building a reputation that still underpins its products today.

While we were on the Old Military Road in the modern Ghost, we were reminded in spectacular fashion that Royce’s engineering genius had, just seven years later, been directed to building aero engines. We were overflown in quick succession by both a Tornado and a Typhoon – both powered by Rolls-Royce-originated jet engines – in a reminder of how the company had established itself on these roads 107 years before. L 9 SEPTEMBER 2015 AUTOCAR.CO.UK 47

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KEEPING THE PAST ALIVE

One firm is keeping British classics alive by using original tooling and traditional skills. Steve Cropley takes a closer look PHOTOGRAPHY LUC LACEY

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f it wasn’t for BMH, the Oxfordshire-based maker of replacement bodies for British cars of a certain age, it’s probable that thousands of otherwise healthy classics would by now have returned to the earth as red oxide. Either that, or they’d have been consigned to the crusher as a result of structural incapacity, to begin a new life as soup cans or fencing wire.

When British Motor Heritage was born as part of British Leyland back in 1975, rustproofing in cars was regarded as an unnecessary luxury.

Only expensive cars were built to last.

British car owners expected their cars’ sills to bubble extravagantly after five years, and after 15 many an owner would be treated to views of the road through the footwells.

Although it was the nation’s largest car maker, BL at the time was beset by already terminal problems with engineering development and manufacturing quality. It was building some of the least durable cars on the road – yet these days you see a surprising number of old Minis, MG Bs, Spridgets and Triumphs still driving happily about. This is partly

because the cars are enjoyable to own and drive, so owners look after them, but mainly because crucial replacement body bits, made off original tools, are affordable and easily available through BMH. At first, BMH’s role was to meet a growing demand for early pattern parts; the original Mini, MG B and the rest were still in production. It functioned happily enough into the 1990s, supplying more than 2000 MG B bodies for the RV8 project in the mid-1990s. “It was a monument to BL’s inefficiency that the tooling was still available,” says current MD and owner John Yea. “Most companies would have scrapped it long ago.”

The business passed into the hands of BMW in 1994 with its £800 million acquisition of Rover Group, but when the Germans decided in 2000 that their bold British exploit was never going to work, BMH was acquired by a team steered by Yea, a former Rover finance man, initially with several partners.

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Δ citizens.” Yea thought the business had potential, although it was saddled with quite a lot of slow-moving stock stored in two distribution centres when only one was needed. “It was clear the company’s prospects would be better if it was controlled and owned by one person,” Yea says.

Yea soon cleared the slow stock and started building on the company’s core strength as a supplier of panels to the classic car market. It had ready access to original tooling for more than 40 different UK-built models, and its people had unique metalfinishing skills. He soon added a lucrative line: that most vulnerable of all Jaguar E-Type components, the huge, rear-opening bonnet.

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“although the ex-BL tooling is actually of a high quality. The Jaguar E-Type stuff isn’t so good – among the worst, actually. It won’t finish the complex bonnet curvature at the front, so we have to do that by hand.

But E-Type demand is quite steady.

We’ll make a batch of 10 next month.”

Apart from the evergreen Mini, a “younger product” that keeps on giving, Yea acknowledges that demand for the original panels BMH started making in 1975 is in slow but noticeable decline. Replacement MG B shells, properly protected, last a lifetime. BMH has compensated by expanding its export markets, by planning the manufacture of panels for upmarket British marques not yet catered for (“We have big aspirations, but I can’t say more”) and establishing a thriving web-based accessories business called Motoring Classics.

Yea’s skunkworks project is this A40 Farina classic racer

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A Mini taster at BMH

I TOOK A short drive in a 1970 Mini and one fact instantly dawned: the car is unique, and better at what small cars do than any modern. The only steering system more direct is a pair of handlebars.

The parking spaces into which you can fit a Mini are microscopic. The response of the A-series engine, unfettered by clean-air paraphernalia, is razor-sharp, but the jittery ride and the whine of the gears-and-diff-in-sump must have set owners dreaming of Ford Cortinas. Never again will there be a car like the Issigonis Mini. Today’s regulations would not allow it. We must keep them going. SC

Panels are made from original tools and finished by hand

E-Type bonnet has become an important BMH product line Staff possess rare technical skills; it’s physical and noisy work These days, BMH can sell you any steel body part for an MG B roadster, GT or Midget. It also makes original Mini doors and bootlids, full Mini bodyshells from the 1969-1970 model onwards (including Clubman) and Minivan rear doors. Triumph lovers can get most of what they need for a TR6, many key pieces for a Stag or Spitfire and several high-demand items for a TR7.

“Everything is batch-built,” says Yea, “and demand is quite reliable, so production planning isn’t difficult.

We expect to do runs of 10 complete MG B shells and 30 Mini shells twice a year.”

BMH’s headquarters at Whitney is a standard-looking industrial unit in a well-concealed industrial estate, but take the two-minute walk out back to the manufacturing area and you’re rapidly transported back

several decades, a fact from which Yea does not attempt to shrink. The company’s purpose, he reminds you, is to use original tooling, original build processes and material as near as you can get to the original steel to make body parts as close as possible to the originals. It’s top-quality steel, though, and parts get Metacoat corrosion-proofing so they’re ready to fit, prepare and paint.

BMH employs about 40 people, many of whom are experts in body techniques that get rarer as the weeks go by. Hand manufacture is the watchword; an MG B bonnet consists of five major pieces that take a good two hours to fit and finish.

(On a modern car like a BMW Z4, Yea points out, the same piece is far easier to make.) Period tools abound. One prize exhibit is a purpose-built multiwelding machine, dating right back

BMH boss John Yea (on right) tells Cropley: “I feel huge pride”

to the beginning of Mini production in 1959, that joins early Mini window surrounds to door inner panels in a rolling series of spot welds.

For 15 minutes, we watch a Mini body being created from pressed components to a single load-bearing steel structure, an operation conducted by two strong men who have clearly done it many times before. It involves lots of clamping, judicious leverage, trial fitting, discussion and some judicious applications of brute force, delivered via what the pair describe as “Dave’s educated hammer”. In full swing, Dave and his pal can do three or four Minis in a day. When I talk to the pair an hour later, they’ve just finished fitting another roof to another car.

“It went on really well,” says Dave with satisfaction. “We hardly had to use the hammer at all.”

“We warn visitors not to expect Lexus panel gaps,” says Yea, “and if they’re expecting bodyshell construction to be a delicate process, we advise them to look away now.

It’s hard, physical work for the people who do it, and when they go home, they know they’ve done a decent day’s work.”

But it’s important – and satisfying.

BMH isn’t the kind of firm that creates many headlines, but talk to the people who work there and you’ll soon discover their pride in the place, on two counts. They’re well aware that their skills are rare, and that they’re helping to keep some important cars on the road.

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ROAD TEST

Skoda Superb

No 5233

Skoda plots a bigger slice of the pie for its likeably huge wagon MODEL TESTED 2.0 TDI 150 SE Estate l Price £23,290 l Power 148bhp l Torque 251lb ft l 0-60mph 8.8sec l 30-70mph in fourth 12.1sec l Fuel economy 47.2mpg l CO2 emissions 106g/km l 70-0mph 47.2m

O

f all the Volkswagen Group oddballs nurtured under the Skoda badge, the Superb surely ranks as one of the most intriguing. Originally a product of VW’s mania for economies of scale (the manufacturer having already produced a lengthened version of the Passat for China), Skoda’s modern flagship saloon landed in 2001, offering vast rear leg room for not a lot of money. Despite being a resolutely old-fashioned four-door (the engines went in longways and plans for an estate were dropped), it struck a chord.

The second-generation Superb,

PHOTOGRAPHY LUC LACEY

WE LIKE Huge practicality for the money ■ Amiable ride and handling ■ Rear leg room is exceptional

l These bi-xenon headlights are a £1295 option with SE trim. They have adaptive cornering functionality, but adaptive high-beam masking costs another £950.

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l Main radiator grille is wider and extends lower towards the ground than the previous Superb’s did. The chunkier, glossy-looking vertical grille bars are an attractive detail.

l Wheel sizes start at 16in on S trim and go up to an optional 19in rim with Laurin & Klement.

These 17in Stratos designs are a no-cost option on SE cars.

l Foglights are diagonally shaped, Skoda says, in order to look as though they’re eating into the bumper above. They provide a static cornering function, too.

launched in 2008, went much farther.

Along with a capacious wagon, the regular model received what Skoda dubbed the ‘Twindoor’, a tailgate that could be opened as either a saloonstyle boot or a full liftback, making it as prodigious a handler of luggage as it was knees and feet. Accolades followed, bolstered by the decision to add an extensive list of optional extras to the Superb’s already generous kit list in higher trim levels.

Skoda has cemented this approach with the latest version. Where previously it was recognisable as a flagship for its incontrovertible size, the new, sharper-suited Superb

Original Superb saloon arrived in 2001 is intended to fill out the role on style, too. Breathing space has been made as an upshot of the Passat’s repositioning upmarket, so the opportunity is being taken for a nudge northwards of Skoda buyers’

expectations as it prepares the ground for the arrival of a seven-seat SUV. That’s for next year, though. For now, the Superb looms large in our test crosshairs, specifically in estate format, which now offers a maximum boot volume of almost 2000 litres, making the wagon variants of everything from a BMW 5 Series to a Ford Mondeo look meagre. It’s also lighter than its predecessor and up to 30% more fuel efficient. Both hatchback and estate start at less than £20k, a price calculated to have Ford and Vauxhall staring nervously over their shoulder. Our test car is a 148bhp 2.0 TDI in mid-range SE spec.

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING AAAAC The modular potential of VW’s MQB platform continues to surprise us. The Golf’s platform has been deployed beneath the new Superb, and although the finished Skoda may be only 23mm longer than its predecessor, its wheelbase has sprouted by a far more considerable 80mm. Much of the additional length appears to have been concentrated in the voluminous boot, where Skoda claims the largest luggage ◊

WE DON’T LIKE Nowhere to store load bay cover ■ Real-world economy not stellar ■ Loss of twin rear door

● Sharp shoulder line adds definition to the Superb’s bodywork and breaks up its visual mass. It runs full circle around the car, starting either side of the headlights.

● Rear parking sensors are standard and, on such a big car, welcome. A reversing camera would be even more helpful. You can have one — for £300 extra.

● Raked angle of the D-pillar is more proof that Skoda has balanced space against visual allure in the Superb’s design. Overall, the car looks a long way from boxy.

● Tailgate operation can be motorised — even gesture-controlled by a wave of your foot — if you’re willing to pay extra. There’s no option for a separately opening window, though.

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ON THE INSIDE

● Rubber grips in the base of this cupholder bind onto the bottom of most plastic bottles, allowing you to open a drink with one hand.

● Big armrest cubby is lined and air conditioned and has a slot recess for a tablet PC. More’s the pity, then, that there’s only one USB port — and it’s elsewhere.

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

● Fascia looks smart and uncluttered, albeit a bit plain. Brushed steel inserts can be swapped for what Skoda calls ‘dark aluminium’.

Skoda can be rightly proud of the multimedia features of its new flagship, but getting all of them isn’t cheap. In principle, the car offers its own 4G wireless hotspot, multimedia remote control from a paired tablet or smartphone, a Canton premium audio system and even a TV tuner.

To get access to any of these, though, you first need to order the full-house £1600 Columbus multimedia system. Its 8.0in touchscreen is a good size and makes the navigation system easy to follow.

But laying out £1600 on one extra, only to open up the option of further

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spending, may look indulgent to a long-standing Skoda owner.

SE trim has a Bolero multimedia system with a 6.5in colour screen but no fitted sat-nav. We haven’t tested that system but can report that Skoda’s SmartGate smartphone mirroring option (£100) should work as happily with the standard system as with the optional one. Compatible with Apple and Android-based devices, via Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and MirrorLink, it allows many of the apps on your phone to be relayed directly to the multimedia screen. So this way, the chances are that you don’t need a fitted sat-nav.

∆ compartment in the class, at 660 litres, which is 85 litres more than before with the rear seats up. This is of particular benefit to the hatchback version, which offers an improved 625 litres as recompense to buyers for losing the aforementioned Twindoor boot access.

Ignoring its weight and complicated manufacture, the double-jointed hatchback wasn’t the old Superb’s prettiest feature, and its junking improves the normal hatchback’s appearance significantly. So do overhangs that were easily shrunk in the redesign, thanks to the MQB underpinnings.

The new Superb emerges as a betterproportioned model, helped no end by a lower front end and almost 50mm of additional width. Unlike rear leg room, which is said to remain constant, the greater width does transfer inside, with Skoda claiming additional elbow room for passengers in both front and back rows.

Predictably, again because of the MQB’s cleverness, none of this comes with a weight penalty. Skoda suggests that a saving of 75kg separates the new Superb from the old. A proportional doubling of the high-strength steel content means the car is now 13% stiffer, too.

The suspension has been comprehensively reconfigured.

The Superb’s front MacPherson struts may distinguish it from some upmarket rivals, but Skoda is keen to talk up the advantages of its new multi-link rear axle – another component made lighter than before.

The Superb’s handling response is helped along by the latest version of VW’s XDS+ electronic stability control system, a torque vectoring system that now activates at a lateral acceleration of just 0.15g to subtly brake the inside wheel when cornering. As an alternative to frontwheel drive, the Superb can also again be had with all-wheel drive, its adaptive torque split facilitated by a fifth-generation Haldex clutch.

Power comes from the broadest selection of engines yet offered with the Superb. All are four-pots and all – save the newly developed 277bhp version of the 2.0 TSI that replaces the venerable petrol V6 – are shared with Skodas elsewhere. The 1.4 TSI props up the range, but it’ll be the updated 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre diesels that dominate sales. The 2.0 TDI is available in 148bhp and 187bhp variants, both of which can be had with a dual-clutch automatic gearbox and four-wheel drive. ◊

l Driving position only wants for an extra inch or two of telescopic steering column reach adjustment. The seats are broad and comfortable.

990m

980m

m

0.29

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HOW BIG IS IT?

0 107

79

Kerb weight: 1505kg 2841mm

897mm

6601950 litres

1477mm

m 0m

mm

Typical leg room 790mm

1118mm

4856mm

VISIBILITY

A large glazed area and a widely adjustable driver’s seat make for a good view out in all directions. Rear-view parking camera is optional.

HEADLIGHTS

Optional adaptive bi-xenon headlights, with static cornering foglights as well, were fitted. They were bright and well calibrated for dip level.

WHEEL AND PEDAL ALIGNMENT

Pretty much perfect for pedal placement. Indecent quantities of leg room can make the steering column reach come up short if you’re long-legged.

l There’s huge head and leg room back here. The middle seat is less comfortable than the outers, though, and there are no Isofix mounts for it.

circle: 11.1m Turning

1584mm

Width 1000-1450mm

70mm 70mm 180mm

Height 590-820mm

Length 1170-2030mm

1572mm

1864mm

Centre

l Load bay is long and deep. Front passenger seat folds, but the larger part of the 60/40 split rear seatback is on the driver’s side in right-hand drive.

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ON THE ROAD on back-row leg and head room, to the tune of 50mm in both cases.

In the cargo bay – and never has the term been more accurately applied to a volume-brand estate car – you’ll find significantly more carrying space than those rivals, the Skoda’s advantages measurable in inches rather than millimetres.

The hold is both long and deep. You get up to 820mm of loading height, whereas a Mondeo wagon provides fully 120mm less. As for width, the Superb’s load bay could actually be more generous, but removing the covers on the two side cubbies just inside the main aperture would allow you easily to accommodate a couple of sets of golf clubs crossways.

But here’s the catch: all that space could have been made even more usable. On SE cars, items such as cargo nets, a cabin/load bay partition, a variable-height floor, a powered tailgate and even remote seatback release latches at the boot opening are all optional extras. The

INTERIOR AAAAB Credit must be given to Skoda for making the Superb’s cabin a more upmarket, well-equipped and materially pleasing place in which to travel, but your primary motivator for buying the car is still likely to be space. In either hatchback or estate bodystyles, this is a big family car in the truest sense. The previous version had celebrated quantities of leg room and boot space, but this one emphatically completes the picture.

Although previous Superbs have been long but disproportionately narrow cars, our tape measure confirms the presence here of a wider interior across the second row of seats than either a Mondeo or a Passat – both rivals deserving recommendation as relatively spacious models. Better still, the Superb wipes the floor with the Ford

TRACK NOTES

● The big jump into T7 upsets the Superb dynamically, but it’s controlled enough to prevent it from painfully bottoming out.

It is telling that the occasional choppiness experienced on the road was seldom a problem on Millbrook’s smooth asphalt. On both the flat outer handling circuit and hill route, the Superb proved well mannered, predictable and not unduly inhibited by its scale and forgiving chassis. Weight transfer and body roll are noticeable, of course, but never in the sense of being poorly managed.

The steering’s rate of response is appropriate, although it’s possibly slightly more engaging with the added heft of the car’s Sport mode. It manages to be decently communicative, too — certainly enough to note the slightly inorganic effect of the XDS+ system as it intercedes to pull you around a corner.

Beyond the limit of the software and the generous mechanical grip, there is understeer, but it’s easily tamed or else tidied up by the stability control (which, unlike the traction control, will not switch off) if you choose not to lift.

folding second-row seatbacks are split 40/60 – the wrong way around, we’d argue, for optimal carrying practicality in a right-hand-drive car – and a 40/20/40 split isn’t offered on the options list. There’s also nowhere on board to stow the load bay cover once you’ve removed it.

All of which, for us, takes the edge off the Superb’s practicality score.

Our test car’s load bay had handy carrying hooks near the back of the car, a 12-volt power supply, a batterypowered torch and some clever flexible plastic load bay dividers that velcro to the boot floor – nice touches, but you’d swap all of them for just a couple of items from the preceding list as standard kit.

PERFORMANCE AAAAB For a bigger-than-average, cheaperthan-average, workaday 148bhp family holdall, the Superb Estate

performs very stoutly indeed. It recorded a sub-9.0sec sprint to 60mph on our timing gear, which is what you’d expect of, say, a Jaguar XE or Mercedes-Benz C-Class with a 25% power advantage. It’s certainly well above and beyond your expectations for the humble frontdriven bargain Czech.

More important for a big loadhauler, the Superb proved flexible, taking 12.1sec to haul itself from 30-70mph in fourth gear, whereas the like-for-like Mondeo wagon we performance tested late last year needed almost 14 seconds.

All of which comes as a bonus in the Superb, a car that’s fairly and squarely configured to be refined, unobstructive and easy to use. The 2.0-litre diesel engine is very seldom noisy, pulls cleanly from as little as 1200rpm and overcomes its initial turbo-lag-related hesitancy smartly before 1600rpm is past. From there on up, the engine’s 251lb ft of torque feels more than enough to handle

● You’ll feel the XDS+ system lending a hand on the fast stuff between T5 and T6.

T2

T4 T3

T6

T1

● Weight shifts abruptly with the quick direction change through T1 but doesn’t result in any drama at the contact patches.

T7 T5

FINISH

START

ACCELERATION 18deg C, dry Skoda Superb 2.0 TDI 150 SE Estate Standing quarter mile 16.9sec at 83.0mph, standing km 30.7sec at 107.6mph, 30-70mph 8.2sec, 30-70mph in fourth 12.1sec 30mph 40mph

50mph

3.3s 4.6s

60mph

70mph

8.8s

6.6s

0

80mph

11.5s

90mph

15.4s

100mph

10s

110mph

24.9s

19.7s

33.5s

20s

30s

Ford Mondeo Titanium 2.0 TDCi 150 Estate (10deg C, damp) Standing quarter mile 17.7sec at 80.6mph, standing km 32.0sec at 103.5mph, 30-70mph 9.4sec, 30-70mph in fourth 13.8sec 30mph

3.6s

40mph

50mph

5.1s

7.4s

0

60mph

10.0s

70mph

80mph

13.0s

90mph

17.1s

10s

22.2s

100mph

110mph

28.8s

20s

39.9s 30s

BRAKING 60-0mph: 2.81sec 30mph-0

50mph-0

8.8m 0

70mph-0

24.0m 10m

10.5m 30mph-0

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47.2m

20m

30m

29.0m 50mph-0

40m

50m

57.0m 70mph-0

Superb copes admirably with UK roads, thanks to a supple ride and ample grip

It rides with the kind of luid, big-boned lounce that makes a lot of miles pass with little suffering a fully laden cabin, a heavy load or a biggish trailer in the shorter intermediate gears. The engine revs cleanly to 4500rpm before it starts to run out of puff, and it feels smooth and well isolated at all times.

There’s a little bit of notchiness in the car’s manual gearchange, but not enough to make the shift lever baulk. Like the clutch pedal, the shift quality itself is light and the action quite short. The brake pedal action is also well tuned, with good initial response transforming into progressive retardation without the need for too much pedal pressure.

Although estates can struggle to match saloons for cabin refinement, the Superb doesn’t, suppressing road roar and chassis noise well on the 17in wheels of our test example.

RIDE AND HANDLING AAAAC The previous Superb was a congenial old beast. With its people-carrying duties in mind, Skoda tuned the model to be soft and serene under most conditions. Unsurprisingly, its replacement is set up with broadly

the same character in mind. On the standard passive suspension, it’s easily pliant enough to ride with the kind of fluid, big-boned flounce that makes a lot of miles pass with little suffering. The comfort levels are possibly not superlative – the muffled rolling refinement of a Mondeo certainly rivals it for general contentment – but it’s utterly convivial nonetheless.

Go about your business a little quicker and the qualities we equate with most MQB-based models come readily to the fore. Although the weight difference between old and new is probably fairly negligible, the stiffer new Superb does feel that bit keener to take direction from its driver. Its proportions remain a factor in your reckoning, as does the continued nose-heaviness of such a long car, but it reacts to inputs consistently, grips keenly and, despite its suppleness, conveys enough feedback to make you well aware of its broad limits.

Consequently, as before, the Superb copes with most British road surfaces admirably well. Of all those we tried it on, only particularly challenging stretches of aged

B-road asked questions of the car’s comfort-orientated springiness, the occasional sudden elevation change – or a series of them – exposing the amiable dampers’ ultimate lack of restraint in a meandering reluctance to settle. But because this effect requires an indelicate amount of speed to become disagreeable, it won’t trouble most buyers.

Certainly, it did nothing to dial back our conviction that, among large mainstream cars, the Superb’s fitness for purpose is irrefutable.

BUYING AND OWNING AAAAB Three facts make it tough to argue for anything but a perfect score in this section: the Superb offers more space than almost every other car of its type, costs less than almost all of its direct rivals and retains its value very strongly indeed.

In as-tested spec, it is predicted by our market experts to retain more than 50% of its value over three years and 36,000 miles – good enough to shame a 3 Series or a C-Class, never mind a Passat or a Mondeo.

That’ll have a lot to do with a clever marketing tactic from Skoda: a special trim specifically intended to bolster the Superb’s appeal for fleet users. SE Business is priced at the same level as SE but includes items of specification such as privacy glass, Alcantara upholstery, sat-nav and enhanced phone functionality. It will be available exclusively through fleet channels.

Otherwise, the line-up is now sufficiently broad to start at below £19k in entry-level S trim and finish north of £35k for the priciest wagon in Lauren & Klement format.

Nevertheless, we’re knocking half a star off the score here for two reasons: first, because the number of optional features we’d be obliged to take on a mid-spec car is a little high, and second, because the Superb’s fuel economy could be better. The 47.2mpg our True MPG testers recorded is about 15% adrift of the mark set by the car’s like-for-like rivals. A Greenline version of the model, twinned exclusively with the 1.6 TDI, will offer sub-100g/km CO2 efficiency and claims 76.4mpg combined, but it won’t go on sale in the UK until later in the year. ◊

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DATA LOG SKODA SUPERB 2.0 TDI 150 SE ESTATE On-the-road price Price as tested Value after 3yrs/36k miles Contract hire pcm Cost per mile Insurance/typical quote

£23,290 £30,320 £11,700 na na 18E/£562

TECHNICAL LAYOUT

MQB platform saves up to 75kg for the new Superb, model for model — despite an 80mm increase in wheelbase and a 28mm growth in overall length. Transverse engines drive the front wheels, with six or seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearboxes and fifth-generation Haldex clutch-based four-wheel drive offered as options. Suspension is all-independent.

EQUIPMENT CHECKLIST n n n n n n NCO £1150 £1295 £1600 £400 £535 £120

TRANSMISSIONS

6-spd manual n 6-spd dual-clutch automatic £1400 (2.0 TDI 150 and 190 only; standard with 2.0 TSI. 7-spd dual-clutch auto optional on 1.4 TSI, 1.6 TDI)

ECONOMY TEST (TRUE MPG) CLAIMED

Urban Extra-urban Average Urban Extra-urban Combined

40.4mpg 54.1mpg 47.2mpg 58.9mpg 76.4mpg 68.9mpg

Tank size Test range

66 litres 685 miles

ACCELERATION MPH 0-30 0-40 0-50 0-60 0-70 0-80 0-90 0-100 0-110 0-120 0-130 0-140 0-150 0-160

TIME (sec) 3.3 4.6 6.6 8.8 11.5 15.4 19.7 24.9 33.5 -

Type Made of Bore/stroke Compression ratio Valve gear Power Torque Red line Power to weight Torque to weight Specific output

Front, transverse, front-wheel drive 4 cyls in line, 1968cc, diesel Iron block, aluminium head 81.0mm/95.5mm 16.2:1 4 per cyl 148bhp at 3500-4000rpm 251lb ft at 1750-3000rpm 5000rpm 98bhp per tonne 167lb ft per tonne 75bhp per litre

SUSPENSION

Front MacPherson struts, coil springs, anti-roll bar Rear Multi-link, coil springs, anti-roll bar

STEERING

CHASSIS & BODY

350

251lb ft at 1750-3000rpm

300

300

250

250

200

200

148bhp at 3500-4000rpm

150

150

100

100

50

0

50

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0

0

6000

BRAKES

Front 312mm ventilated discs Rear 300mm discs Anti-lock Standard, with Brake Assist

CABIN NOISE

ACCELERATION IN GEAR

MAX SPEEDS IN GEAR 28mph 84mph 135mph

MPH 2nd 20-40 2.6 30-50 4.0 40-60 50-70 60-80 70-90 80-100 90-110 100-120 110-130 120-140 130-150 140-160 -

3rd 4th 4.4 9.7 3.8 6.1 4.1 5.7 4.9 6.0 7.3 6.4 7.5 9.5 - 14.8 -

5th 11.7 8.5 8.1 8.6 9.2 10.4 12.8 -

6th 21.0 13.4 11.2 11.0 12.1 13.3 -

Construction Weight/as tested Drag coefficient Wheels Tyres

350

Type Electro-mechanical, rack and pinion Turns lock to lock 2.8 Turning circle 11.1m

THE SMALL PRINT Power-to-weight and torque-to-weight figures are calculated using manufacturer’s claimed kerb weight. © 2015, Haymarket Media Group Ltd. Test results may not be reproduced without editor’s written permission. For information on the Superb, contact Skoda Customer Services, Delaware Drive, Blakelands, Milton Keynes MK14 5AN (03330 037504, skoda.co.uk). Cost-per-mile figures calculated over three years/36,000 miles, including depreciation and maintenance but not insurance; Lex Autolease (0800 389 3690). Insurance quote covers 35-year-old professional male with clean licence and full no-claims bonus living in Swindon; quote from Liverpool Victoria (0800 066 5161, lv.com).

Contract hire figure based on a three-year lease/36,000-mile contract including maintenance; Wessex Fleet Solutions (01722 322888).

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POWER & TORQUE

Torque (lb ft)

FROM £19,840 £21,240 £22,390 £23,290 £28,220 £28,520 £32,205

Installation

Idle 46dB Max rpm in 3rd gear 73dB 30mph 62dB 50mph 64dB 70mph 69dB

TRANSMISSION

Type 6-spd manual Ratios/mph per 1000rpm 1st 3.77/5.6 2nd 1.96/10.8 3rd 1.26/16.9 4th 0.87/24.4 5th 0.86/31.2 6th 0.72/37.2 Final drive ratio 3.68 (1st-4th), 2.92 (5th, 6th and reverse)

SAFETY

ABS, ESC, XDS+, EBD, Brake Assist Euro NCAP crash rating 5 stars (2.0 TDI hatch) Adult occupant 86%, child occupant 86%, pedestrian 71%, safety assist 76%

EMISSIONS & TAX

CO2 emissions Tax at 20/40% pcm

2

3

4

5

6

54mph 122mph 135mph*

5000rpm 5000rpm 3629rpm *claimed

RPM in 6th at 70/80mph = 1882/2151

ROADTEST

106g/km £74/£148

RESIDUALS 30

5000rpm 5000rpm 4327rpm

1

Steel monocoque 1505kg/na 0.29 7Jx17in 215/55 R17, Continental ContiPremium Contact 5 Spacesaver

Spare

25

Volkswagen Passat Estate Skoda Superb Estate

20 Value (£1000s)

ENGINE

RANGE AT A GLANCE

ENGINES POWER 1.4 TSI S 123bhp 1.6 TDI S 118bhp 1.4 TSI SE 148bhp 2.0 TDI SE 148bhp 2.0 TSI SE L Exec 217bhp 2.0 TDI SE L Exec 187bhp 2.0 TSI 4x4 SE L Exec 276bhp

66 litres

Power output (bhp)

Front, side, curtain, knee airbags Adaptive cruise control Bolero radio with 6.5in multimedia system, DAB radio Cornering front foglights Ice scraper in fuel filler cap Isofix child seat anchorages (outer rear seats only) 17in Stratos alloy wheels Alcantara/leather upholstery Adaptive bi-xenon headlights Columbus multimedia system with 8.0in touchscreen and sat-nav Powered bootlid Metallic paint, Petrol Blue Retractable parcel shelf Options in bold fitted to test car n = Standard na = not available NCO = no-cost option

15 10

Ford Mondeo Estate

5 0 New

1 year

2 years

3 years

4 years

l Cheapest 2.0 diesel Superb Estate is expected to have the strongest residuals; Passat and Mondeo beaten.

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ROAD TEST

No 5233

Skoda Superb 2.0 TDI Estate

TESTERS’ NOTES

AUTOCAR VERDICT AAAAB

A remarkably practical, rounded and well-priced wagon with few flaws

MATT SAUNDERS The Superb now comes with two umbrellas, one concealed in each front door. Better still, the recesses for them are waterproof and drain to the exterior. Now that’s clever.

NIC CACKETT We’ve tried the adaptive suspension, too. The comfort deepens, but so does the occasional lackadaisical attitude to body control.

There’s Sport mode, of course, but never much of an impulse to select it.

SPEC ADVICE

T

he Skoda Superb is on its way to becoming one of the very best family cars in the world. This is no longer a stretched, slightly awkward-looking, cheap family holdall. It’s now hugely spacious in several dimensions, quietly handsome and modern-feeling, and as well endowed with cabin technology as almost anything on the market. It’s still outstanding value, too.

Greater experience with making big estates will allow Skoda, we’d imagine, to improve the Superb even further by perfecting its standard equipment level and flexibility of its folding seats.

But it needn’t worry about the harder yards – about making the car refined, muscular, spacious or hard-wearing enough to fit easily into family life – because on those fronts the car is already great.

Great enough, in fact, to top our chart for full-size, volume-branded estate cars. If you want lots of space in a mature, pragmatic and well-priced package, look no further.

TOP5

MAKE Model Price Power Torque 0-60mph Top speed (claimed) Fuel economy (combined) Kerb weight (claimed) CO2/tax band

Verdicts on every new car, p72

SE Business trim is a no-brainer for company car drivers. Add metallic paint (£535), bi-xenon headlights (£1295), a reversing camera (£300), a partition net screen (£150), a folding front passenger seat (£100) and remote backrest releases (£90).

JOBS FOR THE FACELIFT

l Include some of the practicality-bolstering options as standard on mid-spec estates. l Flip the split folding rear seatbacks around for right-hand-drive cars. l Keep adding those pragmatic ‘simply clever’ features, too.

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

SKODA Superb 2.0 TDI 150 SE Estate £23,290 148bhp at 3500-4000rpm 251lb ft at 1750-3000rpm 8.8sec 135mph 68.9mpg 1505kg 109g/km, 19%

FORD Mondeo 2.0 TDCI T’um Estate £25,045 148bhp at 3500rpm 258lb ft at 2000rpm 10.0sec 130mph 62.8mpg 1597kg 112g/km, 20%

VOLKSWAGEN Passat 2.0 TDI SE Estate £26,135 148bhp at 3500-4000rpm 251lb ft at 1750-3000rpm 8.9sec (claimed, to 62mph) 135mph 68.9mpg 1505kg 107g/km, 19%

MAZDA 6 2.2 SE-L Nav Estate £24,795 148bhp at 4500rpm 280lb ft at 2000rpm 9.2sec (claimed, to 62mph) 130mph 64.2mpg 1604kg 110g/km, 20%

VAUXHALL Insignia 2.0 CDTi Tech Line ST £24,284 168bhp at 4000rpm 295lb ft at 1750rpm 9.4sec (claimed, to 62mph) 137mph 62.8mpg 1658kg 119g/km, 19%

Big Skoda now the act to follow.

In most areas that matter, the complete large family car.

More refined than the Superb, but its finesse doesn’t save it from not competing on value.

Classier than ever. Smaller, of course, and doesn’t justify its premium across the board.

Also large and decent to drive, with an energetic motor. Does not make its case emphatically.

Seeing out its days as a decent alternative and looks best as a wagon. Age shows in places.

★★★★B

★★★★B

★★★★C

★★★BC

★★★BC

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Have Porsche and Lexus have made a gaping error? Every time I see an image of a 911 GT3 or GT2 or a Lexus LFA, my mind tells me that the bonnet is not closed, with the air intake vent on the very front.

If I were a lucky owner of one of these incredible cars, I would always be pushing down on the bonnet, every trip, to satisfy my OCD. It’s Porsche’s fault, because Lexus borrowed this ‘gap’ in the market.

J Record via email

TAXING MATTERS

I have noted a number of references of late to the “surprisingly” rapid rise in hybrid and electric vehicle sales often accredited to “the public” finally becoming “educated” to the environmental benefits.

Is it not more to do with businesses understanding the 100% tax write-down benefits? I wonder how many of the sales are to private buyers using their own unsubsidised cash (apart from the £5000 government subsidy).

How many of the company drivers, having been presented with their hybrid/plug-in/electric vehicle, actually do plug it in, or is my suspicion correct and they simply drive it as they did their previous German junior exec diesel milemuncher, with the company accountant gradually noting how much more frequently they have to refuel?

In the real world, few of us can afford

BELT HOLDS ANSWERS

NOT SO SMART

I agree with Malcolm Jennings that the ability to put your car into a narrow garage by using a smartphone would be great (Your Views, 29 July). However, many drivers seem to have to make lengthy and painful manoeuvres to get in and out of parking spaces in car parks. I believe that if they were to use a smartphone to do it, the chances of the result not being mayhem would be remote!

John Gaskin Bainton, Driffield

PETROL PRICE IS RIGHT

In response to Richard Seddon’s

New Nissan Z car to be a crossover If they want to do a sporty crossover, fine, but to make it ‘the’ Z would be beyond shameful.

Speedraser

It seems wrong for the Z car to become a crossover, but it seems that the car market, and buyers’ preferences, have changed considerably. catnip

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the cost of a new car, let alone an overpriced hybrid/EV with questionable fuel economy.

Adrian Robertshaw via email

What you’re saying on autocar.co.uk

I would have agreed with you a few years back, but with the BMW X5 M, Jaguar F-Pace and Porsche Macan, I don’t see why the non-premium crowd shouldn’t get a slice of the action. michael knight

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The picture looks like a squashed Juke. That’s fine if they think there is a market, but it’s not a ‘Z’. Won’t they be happy until we all drive these crossovers?

Artill

Petrol-powered Jag XEs are selling well comments (Your Views, 8 July) on your road test of the petrol-powered Jaguar XE, has he not noticed the price difference? Comparing this variant with the 180 diesel, it is more than £5000 cheaper, spec for spec. No wonder Jaguar dealers are surprised by the level of petrol-powered XE orders. That’s four years of ‘road tax’ and more than 22,000 miles’ worth of fuel at 30mpg.

Dave Edmondson via email

Previous X1 had more going for it than the new one, says Patrick

I refer to Tom Robinson’s letter entitled ‘How old is your car?’ (Your Views, 8 July). If you want to know when your car left the factory, I suggest that you have a close look at the bottom fastenings of the front seatbelts. There you find a tag with the date of manufacture. Our Audi A5 was delivered one month after this date and our Toyota Land Cruiser three months after.

J Bosseler Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg

VIVA SHOULD BE A SALOON

I’m sure the new Vauxhall Viva is a good little car, but Vauxhall already has a small hatchback at this price point.

It seems like a missed opportunity; Vauxhall should have launched a small two/four-door saloon to revive the Viva nameplate, as a model such as this would be a popular-selling car and different

Should the Viva have been reborn as a small saloon? Nik says yes

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from all the opposition. Also, in some markets GM produces a saloon version of the Corsa, so there is obviously an international demand for a small saloon.

In some markets, Ford sells a small saloon called Escort, so why has Vauxhall not jumped at the opportunity to produce its own remake of a classic?

Nik Crosthwaite via email We’re sure GM and Vauxhall did their research and decided a conventional city car was the way to go — MB

CROSS ME OFF

The old BMW X1, based on the 3 Series, had an advantage over the equivalent Touring with an additional 1.5in of ground clearance. It also had four-wheel drive, which wasn’t offered in the UK on the Touring at that time.

The X1 had the distinctive look of a four-wheel drive with the associated

school run cachet and ride height, while fitting neatly into the urban size class and heralding the crossover. It even had a meaningfully long bonnet, reflecting BMW pace. Finally, Mercedes-Benz did not offer any competition in the UK by not offering its GLK. The new X1 reviewed recently, while apparently fatter and shorter-bonneted, seems to have lost the ground clearance and might easily be mistaken for a 2 Series Active Tourer or even a 1 Series.

One wonders if the designer drives a Golf Plus, or lost his way when confronted with the Mercedes-Benz GLA and GLC. Patrick Hogan Beaconsfield, Bucks

DIFFERENT STROKES

Damn sure Jim Holder meant to write ‘602cc two-cylinder engine’, when referring back to the Citroën Mehari (neé ‘2CV’) in your 26 August edition.

Andrew J Boulton via email He did indeed, Andrew. Apologies for the error — MB

New Audi A4 Definitive production version of the 3 Series and XE rival assessed

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THE COST OF FUEL

I have just driven from Wrexham to Cambridge via the M6. Before leaving, I refuelled with diesel at Asda in Wrexham, where I was charged 106.9p per litre.

I’m so glad I did, because en route I stopped at Corley services, where I noted with horror that the Shell outlet there was charging 125.9p per litre.

How can this be legal and what can be done to prevent such a crime being permitted? I know it’s accepted that fuel is more expensive at motorway services, but that much more? My local Tesco was charging 108.9p per litre.

Oh yes, at Corley petrol was 1p cheaper than diesel. What a rip-off.

Peter Williams Milton, Cambridge

Honda HR-V Honda is going after Nissan’s Qashqai, but is the new HR-V good enough?

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OURCARS A week in the life of Autocar’s fleet

Ferrari FF

AUDI TT

BMW

ACTIVE TOURER

Stan Papior John Bradshaw

BMW M4

Dan Trent

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FOCUS

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FINAL REPORT Over 5000 miles, did our second-hand FF manage to deliver the full Ferrari experience? And was its four-wheel drive, four-seat format a bonus or hindrance?

LOVEIT

FABULOUS V12 Rev it or let it trundle; whatever you do, the sound and response are top class.

SPACIOUS CABIN Load four adults and you’ll find their luggage goes in the boot.

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drive system and a big boot under a large hatch. This may well be the most practical Ferrari yet built.

Truth be told, it took us several weeks to pick up on the FF’s practical side. When someone lobs a 651bhp 6.2-litre V12-engined supercar in your direction, one capable of dispatching the 0-62mph sprint in 3.7sec and hitting 208mph flat out, the first thing you think about is not boot space.

STEERING, CHASSIS It’s a Ferrari, and right up to the marque’s best modern standards. Practical, too.

MIGHTY PERFORMANCE Its breadth of capability amazes. It’s easy to enjoy when driving with traffic.

What’s more, the generous dimensions, especially width, made us distinctly wary of pointing our new Ferrari at London’s tight parking spaces and congested streets.

But cars like this easily find willing occupants, so four-up driving soon became common, and the long distances they effortlessly consume mean travellers need luggage. And when the rear two rear seats weren’t

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engage a gear and, with a faint but cruel smile playing on his lips, driven it out of our gates to meet its new owner.

This has been a different Ferrari experience for us, mainly because the car itself is so different from most Ferraris. It is 10cm taller and 30cm longer than the similar-engined F12 two-seater because, despite its coupélike shape, there is viable seating for four adults, plus a novel four-wheel

he worst thing about the arrival of a Ferrari at our place is that, eventually, it’ll go. So it is with the magnificent Ferrari FF we’ve been running for the past few months and 5500 miles. As this is written, a driver downstairs in our car park has just pressed the FF’s wheel-mounted button to bring the mighty 6262cc V12 to life, given it a couple of parting blips, squeezed the right-hand paddle to

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FERRARI FF

FF may be large, but it’s easier to drive than you might expect

You soon get used to the switchgear layout

FF is four-wheel drive, but in practice it’s rear drive in all but rare circumstances occupied, they were folded down, whereupon we found the FF could carry some long and large loads. One of the truths about a capacious car is that it will often be utilised. The Ferrari’s versatility was one reason why the FF was able to be driven and enjoyed by upwards of 10 Autocar people while with us, but while the car worked for us, we never quite killed off the debate over how relevant it was to those who truly move in the £250k Ferrari market. Do they want a car that can do everything?

Marketing types always say such people have six to 16 cars. Wouldn’t most of them prefer the partnership of an F12 with a Range Rover or Bentley Bentayga?

We did run to earth a couple of FF owners, one at a cars-in-field event and one in London’s West End. Neither was keen to be identified, but for both, the message was the same: there are lots of people who want to go in a Ferrari, so the more seats the better. Understandably,

Boot is a neat 450 litres with rear seats up

There are lots of people who want to go in a Ferrari, so the more seats the better because the British climate is fundamentally temperate, neither had put his FF’s novel front drive system to much use (it only becomes effective in the lower gears, when the rear wheels get close to slippage), but one owner was planning to use his car for a skiing trip, which is one of the key uses cited for the car when it was being dreamed up in Maranello, back around 2010.

None of us found the FF displayed any important drawback as a driver’s car as a result of its extra size, weight or wheelbase. You’d doubtless find an F12 a bit more agile in a direct faceoff, but when the FF is yours for a day or a weekend, nothing could seem less relevant. Then it’s all about the fine, firm seats, the novel switchgear

(front-engined Ferraris can be a bit intimidating until you learn the controls) and, above all, enjoying the potential of the engine. This V12 is as strong as you could want: torquey from 2000rpm, massively powerful to 7000rpm and beyond, long-legged in every one of its seven paddle-controlled gears except first and possessed (provided you turn the wheel-mounted manettino to Sport) of a super-smooth exhaust howl that not only advertises its potential but also gives you a pretty good clue to how many cylinders it has.

Your perception of the 4x4 system working will be rare, but if you put your FF around a track, something it can handle with alacrity, you’ll discover if you press hard enough that at the point

TEST STARTED 7.4.15 Mileage at start 13,722 Mileage at end 19,712 PRICES List price new £227,168 List price now £227,168 Price as tested (new) £314,662 Price as delivered £190,000 Dealer value now £180,000 Private value now £170,000 Trade value now £160,000 OPTIONS HIGHLIGHTS Rosso 2007 F1 paint £19,130, panoramic glass roof £10,460, carbonfibre dashboard inserts £8615, suspension lift system £3564, 20in dark-painted alloys £3552, premium hi-fi £3552, ventilated electric seats £2112, front parking camera £1920 FUEL CONSUMPTION AND RANGE Claimed economy 17.3mpg (combined) Fuel tank 91 litres Test average 17.2mpg Test best 22.2mpg Test worst 14.9mpg Real-world range 325 miles TECH HIGHLIGHTS 0-62mph 3.7sec Top speed 208mph Engine V12, 6262cc, petrol Max power 651bhp at 8000rpm Max torque 504lb ft at 6000rpm Transmission 7-spd automated manual Boot 450–800 litres Wheels 20in, alloy Tyres 245/35 R20 (f), 295/35 R20 (r) Weight 1880kg SERVICE AND RUNNING COSTS Contract hire rate £4400 per month CO2 360g/km Service costs None Other costs None Fuel costs £2058 Running costs inc fuel £2058 Cost per mile 34 pence Depreciation £10,000 (est, used car) Cost per mile inc depreciation £2.01 Faults Nose lifter malfunction PREVIOUS REPORTS 22 Apr, 6 May, 27 May, 1 Jul, 5 Aug, 12 Aug

where a rear-drive-only F12 might get into a powerslide (provided the chassis settings are configured to allow it), the FF will stay close to neutral, feeling as if it is being pulled as well as pushed. Few cars of this potential feel so fail-safe.

Ferrari’s unique ability, maintained for many decades, has been to make the experience of driving or owning one of its cars quite different from the experience in a rival, however good.

Apart from dividing 5000 miles of rare driving pleasure among more than 10 people, our FF’s achievement has been to show that these Maranello-only qualities can extend to a car that gets as close to an SUV in capability, if not looks, as Ferrari is ever likely to go. steve.cropley@haymarket.com 9 SEPTEMBER 2015 AUTOCAR.CO.UK 63

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Fiat 500X

FIRST REPORT Fiat’s stylish 500 family has embraced the crossover movement with the new 500X. But how will it stand up to the rigours of family life? Let’s find out

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t’s a big car, the Fiat 500X — in many ways. For starters, this is the car that gives the iconic 500 extra height as well as the additional width and length that we’ve already seen with the 500L. But it’s a huge car tactically, too; right now, you’d have to say Fiat is relying more than ever on its 500 sub-brand.

Having a successful small crossover as part of that is of paramount importance.

This explains why there’s now a 500X in the Autocar car park — even though, as with all of this new breed of baby crossover, we’re pretty convinced it’s more about wanting to look like you have the lifestyle that merits an offroader, instead of actually needing one.

We’re not about to go easy on the 500X, though; I have a fairly lanky husband and two sons who show every sign of

becoming as tall as him, and our car gets daily abuse on the school run plus longer trips during the holidays.

Choosing a 500X, it must be said, is not an entirely straightforward task.

There are a few petrol options, ranging from a normally aspirated 1.6-litre unit with 109bhp to a 168bhp 1.4 turbo that comes with an automatic gearbox, fourwheel drive and a price that sits north of £22,000 before you’ve added a single option (yes, the extras list is as much a part of 500X life as it is with the 500).

Then there are a range of diesels, starting with the 1.3-litre Multijet and going up to a 2.0 with 138bhp and four-wheel drive. We’ve aimed a little lower and brought in a 1.6 Multijet, in Cross spec. This brings one main benefit: it keeps the 500X on 17in

wheels instead of the 18-inchers that are standard with Cross Plus and do little for the ride quality. The downside is that you end up throwing on a fair few options to make up the difference.

Our car has optional metallic red paint, plus the Comfort Pack Plus (a height-adjustable front passenger seat and a third rear headrest), the Visibility Pack (auto headlights and wipers, heated side mirrors and an auto-dimming rear-view mirror), the upgraded Beats audio system and heated front seats.

We also stumped up £1000 to get the upgraded, enlarged version of Fiat’s infotainment set-up, and a further £650 for the Safety Pack Plus. The Navigation Pack brings a 6.5in screen instead of the regular 5.0in version, along with

useful connection points for auxiliary audio and USB. The Safety Pack adds a rear-view parking camera plus warning systems for lane departures and blind spot monitoring.

What we’ve got, therefore, is a 500X costing nearly £25,000, but if Fiat is to be believed, that’s precisely the sort of spec that customers are going for (although many of them, it must be said, will just go for Cross Plus on larger wheels). That’s not cheap, but a Mini Countryman — the most obvious rival for the 500X, in my view — can reach this sort of price just as easily.

First impressions? The slightly elevated seating position feels great around town and the kids are really impressed with the Beats audio system.

And for the time being at least, I’m pleased that I’m in a different type of 500 from the dozens of regular examples that I see around Teddington.

Fiat, however, is no doubt hoping that the rarity value doesn’t last long. michele.hall@haymarket.com

Fiat 500X 1.6 Multijet II Off-road Cross

Auxiliary and USB inputs come with optional Navigation Pack

Raised seats let Michele look down on all the regular 500s

Price £20,095 Price as tested £24,720 Options Amore Red paint (£1000), Navigation Pack Plus (£1000), leather upholstery (£900), Safety Pack Plus (£650), HiFi by Beats (£600), Visibility Pack (£200), heated front seats (£175), Comfort Pack Plus (£100) Economy 45mpg Faults None Expenses None

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Mileage | 2010 Our MX-5 shows its usability in all conditions on a weekend run to Dorset

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he Mazda’s August arrival date led me to think that I’d be enjoying open-top motoring as soon as I got the keys. Unfortunately, the recent spate of autumnal weather has mostly put a stop to that. But not to worry. It means that I’ve been able to test out the MX-5’s wet-weather ability and I’m pleased to report that, no matter what the conditions, the Mazda puts a smile on my face.

On its first weekend, I drove it to Dorset. The 240-mile round trip took in city streets, a long stretch of motorway and finally some twisty country roads, all of which the Mazda took in its stride.

The MX-5’s small dimensions make it a doddle to drive around town, and the car has plenty of power to keep up with traffic on the motorway. The cabin does get quite noisy, but never loud enough

Mazda MX 5 2.0i SE L Nav The drive home from Dorset, via Sandbanks ferry (above), was conducted roof down

Renault Twingo Mileage 3150 Two things make the Twingo stand out from its city car rivals: its styling and its rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive layout.

The Twingo’s looks still turn heads after a few months on the road. It’s more Renault 5 than previous Twingo in appearance, and that’s no bad thing.

to put an end to conversation between driver and passenger.

As expected, country roads put the biggest smile on my face. The accurate steering, sweet gearchange and light weight combine to create a fantastically fun car. Experts such as our own road testers love it, and average drivers like me can thoroughly enjoy it too.

The low kerb weight and small dimensions add to the driving enjoyment, but the good news is that they don’t hamper practicality too much, either. The boot is smaller than the previous-generation car’s but it’s a better shape and has no problem accommodating weekend bags or a weekend’s worth of food shopping.

There’s also plenty of room in the cabin, which is a comfortable place to be.

The weight saving hasn’t stripped the MX-5 bare of creature comforts. Our car has sat-nav, climate control and cruise control, which has already come into its own on long stretches of average-speed camera-controlled motorway.

A final bit of good news: the sun came out on the way home on Sunday afternoon, which meant that I could finally lower the roof. I’m pleased to report that, whatever the weather, the MX-5 is a great place to be. matthew.burrow@haymarket.com

Our car’s yellow paintwork may be garish, but it suits the nature of the car and gets it noticed. The only other two cars on our long-term test fleet that grab so much attention are the Ferrari FF and Citroën C4 Cactus.

On the styling front, then, the Twingo is quite successful. But when it comes

to the powertrain, it’s more of a mixed bag. Our car has a 69bhp 1.0-litre petrol engine and five-speed manual gearbox.

The Twingo is never going to win any land speed records, but for a car that rarely leaves the urban environment, that’s no big deal. All it needs to do on a daily basis is make decent progress in town, and it’s more than capable of that.

The five-speed gearbox is notchy and there’s nowhere convenient to rest your clutch foot, but I’ve got used to both of these traits because it was a similar story in our old long-term Dacia Sandero, in which I spent a lot of time.

The big problems only really start when the city limits are behind you. On the motorway, the Twingo feels very underpowered and struggles to keep up with the faster traffic. Faced with even the slightest incline, the gearchange indicator makes it known that it would be happier in fourth gear to maintain forward momentum, resulting in a noisy and uneconomical journey.

Also, the light steering that makes urban driving such a breeze doesn’t

Price £20,695 Price as tested £21,355 Economy 34.2mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 19.8.15

inspire confidence at higher speeds, and the car’s high sides mean that it gets buffeted around, which proves tiring on longer runs.

If you want a car that stands out, take a look at the Twingo, but if you drive out of town frequently, you may want to consider the more powerful, turbocharged 0.9-litre version. matthew.burrow@haymarket.com

Renault Twingo 1.0 SCe 70 Play Price £9995 Price as tested £10,735 Economy 37.8mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 12.8.15

Light steering is a boon in urban use

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MOT tests are important. James Ruppert believes a new car should still be tested on its third birthday

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he Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had it about right when the cover of that mythical publication featured two words: ‘Don’t panic’. I reckon your MOT test certificate should have something similar at the top of the page, and any mention of the MOT test should be routinely prefaced by those reassuring words.

As usual, the MOT test is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Just recently, I have been coming over all very Alan Partridge by appearing on local radio and sort of telling it like it is.

Apparently, if you believed some news reports, some from the motoring media, the MOT system is in total meltdown.

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away, driving off into the wilderness with a potentially unroadworthy car.

The truth is that the MOT system is now a cloud-based entity. It exists in a virtual time and space, like much of our lives these days.

The thing is that garage owners and MOT testers are mostly practical blokes who just go reassuringly analogue if there is a digital crisis. So if the system crashes, they simply issue a paper certificate. When the system is back online, they can then update the records. According to my local garage, the situation can be summed up as: ‘Don’t panic’.

Much more of a concern, though, and not nearly as sensationalist, is the fact that all vehicles will soon require an MOT

Tyres matter: MOT test helps spot faults

test on their fourth birthday, rather than their third. The initial reaction is that it will save us some time waiting around at the MOT station and a bit of cash.

Unfortunately, putting off that safety check is likely to actually increase running costs and expenses. Three years is a good point at which to start taking maintenance a bit more seriously as the manufacturer warranty ends, along with the main agent visits. Most

Garage owners and MOT testers are mostly practical blokes who just go reassuringly analogue in a digital crisis

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Tony Blow bought this 1988 Fiat Coupé 20v Turbo from a garage that swapped its shot engine for a serviced one from a written-off car. “I took a train to Birmingham, paid £1495 for the Coupé and drove it straight back home to Glasgow,” says Tony. “An old friend designs and manufactures custom ECU chips for the Fiat Coupé. It now puts out about 250bhp.

I fitted a solid strut brace to tighten up the turn-in and a full leather interior. The Coupé is fun to drive, has a lot of charisma and always turns heads. It’s a cracking wee thing.”

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SALVAGE YARD PARTS WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE THIS WEEK:prom ised to ring back.

they I asked a main dealer for a part and the part in an envelope and it Meanwhile, a salvage yard popped tenner plus a fiver for postage. arrived the next day, at a cost of a

USED CAR DILEMMA: SKODA YETI

people don’t really care about how their car is looked after until it fails.

These are parents who care about their children yet will blithely ignore the marginal tread depth on their MPV’s offside rear and moan loudly about the £100 required to replace, fit and balance that bit of rubber.

This is what we are up against: ignorance and penny-pinching. Fretting about it is unlikely to change the situation, and perhaps we should take an example from the many pre-1960 car owners. I mean, those cars are all accidents waiting to happen, yet they volunteer to get them tested anyway. At least old-car owners are demonstrating some proper stiff upper lip motoring and refusing to panic.

With a family-friendly name and pocket-sized proportions, the Skoda Yeti is also practical and can stray off road when required to cross that muddy festival car park. Mostly, though, you won’t lose friends and alienate people. Job done.

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And your starter for 10…

Is your V8 just not cutting it any longer?

Perhaps you need an extra pair of cylinders.

Mark Pearson picks five of his favourite V10s

1 Bristol Fighter (2004 2011) The trouble with the V8 Bristols is that there are simply too many of them. Better by far to invest in the Fighter, a 525bhp 8.0-litre V10engined, two-seat, gullwing-doored supercar, of which there are only 13.

Bristol tweaked both the humble Chrysler V10 and its six-speed gearbox, so what you get is a rare and fast car: 0-60mph in 4.0sec and a top speed of 210mph. As with

all Bristols, it’s quirky, quixotic and intelligent, with an aluminium body, a low centre of gravity and steering and handling you can set up to your own tastes. Alas, a proposed 1012bhp twin-turbo version, with a 275mph top speed, was never built.

You won’t find many of these low-drag, lightweight, thoughtfully designed cars for sale, but £160,000 buys you one when you do.

Audi RS6 (2008 2010)

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It may look like a beefed-up version of the car your solicitor drives, but underneath beats a 571bhp 5.0-litre V10 related to the unit found in a Lamborghini Gallardo.

The RS6 goes like stink; 0-62mph takes 4.6sec and it’ll top 170mph if you derestrict it. It has massive tyres and four-wheel drive to cope with its thuggish power. You can even drift it

Volkswagen Phaeton V10 (2003 2007) The Phaeton was VW showing us what it could do. It was large, luxurious and exquisitely made. It had four-wheel drive and a beautiful cabin with exceptionally comfortable seats, and there was even a long-wheelbase version for oligarchs to stretch out in the back of. It was subtle, classy, soft riding and, with the W12 engine from the Bentley Continental to 70 AUTOCAR.CO.UK 9 SEPTEMBER 2015

power it, impressively refined and fast.

With this gravelly 306bhp 5.0-litre V10 twin-turbo diesel, though, it turns a little rough. It has enormous shove — 553lb ft — but on the road it never feels quick. Its brakes feel a little disconcerting and its official economy is a woeful 24.9mpg.

Problems are few, however, and such luxury can be yours from as little as £6k.

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around a track all day, and, if you buy the Avant version, you can take the dog, too.

Alas, on the road the ride is so stiff that it can make grown men weep, the steering is a bit peculiar and the throttle and brakes are too sharp.

Pick one up now for £25,000, or try its precursor, the milder 429bhp V10powered S6, with prices from £12,000.

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BMW M5 (2005 2010)

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The iron fist in the velvet glove of this Bangle-designed BMW is a ferocious and utterly amazing 507bhp 5.0-litre V10.

Drive is transmitted to the rear wheels through a seven-speed SMG paddle-shift transmission. This tech-fest can see off 0-62mph in around four seconds and 0-100mph in less than 10. Top speed is a limited 155mph, but once derestricted the car can fly up to 205mph.

Lexus LFA (2010 2012) A fire-breathing carbonfibre supercar isn’t what you associate with Lexus, purveyor of beautifully made but essentially rather dull eco-luxury cars.

In fact, the only thing the LFA has in common with a regular Lexus is its superb build quality. It’s wide and low, unfettered by hybrid activity and packing a 552bhp 4.8-litre V10 under its bonnet.

Most impressively, it responds with utter alacrity to every command.

Throttle and steering responses are top notch and the brakes sublime. Here is a car that is happy to potter around town and delighted to drift around a circuit.

There’s plenty to go wrong, however, and many will have been used hard, so check the condition carefully. Prices start from £12,000.

5 It can dispatch 0-62mph in 3.7sec and hit 202mph. And it does all this with utter suaveness, emitting the most glorious noise as it goes. The roadholding is exemplary, the handling superb, the ride amazing and the interior a work of art.

Only 500 were made, costing £336,000 new; now you’re looking at £400,000. Worth every penny. ?? MONTH 2015AUTOCAR.CO.UK71

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ABARTH 500 3dr hatch Good value hot hatch. In Esseesse trim it’s great fun to drive AAABC 1.4 T-Jet £14205 133 155 26 500 CONVERTIBLE 2dr open Open-top hot hatch; has a softer ride than the tin-top car AAABC 1.4 16v Turbo T-Jet £16005 133 155 27

For full reviews of every car listed here, visit our website, autocar.co.uk Autocar’s star ratings explained CCCCC Inherently dangerous/unsafe.

Tragically, irredeemably flawed.

BCCCC Appalling. Massively significant failings.

ACCCC Very poor. Fails to meet any accepted class boundaries.

ABCCC Poor. Within acceptable AACCC AABCC AAACC AAABC AAAAC AAAAB AAAAA

class boundaries in a few areas. Still not recommendable.

Off the pace. Below average in nearly all areas.

Acceptable. About average in key areas, but disappoints.

Competent. Above average in some areas, average in others.

Outstanding in none.

Good. Competitive in key areas.

Very good. Very competitive in key areas, competitive in secondary respects.

Excellent. Near class leading in key areas, and in some ways outstanding.

Brilliant, unsurpassed. All but flawless.

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ALFA ROMEO MITO 3dr hatch Classy, well equipped and cheap. No dynamic benchmark AAACC 0.9 TB TwinAir 105 Distinctive £16160 103 98 13 0.9 TB TwinAir 105 QV Line £16910 103 98 13 1.4 140 M’iair TCT Distinctive £17710 138 124 19 1.4 140 M’air TCT QV Line £18460 138 124 20 1.4 170 M’Air Q’Verde £20300 168 139 26 1.3 JTDm-2 85 Distinctive £16745 94 90 11 1.6 JTDm-2 120 D’tive S-S £17910 118 114 19 1.6 JTDm-2 120 QV Line £18660 118 114 20 GIULIETTA 5dr hatch Stylish, rewarding family hatch. A new era for Alfa AAACC 2.0 JTDM 175 Excl. TCT £25840 148 110 20 2.0 JTDM 175 QV Line TCT £27590 148 110 20 1.4 TB 120 Progression £18450 118 149 16 1.4 TB 120 Distinctive £19700 118 149 16 1.4 TB Mult’ir 170 Distinctive £21200 168 134 23 1.4 TB Multiair 170 Excl. £22950 168 134 23 1.4 TB Multir 170 Ex’ive TCT £24245 168 121 23 1.4 TB Multiair 170 QV Line £24700 168 134 23 1.4 TB Mult’r 170 QV Line TCT £25995 168 121 23 1.6 JDTM 105 Progression £19500 103 114 16 £20750 103 114 16 1.6 JDTM 105 Distinctive 1.6 JDTM 105 Excl. £22500 103 114 16 2.0 JTDM 150 Distinctive £21930 148 110 20 2.0 JTDM 150 Excl. £23680 148 110 20 2.0 JTDM 150 QV Line £25430 148 110 20 4C 2dr coupé A singular statement. Flawed, perhaps, but the best current Alfa by miles AAABC 1.75T £51500 237 159 50 ALPINA B3 2dr coupé Rapid, usable and cheaper alternative to an M3 AAAAC 3.0 S Biturbo £51350 394 224 B3 4dr saloon Rapid, usable and cheaper alternative to an M3 AAAAC 3.0 S Biturbo £50350 394 224 B3 CONVERTIBLE 2dr open Rapid, usable, cheaper alternative to an M3.

AAAAC 3.0 S Biturbo £56450 394 225 B3 TOURING 5dr estate Rapid, usable and cheaper alternative to an M3.

AAAAC 3.0 S Biturbo £51350 394 225 B5 4dr saloon Huge pace, but let down by uninvolving dynamics AAACC B5 Biturbo £71950 507 252 B5 Biturbo £71950 500 252 B5 TOURING 5dr estate Huge pace, but let down by uninvolving dynamics AAACC B5 Biturbo £71950 500 255 B7 4dr saloon Makes sense on an autobahn but not for the UK AAACC 4.4 V8 Switch-tronic £95850 500 282 4.4 V8 Switch-tronic LWB £98850 500 282 D3 4dr saloon Precise dynamics with added Alpina kudos and a great engine AAAAC 3.0D Biturbo £46950 345 139 50 D5 4dr saloon Rapid, usable and cheaper alternative to an M5 AAAAC 3.0 Bi-Turbo £55950 340 155 XD3 5dr 4x4 Alpina’s first SUV is a triumph. Hugely fast, capable and desirable AAAAB 3.0 XD3 £54950 345 - 49 ARIEL ATOM 0dr open Superbike fast track mentalism. As exhilarating as cars get AAAAB 245 £29321 245 - 300 £34319 300 - ASTON MARTIN RAPIDE 4dr saloon Four-door Aston is more practical, but just as charming AAAAC 5.9 V12 S £149995 550 355 VANTAGE 2dr coupé Stunning Brit sports car. V12 is a new benchmark for Aston AAAAC 4.7 V8 £84995 420 299 4.7 V8 S £99995 430 299 5.9 V12 S £138000 565 388 50 VANTAGE ROADSTER 2dr open Drop-top suits the Vantage’s relaxed nature AAAAC 4.7 V8 £98995 420 299 -

4.7 V8 S £110700 430 299 5.9 V12 S £150000 510 388 DB9 VOLANTE 2dr open Facelift a big improvement dynamically AAABC 5.9 V12 £141995 470 333 DB9 2dr coupé Enchanting looks, but ride is choppy.

Manual the best AAABC 5.9 V12 £131995 470 333 VANQUISH 2dr coupé A British supercar for British roads. Looks the business, too AAAAC 5.9 V12 £189995 565 335 AUDI A1 3dr hatch Audi’s answer to the Mini. Fun and refined

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1.4 TFSI 125 Sport £16730 123 115 21 1.4 TFSI 125 S line £18725 123 117 21 1.4 TFSI 150 S line £19520 148 112 25 2.0 TFSI 231 S1 £25420 228 162 33 1.6 TDI 116 SE £15430 114 92 19 1.6 TDI 116 Sport £17405 114 92 19 1.6 TDI 116 S line £19400 114 93 19 A1 5dr sportback Rear doors add convenience to an attractive package AAABC 1.4 TFSI 125 Sport £17350 123 118 21 1.4 TFSI 125 S line £19345 123 119 21 1.4 TFSI 150 S line £20140 148 112 25 2.0 TFSI 231 S1 £26155 228 166 33 1.6 TDI 116 SE £16050 114 92 19 1.6 TDI 116 Sport £18025 114 92 19 1.6 TDI 116 S line £20020 114 93 19 A3 3dr hatch Classy interior, stable handling and good engines. Second only to the Golf AAAAC 1.2 TFSI 110 SE £18615 108 117 17 1.6 TDI 110 ultra SE Technik £21615 108 89 17 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S line £29945 148 129 26 2.0 TDI 184 quattro Sport £27795 148 127 26 2.0 TDI 184 S line £27035 148 114 28 2.0 TDI 184 Sport £24885 148 112 27 2.0 TFSI 300 quattro S3 £30980 296 162 36 1.2 TFSI 110 Sport £20015 108 117 17 1.2 TFSI 110 S line £22125 108 114 18 1.4 TFSI 125 SE £19915 123 122 18 1.4 TFSI 125 Sport £21315 123 122 19 1.4 TFSI 125 S line £23465 123 124 20 1.4 TFSI 150 SE ACT £20765 148 109 23 1.4 TFSI 150 Sport ACT £22165 148 109 23 1.4 TFSI 150 S line ACT £24315 148 111 24 1.8 TFSI 180 Sport £23905 178 135 26 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro Sport £26830 178 149 27 1.8 TFSI 180 S line £26055 178 135 27 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro S line £29055 178 153 28 1.6 TDI 110 ultra SE £20865 108 89 17 1.6 TDI 110 Sport £22265 108 105 17 1.6 TDI 110 S line £24415 108 107 18 2.0 TDI 150 SE £22215 148 108 21 2.0 TDI 150 SE Technik £22965 148 108 23 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £23615 148 108 21 2.0 TDI 150 S line £25765 148 109 21 A3 4dr saloon All the A3’s standard attributes in a saloon body. S3 great looking AAAAC 1.4 TFSI 150 ACT Sport £23335 148 110 23 1.6 TDI 110 S line £25585 108 106 18 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro S line £30225 178 153 28 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro Sport £28000 178 149 25 1.8 TFSI 180 Sport £25075 178 135 23 2.0 300 quattro S3 £33580 296 164 36 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £24785 148 107 23 1.4 TFSI 150 ACT S line £25485 148 112 24 1.8 TFSI 180 S line £27225 178 135 24 1.6 TDI 110 Sport £23435 108 104 17 2.0 TDI 150 S line £26935 148 108 24 2.0 TDI 184 Sport £26055 181 112 27 2.0 TDI 184 S line £28205 181 114 28 2.0 TDI 184 quattro Sport £28965 181 127 26 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S line £31115 181 129 26 A3 5dr sportback Classy interior, stable handling and good engines. Second only to the Golf AAAAC 1.4 TFSI 125 S line £24085 123 124 20 1.4 TFSI 125 Sport £21935 123 122 19 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro S line £29675 178 153 28 1.8 TFSI 180 S line £26675 178 135 27 1.8 TFSI 180 Sport £24525 178 135 26 2.0 TDI 150 S line £26385 148 109 21 2.0 TDI 150 SE £22835 148 108 21 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £24235 148 108 21 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S line £30565 175 129 26 2.0 TFSI 300 quattro S3 £31600 296 162 36 1.2 TFSI 110 SE £19235 108 117 17 1.2 TFSI 110 Sport £20635 108 117 17 1.2 TFSI 110 S line £22745 108 114 18 1.4 TFSI 125 SE £20535 123 122 18

1.4 TFSI 150 SE ACT £21385 148 112 23 1.4 TFSI 150 Sport ACT £22785 148 112 23 1.4 TFSI 150 S line ACT £24935 148 114 24 1.4 TFSI 150 e-tron £35340 201 37 29 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro Sport £27450 178 149 27 1.6 TDI 110 ultra SE £21485 108 89 17 1.6 TDI 110 ultra SE Technik £22235 108 89 17 1.6 TDI 110 Sport £22885 108 105 17 1.6 TDI 110 S line £25035 108 107 18 2.0 TDI 150 SE Technik £23585 148 108 23 2.0 TDI 184 Sport £25505 175 112 27 2.0 TDI 184 quattro Sport £28415 175 127 26 2.0 TDI 184 S line £27655 175 114 28 A3 CABRIOLET 2dr open A measured success, but the usual sacrifices make it fun free AAABC 1.4 TFSI 150 S line £29675 148 118 26 1.4 TFSI 150 SE £26125 148 116 24 1.4 TFSI 150 Sport £27525 148 116 25 1.8 TFSI 180 S line Au £32895 178 133 29 1.8 TFSI 180 Sport Au £30745 178 133 29 2.0 TDI 150 S line £31125 148 115 27 2.0 TDI 150 SE £27575 148 113 24 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £28975 148 113 25 1.8 TFSI 180 Sport £29265 178 140 29 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro Sport £32225 178 154 29 1.8 TFSI 180 S line £31415 178 140 31 1.8 TFSI 180 quattro S line £34415 178 157 32 2.0 TFSI 300 quattro S3 £39245 296 165 42 1.6 TDI 110 SE £26225 108 110 17 £27625 108 110 18 1.6 TDI 110 Sport 1.6 TDI 110 S line £29775 108 112 20 2.0 TDI 184 Sport £30245 181 117 30 2.0 TDI 184 S line £32395 181 119 31 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S line £35435 181 134 31 2.0 TDI 184 quattro Sport £33285 181 132 30 A4 4dr saloon Highly competent and quality laden; leaves the dynamic finesse to its rivalsAAAAC 2.0 TDI 150 Black Edition £31005 148 119 24 2.0 TDI 150 S line £30230 148 119 23 2.0 TDI 150 SE £28855 148 127 23 2.0 TDI 150 SE Technik £30275 148 127 23 2.0 TDI 177 SE Technik £29620 175 120 27 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro Black Edi £35275 222 155 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £34500 222 155 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £31645 222 155 32 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE Techni £32945 222 155 33 1.8 TFSI 120 SE £24385 118 151 19 1.8 TFSI 120 SE Technik £25685 118 151 19 1.8 TFSI 120 S line £27240 118 151 20 1.8 TFSI 120 Black Edition £28015 118 151 20 1.8 TFSI 170 SE £26000 168 134 25 1.8 TFSI 170 SE Technik £27420 168 134 24 1.8 TFSI 170 S line £28855 168 134 26 1.8 TFSI 170 Black Edition £29630 168 134 26 3.0 V6 333 S4 £39610 328 178 36 3.0 V6 333 S4 Black Edition £40685 328 178 36 2.0 TDIe 136 SE Technik £28600 134 112 23 2.0 TDIe 136 SE £27600 134 112 23 2.0 TDI 163 Ultra SE £28320 161 109 27 2.0 TDI 163 Ultra SE Technik £29740 161 109 27 2.0 TDI 177 S line £31175 175 120 27 2.0 TDI 177 Black Edition £31950 175 120 28 2.0 TDI quattro 177 SE £29880 175 134 27 2.0 TDI quattro 177 SE Technik £31180 175 134 27 2.0 TDI quattro 177 S line £32735 175 134 27 2.0 TDI quattro 177 Black Edit £33510 175 134 28 3.0 TDI quattro 245 SE £35360 237 149 33 3.0 TDI quattro 245 S line £38215 237 149 33 3.0 TDI quattro 245 Black Edit £38990 237 149 34 A4 AVANT 5dr estate Highly competent and quality laden; leaves dynamic finesse to others AAAAC 1.8 TFSI 170 SE Technik £28735 158 141 24 2.0 TDI 150 Black Edition £32305 148 124 24 2.0 TDI 150 S line £31530 148 124 23 2.0 TDI 150 SE £30155 148 129 23 2.0 TDI 150 SE Technik £31575 148 130 23 2.0 TDI 177 SE Technik £30920 175 126 27 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro Black Edi £36575 222 159 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £35800 222 159 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £32945 222 159 32 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE Techni £34245 222 159 33 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line £39550 237 154 33 3.0 TDI 245 quattro SE £36695 237 154 33 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro S4 Blk Ed £41985 328 180 36 1.8 TFSI 120 SE £25685 118 154 19 1.8 TFSI 120 SE Technik £26985 118 154 19 1.8 TFSI 120 S line £28540 118 154 20 1.8 TFSI 120 Black Edition £29315 118 154 20 1.8 TFSI 170 SE £27315 158 141 25 1.8 TFSI 170 S line £30170 158 141 26 1.8 TFSI 170 Black Edition £30945 158 141 26 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro S4 £40910 328 180 36

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NEW CARS A-Z 4.2 V8 RS4 £56595 444 249 41 2.0 TDIe 136 SE £28900 134 116 23 2.0 TDIe 136 SE Technik £29900 134 116 23 2.0 TDI 163 Ultra SE £29620 161 114 27 2.0 TDI 163 Ultra SE Technik £31040 161 114 27 2.0 TDI 177 S line £32475 175 126 27 2.0 TDI 177 Black Edition £33250 175 126 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE £31180 175 139 27 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE Technik £32480 175 139 27 2.0 TDI 177 quattro S line £34035 175 139 27 2.0 TDI 177 quattro Black Edit £34810 175 139 28 3.0 TDI 245 quattro Black Edit £40325 237 154 34 A4 ALLROAD 5dr estate Rugged 4x4 A4. Pricey

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2.0 TFSI 225 quattro £34515 222 164 33 2.0 TDI 177 quattro £32680 175 153 27 3.0 TDI V6 245 quattro £38265 242 161 33 A5 5dr sportback Refined four-door coupe, but short on charm or finesse AAABC 1.8 TFSI 170 Black Edition £32615 168 136 27 1.8 TFSI 170 SE Technik £29900 168 136 27 2.0 TDI 136 ultra £28195 138 117 23 2.0 TDI 136 ultra S line £32265 138 117 24 2.0 TDI 136 ultra SE £30435 138 109 23 2.0 TDI 136 ultra SE Technik £31385 138 109 24 2.0 TDI 150 £30100 148 127 24 2.0 TDI 150 Black Edition £35935 148 131 24 2.0 TDI 150 S line £34980 148 127 24 2.0 TDI 150 SE £31870 148 127 23 2.0 TDI 150 SE Technik £33340 148 127 23 2.0 TDI 177 Black Edition £34885 175 120 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro Black Edit £36540 175 134 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro S line £35465 175 134 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE £32475 175 134 27 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE Technik £33825 175 134 27 2.0 TDI 177 SE Technik £32170 175 120 28 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro Black Edi £37325 222 164 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £36370 222 159 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £33260 222 152 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE Techni £34730 222 159 33 3.0 TDI 204 Black Edition £38485 201 129 30 3.0 TDI 245 quattro Black Edit £42010 242 164 35 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro S5 Black £44065 328 184 41 1.8 TFSI 170 £26780 168 136 26 1.8 TFSI 170 SE £28550 168 136 26 1.8 TFSI 170 S line £31540 168 136 27 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro S5 £42990 328 184 40 2.0 TDI 177 £29050 175 120 27 2.0 TDI 177 SE £30820 175 120 27 2.0 TDI 177 S line £33810 175 120 28 3.0 TDI 204 S line £37410 201 129 30 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line £41090 242 159 34 A5 2dr coupé High class, good-looking coupe. V8 S5 coupe better than V6 Cab AAAAC 1.8 TFSI 170 Black Edition £32865 168 134 27 1.8 TFSI 170 S line £31790 168 134 27 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro Black Edi £37575 222 161 34 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £36620 222 157 33 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £33995 222 149 33 1.8 TFSI 170 SE £29200 168 134 27 3.0 TFSI 333 S5 £43790 328 184 41 3.0 TFSI 333 S5 Black Edition £44865 328 184 42 4.2 V8 RS5 £59920 444 246 45 2.0 TDI 163 Ultra SE £31590 161 109 28 2.0 TDI 177 SE £31470 175 120 28 2.0 TDI 177 S line £34060 175 120 29 2.0 TDI 177 Black Edition £35135 175 120 29 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE £33125 175 134 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro S line £35715 175 134 28 2.0 TDI 177 quattro Black Edit £36790 175 134 29 3.0 TDI 204 S line £37660 201 129 30 3.0 TDI 204 Black Edition £38735 201 129 30 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line £41340 242 158 35 3.0 TDI 245 quattro Black Ed’ £42260 242 162 35 A5 CABRIOLET 2dr open Appealing. Lowerpowered, steel-sprung trim’s best AAABC 1.8 TFSI 170 S line £35570 168 143 29 1.8 TFSI 170 S line Special Ed £36695 168 143 29 2.0 TDI 150 S line £37515 148 129 27 2.0 TDI 150 S line Special Edi £38520 148 132 27 2.0 TDI 150 SE £34265 148 123 27 2.0 TDI 177 S line Special Edi £38950 175 127 30 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £41980 222 167 37 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line Sp £42870 222 175 37 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £38615 222 160 37 2.0 TFSI 225 S line £38860 222 152 36 2.0 TFSI 225 S line Special Ed £39830 222 157 36 2.0 TFSI 225 SE £35575 222 144 35 3.0 TDI 204 S line Special Edi £42680 201 138 34 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line Spe £46110 242 173 40 1.8 TFSI 170 SE £32320 168 143 28 3.0 TFSI 333 S5 £47035 328 189 42

BAC MONO 2dr open An F-22 Raptor for the road. Only better built AAAAB Mono 2.3 £111168 280 - BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT 2dr coupé A brilliant Audi V8-inspired reboot AAAAC 6.0 W12 GT Speed £151100 616 338 50 4.0 V8 £123850 500 246 50 4.0 V8 S £139000 521 246 50 6.0 W12 £136710 567 385 50 CONTINENTAL GT CONVERTIBLE 2dr open A brilliant Audi V8-inspired reboot AAAAC 4.0 V8 £136250 500 254 50 4.0 V8 S £152900 521 254 50 6.0 W12 Speed £167900 616 347 50 MULSANNE 4dr saloon Effortless and graceful.

Great driving position AAABC 6.75 V8 £224700 506 393 FLYING SPUR 4dr saloon A genuine luxury saloon.

Superb inside. As it should be AAAAC 4.0 V8 £136000 500 254 50 6.0 W12 £140900 616 343 50 6.0 W12 Mulliner £150220 616 343 50

BMW 1 SERIES 3dr hatch Measures up on space and comfort now. Still no 3 Series AAAAC 118i SE £20245 134 125 18 118i Sport £21245 134 129 18 118i M Sport £23075 168 133 19 120i Sport £23295 134 136 21 120i M Sport £24995 134 139 22 125i M Sport £26375 215 157 28 M135i £31200 315 188 37 116d SE £21180 114 94 15 116d ED Plus £22030 114 89 15 116d Sport £22180 114 103 15 116d M Sport £23880 114 106 16 118d SE £22325 148 104 19 118d Sport £23325 148 109 19 118d M Sport £25025 148 114 20 120d Sport £24775 187 114 24 120d M Sport £26475 187 118 25 125d M Sport £29800 221 121 30 1 SERIES 5dr hatch Measures up on space and comfort now. Still no 3 Series AAAAC 118i SE £20775 168 125 18 118i Sport £21775 168 129 18 118i M Sport £23605 168 133 19 120i Sport £23825 134 136 21 120i M Sport £25525 134 139 22 125i M Sport £26905 215 157 28 M135i £31730 315 188 37 116d SE £21710 114 94 15 116d ED Plus £22560 114 89 15 116d Sport £22710 114 103 15 116d M Sport £24410 114 106 16 118d SE £22855 148 104 19 118d Sport £23855 148 109 19 118d M Sport £25555 148 114 20 120d Sport £25305 187 114 24 120d M Sport £27005 187 118 25 120d xDrive M Sport £30055 187 124 24 120d xDrive Sport £28355 187 119 24 125d M Sport £30330 221 121 30 2 SERIES 2dr coupé A proper compact coupé now.

M235i is one of the best BMWs period AAAAB 225d M Sport £32120 215 125 33 220i Sport £26195 215 146 25 220i M Sport £27545 215 149 26 228i M Sport £28410 242 155 30 M235i £34540 326 189 39 218d SE £24415 141 119 20 218d Sport £25415 141 119 20 218d M Sport £26765 141 123 21 220d Sport £27015 181 112 26 220d M Sport £28365 181 115 27 2 SERIES 2dr open Doesn’t quite replicate the coupe’s verve, but still good AAAAC 220d M Sport £31315 181 124 27 220d Sport £29965 181 121 27 220i M Sport £30530 215 161 29 220i Sport £29180 215 157 28 228i M Sport £31550 242 163 33 M235i £37715 326 199 40 220i Luxury £30180 215 161 28 220d Luxury £30965 181 124 27 2 SERIES ACTIVE TOURER 5dr mpv BMW’s front-drive hatch is a proper contenderAAAAC 220i M Sport £27540 189 142 20 218i SE £22475 134 115 13 218i Sport £23725 134 115 13 218i Luxury £24475 134 115 14 218i M Sport £25475 134 120 14 220i Sport £25775 189 137 20 220i Luxury £26525 189 137 20 225i xDrive Luxury £31175 227 148 23 225i xDrive M Sport £32210 227 152 24 216d SE £23410 114 99 11 216d Sport £24660 114 99 11 216d M Sport £26410 114 104 12 218d SE £24555 148 109 15 218d Sport £25805 148 109 16 218d Luxury £26555 148 109 16 218d M Sport £27555 148 114 16 220d Sport £27255 187 115 21 220d Luxury £28005 187 115 21 220d M Sport £29005 187 119 21 220d xDrive Sport £30305 187 122 20 220d xDrive Luxury £31055 187 122 21 220d xDrive M Sport £32055 187 127 21 2 SERIES GRAN TOURER 5dr mpv Seven-seat MPV worthy - but expensive. And weird AAABC 218i SE £24175 134 123 218i Sport £25425 134 123 218i Luxury £26175 134 123 -

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2.0 TDI 150 SE £26920 148 119 20 2.0 TDI 150 quattro SE £28480 148 131 20 2.0 TDI 150 S line £29470 148 122 21 2.0 TDI 150 quattro S line £31030 148 134 21 2.0 TDI 150 quattro S li Plus £33380 148 140 21 2.0 TDI 184 quattro SE £29280 181 139 24 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S line £31845 181 143 24 2.0 TDI 184 quattro S li Plus £34195 181 148 25 Q5 5dr 4x4 Exceptionally good handling for an SUV, but very compromised ride AAAAC 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro S line Pl £36270 178 174 29 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro SE £31370 178 174 28 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro S line £33770 178 174 29 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro SE £32845 222 173 29 2.0 TFSI 225 quattro S line £35300 222 179 29 2.0 TFSI 225 q’tro S line Plus £37800 222 181 30 2.0 TDI 150 quattro SE £31720 148 147 21 2.0 TDI 150 quattro S line £34120 148 150 21 2.0 TDI 150 quattro S line Plu £36655 148 152 22 2.0 TDI 177 quattro SE £32610 175 154 24 2.0 TDI 177 quattro S line £35010 175 154 25 2.0 TDI 177 q’ttro S line Plus £37510 175 154 25 3.0 TDI 245 quattro SE £38370 241 169 33 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line £40770 241 169 34 3.0 TDI 245 q’ttro S line Plus £43270 241 169 34 3.0 BiTDI 313 SQ5 £44785 309 174 41 Q7 5dr 4x4 Seven-seat SUV feels its bulk. A BMW X5 or Land Rover is better AAACC 3.0 TDI 204 S line Plus £51155 201 189 37 3.0 TDI 245 S line Plus £52585 237 195 41 3.0 TDI 245 S Line Sport Editi £55585 237 195 41 3.0 TDI 245 S Line Style Editi £54085 237 195 41 4.2 TDI 340 S line Plus £62220 335 242 46 4.2 TDI 340 S Line Sport Editi £65220 335 242 47 4.2 TDI 340 S Line Style Editi £63720 335 242 47 3.0 TDI 204 SE £43895 201 189 35 3.0 TDI 204 S line £46655 237 189 36 3.0 TDI 245 S line £48085 237 195 40 4.2 TDI 340 S line £57720 335 242 45 TT 2dr coupé TT finds its mojo at last. Drive experience now an equal to the obvious prestige AAAAC 2.0 TFSI Sport £29915 228 141 35 2.0 TFSI Sport quattro £32860 228 153 37 2.0 TFSI S line £32465 228 141 35 2.0 TFSI S line quattro £35410 228 153 38 2.0 TFSI 310 quattro TTS £38945 306 168 45 2.0 TDI Ultra Sport £29810 181 116 34 2.0 TDI Ultra S line £32360 181 116 35 TT ROADSTER 2dr open Takes the edge off the TT’s fine looks - but still hugely competent AAAAC 2.0 TDI ultra 184 S line £34545 181 114 36 2.0 TDI ultra 184 Sport £31995 181 114 35 £37595 228 158 39 2.0 TFSI 230 quattro S line 2.0 TFSI 230 quattro Sport £35045 228 158 38 2.0 TFSI 230 S line £34650 228 144 38 2.0 TFSI 230 Sport £32100 228 144 37 2.0 TFSI 310 TTS £41130 306 173 43 R8 2dr coupé Usable, but no less involving and dramatic for it. V10 is brutal AAAAB 4.2 FSI 430 V8 £93785 424 332 50 5.2 FSI 525 V10 £114885 518 346 50 5.2 FSI 550 V10 Plus £126885 543 346 50 R8 SPYDER 2dr open Great noise, and loses little of the coupe’s poise AAAAB 4.2 FSI 430 V8 £102435 424 337 50 5.2 FSI 525 V10 £123535 518 349 50

AUTOCAR TOP FIVES Sport coupés

218i M Sport £27175 134 127 220i Sport £27490 187 145 220i Luxury £28240 187 145 220i M Sport £29240 187 149 216d SE £25110 114 108 216d Sport £26360 114 108 216d Luxury £27110 114 108 216d M Sport £28110 114 111 218d SE £26255 148 115 218d Sport £27505 148 115 218d Luxury £28255 148 115 218d M Sport £29255 148 119 220d xDrive Sport £32005 187 129 220d xDrive Luxury £32755 187 129 220d xDrive M Sport £33885 187 134 3 SERIES 4dr saloon A new standard. Almost flawless in every regard AAAAB 320d EfficientDynamics Busines£30175 161 109 31 320d xDrive SE £30975 181 128 30 325d Luxury £33905 218 132 36 325d M Sport £33705 218 132 36 325d SE £31275 218 129 35 335d xDrive Luxury £41720 313 145 43 335d xDrive M Sport £41520 313 145 43 ActiveHybrid 3 Luxury £43900 306 141 39 ActiveHybrid 3 M Sport £43700 306 141 39 ActiveHybrid 3 SE £41385 306 139 38 316i ES £24255 134 138 23 316i SE £25105 134 138 23 316i Sport £25405 134 138 23 320i SE £27270 181 148 30 320i Sport £27570 181 148 30 320i Luxury £29805 181 151 31 320i M Sport £29605 181 151 31 320i xDrive SE £28805 181 159 30 £29105 181 159 30 320i xDrive Sport 320i xDrive Luxury £31305 181 162 31 320i xDrive M Sport £31105 181 162 31 328i SE £30470 242 149 35 328i Sport £30770 242 149 34 328i Luxury £33005 242 151 36 328i M Sport £32805 242 151 36 335i Luxury £38465 302 188 38 335i M Sport £38265 302 188 38 M3 £56595 425 204 45 316d ES £26275 114 109 20 316d SE £27125 114 109 20 316d Sport £27425 114 109 20 318d SE £28375 141 119 24 318d Sport £28675 141 119 24 318d Luxury £30875 141 122 25 318d M Sport £30675 141 122 25 320d Efficient Dynamics £29475 161 109 31 320d SE £29475 181 120 31 320d Sport £29775 181 120 31 320d Luxury £31975 181 123 32 320d M Sport £31775 181 123 32 320d xDrive Sport £31275 181 128 30 320d xDrive Luxury £33475 181 128 31 320d xDrive M Sport £33275 181 128 31 330d SE £34675 255 129 38 330d Luxury £37305 255 131 38 330d M Sport £37105 255 131 38 330d xDrive SE £36305 255 137 40 330d xDrive Luxury £38805 255 139 41 330d xDrive M Sport £38605 255 139 41 3 SERIES 5dr touring More of the same. Less of a wow factor, but still as good as it gets AAAAB 316i ES £25570 136 142 23 316i SE £26420 136 142 23 316i Sport £26720 136 142 23 320d EfficientDynamics £30775 161 114 31 320d EfficientDynamics Busines£31475 161 114 31 320d Sport £31075 181 125 31 320d xDrive SE £32405 181 133 30 320i SE £28570 181 150 30 320i xDrive Luxury £32605 181 163 31 320i xDrive M Sport £32405 181 163 31 320i xDrive SE £30105 181 160 30 320i xDrive Sport £30405 181 160 30 325d Luxury £35205 215 137 36 325d M Sport £35005 215 137 36 325d SE £32705 215 134 35 328i SE £31805 242 159 35 328i Sport £32105 242 159 34 330d xDrive SE £37620 255 142 40 335d xDrive Luxury £43055 309 151 43 335d xDrive M Sport £42855 309 151 43 335i Luxury £39765 302 192 37 335i M Sport £39565 302 192 38 320i Sport £28870 181 150 30 320i Luxury £31105 181 153 31

1

Porsche Cayman

From £40,000 Starter Cayman is as good as it gets. Scalpel-blade incisiveness folded into supreme usability. Prettier now, too. AAAAA

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Toyota GT86

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BMW M235i

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Audi TT S

From £38,000 Costliest version gets the deftest chassis ever to underpin a TT. The best reason yet to buy into Audi’s coupé. AAAAC

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Peugeot RCZ R

From £25,000 Who knew Toyota had another masterpiece in it after the Lexus LFA? Fun doesn’t cover it. A life companion. AAAAA

From £34,000 Towers over most obvious rivals. Only by comparing it with BMW’s best ever do the marginal demerits appear. AAAAB

From £32,000 The hot RCZ finally delivers the vivid driving experience its appearance always deserved. A serious prospect. AAAAC

ROAD TEST RESULTS

4.2 V8 RS5 £69555 444 249 47 2.0 TDI 177 SE £34575 175 127 29 2.0 TDI 177 S line £37825 175 127 30 3.0 TDI 204 S line £41555 201 138 33 3.0 TDI 245 quattro S line £45220 242 167 39 A6 4dr saloon The best sprung Audi saloon, and one of the most appealing full stop AAAAC 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro Black Ed £51165 316 164 44 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro S line £48990 316 159 43 3.0 TDI 218 Black Edition £43135 215 127 35 3.0 TDI 218 quattro Black Edn £44895 215 138 40 3.0 TDI 218 quattro S line £42720 215 133 39 3.0 TDI 218 quattro SE £40195 215 133 39 3.0 TDI 272 quattro Black Edn £46455 268 138 42 4.0 TFSI 450 S6 £56545 429 214 42 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra SE £32295 187 113 32 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra S line £34820 187 114 33 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra Black Edtn £36995 187 119 33 3.0 TDI 218 SE £38435 215 122 34 3.0 TDI 218 S line £40960 215 122 35 3.0 TDI 272 quattro SE £41755 268 133 41 3.0 TDI 272 quattro S line £44280 268 133 42 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro SE £46465 316 159 43 A6 AVANT 5dr estate A capable stress buster; BiTDi a giant killer AAAAC 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro Black Ed £53330 316 169 44 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro S line £51040 316 164 43 3.0 TDI 218 Black Edition £45185 215 130 35 3.0 TDI 218 quattro Black Edn £46960 215 144 40 3.0 TDI 218 quattro S line £44770 215 138 39 3.0 TDI 218 quattro SE £42245 215 138 39 3.0 TDI 272 quattro Black Edn £48520 268 144 42 4.0 TFSI 560 RS6 £78790 552 223 50 4.0 TFSI 450 S6 £58545 429 219 47 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra SE £34345 187 118 32 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra S line £36870 187 119 33 2.0 TDI 190 Ultra Black Edtn £39045 187 124 33 3.0 TDI 218 SE £40485 215 125 34 3.0 TDI 218 S line £43010 215 125 35 3.0 TDI 272 quattro SE £43805 268 138 41 3.0 TDI 272 quattro S line £46330 268 138 42 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro SE £48515 316 164 43 A6 ALLROAD 5dr estate Rugged 4x4 A6. Even more pricey AAAAC 3.0 TDI 218 quattro £45755 215 149 39 3.0 TDI 218 quattro Sport £49455 215 149 39 3.0 TDI 272 quattro £47315 268 149 42 3.0 TDI 272 quattro Sport £51015 268 149 42 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro £52125 316 172 44 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro Sport £55825 316 172 43 A7 SPORTBACK 5dr hatch A good mix of luxury, practicality and driver reward AAAAC 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro S line £53045 328 182 44 3.0 TFSI 333 quattro Black Edi £55395 328 182 44 3.0 TDI 218 Ultra SE Exec £45915 215 124 37 3.0 TDI 218 Ultra S line £48705 215 128 38 3.0 TDI 218 quattro SE Executi £47670 215 138 41 3.0 TDI 218 quattro S line £50480 215 142 41 3.0 TDI 218 quattro Black Edit £52830 215 142 42 3.0 TDI 272 quattro SE Executi £50255 268 138 43 3.0 TDI 272 quattro S line £53060 268 142 43 3.0 TDI 272 quattro Black Edit £55410 268 142 44 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro S line £56730 316 167 45 3.0 BiTDI 320 quattro Black Ed £59080 316 167 45 A8 4dr saloon Stylish, comfortable and solid. A convincing exec saloon AAAAC 3.0 TDI 258 quattro SE Exec £62185 247 155 46 2.0 TFSI 245 Hybrid £64280 208 144 42 2.0 TFSI 245 Hybrid L £68285 208 148 43 3.0 TFSI 310 quattro SE Exec £64290 309 183 46 3.0 TFSI 310 quattro Sport Exe £67890 308 183 46 4.0 TFSI 435 quattro SE Exec L £76160 429 216 49 4.0 TFSI 435 quattro Sport Exe £79760 429 216 49 4.0 TFSI 520 S8 £80735 513 216 49 6.3 W12 500 quattro L £97920 493 254 50 3.0 TDI 258 quattro SE £59580 254 155 46 3.0 TDI 258 quattro SE L £63545 254 158 46 3.0 TDI 258 quattro SE Exec L £66150 247 158 46 3.0 TDI 258 quattro Sport Exec £65785 254 155 46 3.0 TDI 258 quattro Sport Ex L £69750 254 158 47 4.2 TDI 385 quattro SE Exec £72835 380 189 50 4.2 TDI 385 quattro SE Ex L £76800 346 190 50 4.2 TDI 385 quattro Sport Exec £76390 380 194 50 4.2 TDI 385 quattro Sport Ex L £80355 380 197 50 Q3 5dr 4x4 Typically refined and competent, but feels more A3 than SUV AAABC 1.4 TFSI 150 SE £25380 138 128 19 1.4 TFSI 150 S line £28060 138 131 20 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro SE £29640 176 152 27 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro S line £32190 176 155 27 2.0 TFSI 180 quattro S li Plus £34540 176 161 28 2.5 TFSI 340 quattro RS £45540 335 203 37

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320i M Sport £30905 181 153 31 328i Luxury £34305 242 162 36 328i M Sport £34105 242 162 36 316d ES £27575 114 116 20 316d SE £28425 114 116 20 316d Sport £28725 114 116 20 318d SE £29675 141 124 24 318d Sport £29975 141 124 24 318d Luxury £32175 141 127 25 318d M Sport £31975 141 127 25 320d SE £30775 181 125 31 320d Luxury £33275 181 128 32 320d M Sport £33075 181 128 32 320d xDrive Sport £32705 181 133 30 320d xDrive Luxury £34905 181 133 31 320d xDrive M Sport £34705 181 133 31 330d SE £36105 255 135 38 330d Luxury £38605 255 138 38 330d M Sport £38405 255 138 38 330d xDrive Luxury £40120 255 145 41 330d xDrive M Sport £39920 255 145 41 3 SERIES GT 5dr hatch Hatchback practicality meets 3-Series talent. Duller but decent AAAAC 318d M Sport £33525 141 122 25 318d SE £31275 141 122 24 320i M Sport £32155 181 155 31 320i SE £29905 181 155 31 320i xDrive Luxury £33405 181 165 31 320i xDrive M Sport £33655 181 165 31 320i xDrive SE £31405 181 165 31 320i xDrive Sport £32405 181 165 31 328i SE £33105 242 157 35 330d xDrive M Sport £41470 258 144 41 320i Sport £30905 181 155 31 320i Luxury £31905 181 155 31 £34105 242 157 36 328i Sport 328i Luxury £35105 242 157 36 328i M Sport £35355 242 157 36 335i Luxury £40565 302 189 38 335i M Sport £40815 302 189 38 318d Sport £32275 141 122 24 318d Luxury £33275 141 122 24 320d SE £32375 181 130 30 320d Sport £33375 181 130 30 320d Luxury £34375 181 130 30 320d M Sport £34625 181 130 30 325d SE £34305 215 136 34 325d Luxury £36305 215 136 34 325d M Sport £36555 215 136 34 330d SE £37705 258 137 40 330d Luxury £39705 258 137 40 330d M Sport £39955 258 137 41 330d xDrive SE £39220 258 144 40 330d xDrive Luxury £41220 258 144 40 335d xDrive Luxury £44120 313 149 42 335d xDrive M Sport £44370 313 149 42 I3 5dr hatch Superb really, but pricey and not free from the usual electric car practicality issuesAAAAC i3 EV £30980 168 0 21 i3 EV Range Extender £34130 168 13 21 4 SERIES 2dr coupé More talented GT than brilliant B-road steer. Very comely though AAAAC 430d M Sport £40945 255 134 40 420i SE £30125 181 144 30 420i Sport £31625 181 146 30 420i Luxury £32625 181 146 30 420i M Sport £33125 181 146 30 420i xDrive SE £31660 181 159 30 420i xDrive Sport £33160 181 163 30 £34160 181 163 31 420i xDrive Luxury 420i xDrive M Sport £34660 181 163 31 428i SE £33520 242 154 33 428i Sport £35020 242 156 33 428i Luxury £36020 242 156 34 428i M Sport £36520 242 156 34 435i Luxury £41870 302 188 36 435i M Sport £42370 302 188 36 M4 £57055 425 204 42 420d SE £32495 181 111 29 420d Sport £33995 181 119 30 420d Luxury £34995 181 119 30 420d M Sport £35495 181 119 30 420d xDrive SE £33995 181 117 29 420d xDrive Sport £35495 181 125 29 420d xDrive Luxury £36495 181 125 29 420d xDrive M Sport £36995 181 125 29 425d SE £35430 215 131 33 425d Sport £36930 215 136 34 425d Luxury £37930 215 136 34 425d M Sport £38430 215 136 34 430d Luxury £40445 255 134 40

430d xDrive Luxury £41960 255 142 40 430d xDrive M Sport £42460 255 142 40 435d xDrive Luxury £45245 308 147 41 435d xDrive M Sport £45745 308 147 41 4 SERIES 2dr open A quality product to be sure, but some of the verve has gone with the roof AAABC 420d Luxury £39880 181 137 31 420d M Sport £40380 181 137 31 420d SE £37380 181 133 30 420d Sport £38880 181 137 30 428i Luxury £40220 242 163 36 428i M Sport £40720 242 163 37 428i SE £37720 242 159 36 428i Sport £39220 242 163 36 430d M Sport £45700 255 144 41 435i Luxury £45685 302 194 39 435i M Sport £46185 302 194 39 M4 £61150 425 213 45 420i SE £34910 181 154 30 420i Sport £36410 181 158 31 420i Luxury £37410 181 158 31 420i M Sport £37910 181 158 31 425d SE £39240 218 138 34 425d Sport £40755 218 143 34 425d Luxury £41755 218 143 34 425d M Sport £42255 218 143 35 430d Luxury £45200 255 144 40 435d xDrive Luxury £49100 308 155 42 435d xDrive M Sport £49600 308 155 42 4 SERIES GRAN COUPE 4dr saloon A prettier 3 Series. Very good, but not better. AAAAC 420d M Sport £35495 181 119 30 420d xDrive SE £33995 181 121 29 420i SE £30125 181 149 29 420i Sport £31660 181 153 29 420i Luxury £32660 181 153 29 420i M Sport £33160 181 153 30 420i xDrive SE £31660 181 161 30 420i xDrive Sport £33160 181 164 30 420i xDrive Luxury £34160 181 164 30 420i xDrive M Sport £34660 181 164 31 428i SE £33520 245 154 33 428i Sport £35020 245 156 34 428i Luxury £36020 245 156 34 428i M Sport £36520 245 156 34 435i Luxury £41870 306 193 36 435i M Sport £42370 306 193 36 418d SE £31695 141 122 23 418d Sport £33195 141 127 24 418d Luxury £34195 141 127 24 418d M Sport £34695 141 127 24 420d SE £32495 181 111 29 420d Sport £33995 181 119 29 420d Luxury £34995 181 119 30 420d xDrive Sport £35495 181 129 30 420d xDrive Luxury £36495 181 129 30 420d xDrive M Sport £36995 181 129 30 430d Luxury £40445 255 139 39 430d M Sport £40945 255 139 40 430d xDrive Luxury £41960 255 145 39 430d xDrive M Sport £42460 255 145 39 435d xDrive Luxury £45245 308 150 41 435d xDrive M Sport £45745 308 150 41 5 SERIES 4dr saloon No longer a handling benchmark. Superb interior AAAAC 530d Luxury £44255 241 139 43 535i M Sport £44745 302 179 42 520i SE £33130 181 149 36 520i Luxury £35965 181 154 37 520i M Sport £35965 181 159 37 528i SE £36695 242 142 40 528i Luxury £39495 242 147 41 528i M Sport £39530 242 152 41 535i Luxury £44690 302 174 42 550i Luxury £57615 402 199 46 550i M Sport £57915 402 206 46 ActiveHybrid 5 SE £47790 335 149 44 ActiveHybrid 5 Luxury £48825 335 159 44 ActiveHybrid 5 M Sport £50625 335 163 44 4.4 V8 M5 £73970 552 232 48 518d SE £30865 141 114 30 518d Luxury £33665 141 119 31 518d M Sport £33665 141 124 31 520d SE £32365 181 114 33 520d Luxury £35165 181 119 34 520d M Sport £35165 181 124 34 525d SE £36980 215 129 39 525d Luxury £39910 215 134 40 525d M Sport £39910 215 139 40 530d SE £41455 241 134 43 530d M Sport £44270 241 144 43

535d Luxury £48920 308 143 45 535d M Sport £48920 308 148 45 5 SERIES TOURING 5dr estate Great overall package. 520d the best AAAAC 518d M Sport £35865 141 127 31 530d Luxury £46470 241 144 43 535d Luxury £51120 308 149 45 535i Luxury £46945 302 179 42 535i M Sport £46945 302 179 42 520i SE £35365 181 157 36 520i Luxury £38165 181 162 37 520i M Sport £38165 181 162 37 528i SE £38895 242 149 40 528i Luxury £41730 242 154 41 528i M Sport £41730 242 154 41 518d SE £33065 141 122 30 518d Luxury £35865 141 127 31 520d SE £34565 181 122 33 520d Luxury £37365 181 127 34 520d M Sport £37365 181 127 34 525d SE £39310 215 136 39 525d Luxury £42125 215 141 40 525d M Sport £42125 215 141 40 530d SE £43655 241 139 43 530d M Sport £46470 241 144 43 535d M Sport £51120 308 149 45 5 SERIES GT 5dr hatch Fine cabin, but only seats four. Poor ride and steering AAABC 530d SE £46965 241 157 43 535i Luxury £49465 302 192 44 535i M Sport £50265 302 192 44 550i Luxury £59515 402 214 46 550i M Sport £60465 402 214 46 520d SE £38045 181 148 33 £40845 181 144 34 520d Luxury 520d M Sport £40845 181 144 34 530d Luxury £48965 241 153 44 530d M Sport £49765 241 153 44 535d Luxury £51885 295 154 46 535d M Sport £52685 295 154 46 7 SERIES 4dr saloon Refined and spacious, but bland. 760 gets sublime V12 AAAAC ActiveHybrid 7 M Sport £71475 459 158 48 740i SE £61680 316 184 46 740Li SE £64680 316 184 46 740i M Sport £66955 316 184 46 740Li M Sport £69955 316 184 47 750i SE £71520 443 199 48 750i M Sport £76795 443 199 49 760Li SE £102025 537 314 50 760Li M Sport £104270 537 314 50 730d SE £58275 255 148 45 730Ld SE £61375 255 148 46 730d M Sport £63550 255 148 46 730Ld M Sport £66650 255 148 46 740d SE £65465 309 149 47 740d M Sport £70740 309 149 48 ActiveHybrid 7 SE £66200 459 158 47 ActiveHybrid 7L SE £69300 459 158 48 ActiveHybrid 7L M Sport £74575 459 158 48 X1 5dr 4x4 Odd SUV best as rear-wheel drive. Good drive, poor cabin finish AAAAC xDrive 25d xLine £32540 215 154 26 xDrive 20i SE £27285 181 176 28 xDrive 20i Sport £28285 181 176 28 xDrive 20i xLine £29285 181 179 28 xDrive 20i M Sport £30285 181 179 28 sDrive 16d SE £24230 114 128 18 sDrive 18d SE £25330 141 128 22 £26330 141 128 22 sDrive 18d Sport sDrive 18d M Sport £28330 141 128 22 xDrive 18d SE £26830 141 144 22 xDrive 18d Sport £27830 141 144 22 xDrive 18d xLine £28830 141 144 22 xDrive 18d M Sport £29830 141 144 22 sDrive 20d Efficient Dynamics £26760 161 119 24 sDrive 20d Eff. Dyn. Business £28160 181 119 24 sDrive 20d SE £26760 181 129 24 sDrive 20d Sport £27760 181 129 25 sDrive 20d M Sport £29760 181 129 25 xDrive 20d SE £28260 181 145 24 xDrive 20d Sport £29260 181 145 25 xDrive 20d xLine £30260 181 145 25 xDrive 20d M Sport £31260 181 145 25 xDrive 25d M Sport £33540 215 154 27 X3 5dr 4x4 New X3 has an appealingly organic drive and practical body AAAAC sDrive 18d SE £31295 141 131 26 xDrive20d SE £33295 181 142 30 xDrive20d M Sport £36295 181 142 31 xDrive20d xLine £34795 181 142 30

xDrive30d SE £40095 255 156 39 xDrive30d M Sport £43095 255 156 40 xDrive30d xLine £41595 255 156 40 xDrive35d M Sport £45695 308 157 43 X4 5dr 4x4 A downsized X6. Respectable enough, but the cheaper X3 is a better option AAABC xDrive20d SE £36895 187 142 31 xDrive20d xLine £38395 187 142 31 xDrive20d M Sport £39895 187 142 31 xDrive30d xLine £45195 255 156 40 xDrive30d M Sport £46695 255 156 40 xDrive35d M Sport £49295 308 157 43 X5 5dr 4x4 Very comfortable and capable . Although the bling M50d should be avoided AAAAC xDrive50i SE £60670 402 224 49 xDrive50i M Sport £64800 402 226 49 X5M £90180 567 258 50 sDrive25d SE £43745 215 149 41 sDrive25d M Sport £47680 215 151 42 xDrive25d SE £46050 215 154 42 xDrive25d M Sport £50750 215 156 42 xDrive30d SE £48850 241 156 44 xDrive30d M Sport £53550 241 158 45 xDrive40d SE £51510 302 157 46 xDrive40d M Sport £56210 302 159 47 M50d £64525 381 173 49 X6 5dr 4x4 The world’s first off-road coupé, but appearance makes it difficult to love AAABC xDrive50i SE £63320 443 225 49 xDrive50i M Sport £67450 443 227 50 X6M £93080 567 258 50 xDrive30d SE £51400 258 157 45 xDrive30d M Sport £56100 258 159 45 xDrive40d SE £54060 313 163 46 xDrive40d M Sport £58760 313 165 47 M50d £67175 381 174 50 Z4 ROADSTER 2dr open Classy roadster. More cruiser than sports car AAABC 2.0 sDrive18i £27740 154 159 33 2.0 sDrive18i M Sport £31625 154 159 34 2.0 sDrive20i £29840 181 159 34 2.0 sDrive20i M Sport £33005 181 159 35 2.0 sDrive28i M Sport £37390 242 159 40 3.0 sDrive35i M Sport £43010 302 219 42 3.0 sDrive35iS DCT £45955 335 211 43 6 SERIES GRAN COUPE 4dr saloon Back door proves a brilliant visual coup AAAAC 640i SE £59430 315 178 47 640i M Sport £63030 315 182 48 650i M Sport £72390 444 206 50 M6 £94750 552 231 50 640d SE £62295 309 147 48 640d M Sport £65930 309 152 49 6 SERIES 2dr coupé Great engines and interior. More GT than sports car AAAAC 640i SE £59430 315 176 47 640i M Sport £63030 315 180 47 650i M Sport £72390 402 206 49 M6 £92350 552 231 50 640d SE £62295 309 143 48 640d M Sport £65895 309 147 48 6 SERIES CONVERTIBLE 2dr open Great engines and interior. More GT than sports car AAAAC 650i M Sport £77990 402 213 50 640i SE £65330 315 179 50 640i M Sport £68630 315 184 50 M6 £97300 552 239 50 640d SE £68195 309 149 50 640d M Sport £71530 309 153 50 I8 2dr coupé The world’s first off-road coupé, but appearance makes it difficult to love AAABC 1.5 £104540 357 49 50 CADILLAC CTS-V 2dr coupé A genuine rival to Europe’s finest supercars AAAAC 6.2 V8 £68957 556 365 50 CTS 4dr saloon Sharp-looking big saloon needs a diesel. CTS-V is excellent AACCC 3.0 V6 E’gnce auto £40897 272 229 44 3.6 V6 AWD Sp. Luxury £46977 307 247 44 3.6 V6 Sp. Luxury £45241 307 241 44 6.2 V8 V £65766 557 365 50 CATERHAM SEVEN 2dr open Pound for pound, still the most compelling way to spend five figures AAAAB 0.7 160 £14995 80 114 1.6 270 £19995 140 2.0 360 £23995 175 2.0 420 £26995 210 -

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NEW CARS A-Z - C5 5dr estate Spacious and comfy. An effective and interesting Mondeo rival AAABC 1.6 HDi 115 VTR £22770 113 125 20 1.6 e-HDi 115 ETG6 VTR+ £24470 107 117 22 2.0 HDi 160 VTR+ £25180 161 133 28 2.0 HDi 160 Excl. £26780 161 133 25 DS3 3dr hatch Jack of all trades, master of none. Nice styling AAABC CHRYSLER 1.2 PureTech 82 DSign £13295 81 104 9 GRAND VOYAGER 5dr mpv Spacious and well 1.2 PureTech 82 DSign Ice £14720 81 107 11 1.2 PureTech 110 DStyle S-S £15995 109 107 19 equipped. Not good to drive AAABC 2.8 CRD SR £30310 161 207 32 1.2 PureTech 110 DStyle Ice S- £17220 109 107 17 £16630 118 150 16 2.8 CRD Ltd £36310 161 207 34 1.6 VTi 120 DStyle auto 1.6 THP 165 DStyle Ice S-S £17790 161 129 26 CITROEN 1.6 THP 165 DSire S-S £18100 161 129 24 £19095 161 129 26 C-ZERO 5dr hatch Well-engineered electric city car. 1.6 THP 165 DSport S-S 1.6 THP 165 Ultra Prestige £20795 161 129 27 Too expensive AAACC £15820 91 95 16 49kW £26216 66 0 28 1.6 e-HDi 90 Air’ DStyle 1.6 e-HDi 90 DStyle Ice £17410 91 95 19 C1 3dr hatch The cheapest of the Aygo triplets. Cute, 1.6 BlueHDi 120 DSire £18220 118 94 25 but noisy and basic AAACC £19295 118 94 24 1.0 VTi 68 Touch £8345 67 95 6 1.6 BlueHDi 120 DSport 1.0 VTi 68 Feel £9595 67 95 6 1.6 BlueHDi 120 Ultra Prestige £20995 118 94 24 1.0 VTi 68 Flair £10285 67 95 7 DS3 CABRIOLET 2dr open Refined soft topper.

1.0 VTi 68 Airscape Feel £10595 67 95 7 Retains its cuteness AAABC 1.0 VTi 68 Flair S-S £10535 67 88 7 1.2 PureTech 110 DStyle S-S £17995 109 107 20 1.0 VTi 68 Airscape Flair S-S £11535 67 88 7 1.2 PureTech 82 DSign £15295 81 112 12 1.2 PureTech 82 Flair £10635 81 99 11 1.6 BlueHDi 120 DSport £21295 118 94 26 C1 5dr hatch The cheapest of the Aygo triplets. Cute, 1.6 THP 165 DSire S-S £20145 161 129 27 1.6 THP 165 DSport S-S £21095 161 129 29 but noisy and basic AAACC £18845 118 154 18 1.0 VTi 68 Feel £9995 67 95 6 1.6 VTi 120 DStyle auto £17935 113 95 20 1.0 VTi 68 Flair £10685 67 95 7 1.6 e-HDi 90 DStyle 1.0 VTi 68 Airscape Feel £10995 67 95 7 DS4 5dr hatch Jack of all trades, master of none. Nice 1.0 VTi 68 Flair S-S £10935 67 88 7 styling AAABC 1.0 VTi 68 Airscape Flair S-S £11935 67 88 7 1.6 e-HDi 115 DSign £19425 113 113 18 1.2 PureTech 82 Flair £11035 81 99 11 1.6 VTi 120 DSign £17855 118 144 14 C3 5dr hatch Comfortable and well-priced but not 1.6 VTi 120 DStyle £19905 118 144 15 1.6 THP 160 DStyle Au £21765 161 178 21 much fun AAACC £23840 197 149 31 1.2 PureTech 82 Selection £13865 81 107 12 1.6 THP 200 DSport £21475 113 113 18 1.6 e-HDi 90 Selection £15740 89 95 18 1.6 e-HDi 115 DStyle £21975 113 114 17 1.0 PureTech 68 VT £11075 67 99 8 1.6 e-HDi 115 DStyle ETG6 £21900 134 130 21 1.0 PureTech 68 VTR+ £12495 67 102 9 2.0 HDi 135 DStyle £22700 161 130 23 1.2 PureTech 82 VTR+ £13515 81 107 12 2.0 HDi 160 DStyle £23700 161 130 24 1.6 VTi 120 Excl. Au £16250 118 150 19 2.0 HDi 160 DSport 1.4 HDi 70 VT £13230 67 99 10 DS5 5dr hatch Design marvel. Shame it doesn’t 1.4 HDi 70 VTR+ £14590 67 101 10 function so well AAABC 1.4 e-HDi 70 VTR+ ETG £15210 67 87 10 1.6 THP 200 DSport £28920 197 155 27 1.6 e-HDi 90 VTR+ £15390 89 95 18 1.6 e-HDi 115 DStyle ETG6 £25890 113 114 18 1.6 e-HDi 90 Excl. £16240 89 95 18 1.6 BlueHDi 120 DSign £23260 113 102 21 C3 PICASSO 5dr mpv Quirky small MPV. Cheap and 1.6 BlueHDi 120 DStyle £25890 113 105 22 2.0 HDi 160 DStyle £26895 161 128 24 useful.

AAAAC 1.4 VTi 95 VT £13080 94 145 10 2.0 HDi 160 DSport £28955 161 128 24 1.6 HDi 90 Excl. £17330 91 107 12 2.0 BlueHDi 180 DSport £31580 178 118 30 1.6 HDi 90 VTR+ £16230 91 107 12 2.0 Hybrid4 200 DSport £33700 200 102 28 1.6 VTi 120 Excl. £17095 118 149 13 2.0 Hybrid4 200 DStyle £31600 200 102 27 1.6 VTi 120 Excl. ETG6 £17815 118 137 13 BERLINGO MULTISPACE 5dr mpv Likeable, 1.6 VTi 120 VTR+ ETG6 £16715 118 137 13 practical van-based MPV AAABC 1.4 VTi 95 VTR+ £15145 94 145 10 1.6 VTi 95 VT £13285 97 155 5 1.6 HDi 115 Excl. £18050 107 119 15 1.6 HDi 75 VTR £14655 74 135 4 C4 5dr hatch Good looking, but lacks the polish of the 1.6 HDi 90 Plus Sp. Ed £15805 89 135 8 latest rivals AAABC 1.6 HDi 90 VTR £15105 89 135 7 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl. ETG6 £20965 110 101 18 1.6 e-HDi 90 VTR ETG6 £15875 89 120 9 1.6 e-HDi 115 VTR+ ETG6 £19565 110 95 18 1.6 HDi 90 XTR £17155 89 135 8 1.4 VTi 95 VTR £14240 94 140 12 1.6 e-HDi 90 XTR ETG6 £17525 89 120 9 1.6 VTi 120 VTR+ £17395 118 143 16 1.6 HDi 115 XTR £17905 107 134 10 1.6 THP 155 Excl. ETG6 £20195 154 148 22 C4 PICASSO 5dr mpv Plushness and an improved 1.6 HDi 90 VTR £16355 91 104 15 dynamic make for a better car AAAAC 1.6 HDi 90 VTR+ £18105 91 104 16 1.6 VTi 120 VTR £17760 118 145 14 1.6 e-HDi 115 VTR+ £18965 110 97 18 1.6 VTi 120 VTR+ £19020 118 145 15 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl. £20365 110 100 18 1.6 THP 155 Excl. £21320 154 139 22 2.0 HDi 150 Excl. £21185 148 130 23 1.6 THP 155 Excl.+ £23720 154 142 22 C4 CACTUS 5dr hatch £18450 91 110 15 Interesting and novel, 1.6 HDi 90 VTR 1.6 HDi 90 VTR+ £19710 91 110 15 but typically flawed to drive AAACC £20410 91 98 15 1.2 PureTech 75 Touch £12990 74 105 9 1.6 e-HDi 90 VTR+ ETG6 £20510 113 105 18 1.2 PureTech 82 Touch £13490 81 105 9 1.6 e-HDi 115 VTR+ £21010 113 104 18 1.2 PureTech 82 Feel £14690 81 105 9 1.6 e-HDi 115 VTR+ ETG6 £21810 113 105 17 1.2 PureTech 82 Flair £16090 81 107 10 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl. £24210 113 105 18 1.2 PureTech 110 Feel S-S £15890 109 107 15 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl.+ £23050 148 102 24 1.2 PureTech 110 Flair S-S £17290 109 107 16 2.0 Blue HDi 150 Excl. £25410 148 105 24 1.6 BlueHDi 100 Touch £15490 99 87 18 2.0 Blue HDi 150 Excl. + 1.6 BlueHDi 100 Feel £16690 99 87 18 GRAND C4 PICASSO 5dr mpv Plushness and an 1.6 BlueHDi 100 Flair £18090 99 89 18 improved dynamic make for a better carAAAAC 1.6 e-HDi 92 Feel ETG6 £16890 89 92 16 1.6 VTi 120 VTR £19460 118 145 13 1.6 e-HDi 92 Flair ETG6 £18290 89 94 16 1.6 VTi 120 VTR+ £20720 118 145 13 1.6 THP 155 Excl. £23020 154 139 21 C5 4dr saloon Spacious and comfy. An effective and 1.6 THP 155 Excl.+ £25420 154 142 22 1.6 e-HDi 90 ETG6 VTR £20850 91 98 15 interesting Mondeo rival AAACC £22110 91 98 15 1.6 HDi 115 VTR £21670 107 125 20 1.6 e-HDi 90 ETG6 VTR+ £22210 113 105 19 1.6 e-HDi 115 ETG6 VTR+ £23370 109 117 22 1.6 e-HDi 115 VTR+ £23510 113 105 18 2.0 HDi 160 VTR+ £24070 161 129 28 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl. £25910 113 105 19 2.0 HDi 160 Excl. £25670 161 129 25 1.6 e-HDi 115 Excl.+ 2.0 Blue HDi 150 Excl. £24750 148 102 24 2.0 620R

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Serious engine for the money AAAAC 6.2 V8 £69810 460 279 50 6.2 V8 Convertible £74410 460 283 50

FORD KA 3dr hatch An agile drive and energetic petrol engine. Wooden ride AAABC 1.2 Grand Prix lll £11445 68 115 5 1.2 Studio Connect £9445 68 115 3 1.2 Studio £8995 68 115 3 1.2 Edge £9945 68 115 3 1.2 Zetec £10695 68 115 3 1.2 Titanium £11995 68 115 3 1.2 Metal £11445 68 115 5 B-MAX 5dr mpv Fiesta dynamics and sliding door access make the B-Max a cut above AAAAC 1.0T EcoBoost 100 Zetec £15495 99 119 9 1.0T EcoBoost 100 Titanium £16695 99 119 10 1.0T EcoBoost 125 Zetec S-S £16095 118 99 13 1.0T EcoBoost 125 Titanium S-S £17295 118 99 13 1.0T EcoBoost 125 Titanium X £18495 118 99 13 1.4 90 Studio £13095 89 139 7 1.4 90 Zetec £14895 89 139 8 1.6 105 Zetec Powershift £16595 103 149 10 1.6 105 Titanium Powershift £17795 103 149 11 1.5 TDCi 75 Zetec £16295 74 109 8 1.6 TDCi 95 Zetec £16795 94 104 10 1.6 TDCi 95 Titanium £17995 94 104 11 FIESTA 3dr hatch Stylish and wonderfully engaging.

The best supermini AAAAC 1.6 105 Zetec Powershift £15045 103 138 12 1.0 80 Zetec S-S £13695 79 99 6 1.0 80 Titanium S-S £14695 79 99 7 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £14195 99 99 11 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £15195 99 99 11 1.0T 100 E’boost TitaniumX S-S £16445 99 99 11 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £15695 123 99 15 1.0T 125 E’boost TitaniumX S-S £16945 123 99 16 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec S S-S £15945 123 99 15 1.25 60 Studio £10145 59 120 3 1.25 60 Style £11895 59 120 4 1.25 82 Style £12395 80 120 7 1.25 82 Zetec £13195 80 120 7 1.6 105 Titanium Powershift £16045 103 138 12 1.6T 180 Ecoboost ST £17545 180 138 30 1.6T 180 Ecoboost ST2 £18545 180 138 30 1.6T 180 Ecoboost ST3 £19545 180 138 30 1.5 TDCi 75 Style £13995 74 98 8 1.5 TDCi 75 Zetec £14795 74 98 9 1.5 TDCi 75 Titanium £15795 74 98 9 1.6 TDCi 95 Style ECOnetic S-S £14945 94 87 11 1.6 TDCi 95 Zetec ECOnetic S-S £15495 94 87 12 1.6 TDCi 95 Zetec S £16145 94 95 12 1.6 TDCi 95 Titanium ECOnetic £16495 94 87 12 1.6 TDCi 95 Titanium X £17295 94 95 13 FIESTA 5dr hatch Stylish and wonderfully engaging.

The best supermini AAAAC 1.25 82 Style £12995 80 120 7 1.6 105 Titanium Powershift £16645 103 138 12 1.6 105 Zetec Powershift £15645 103 138 12 1.0 80 Zetec S-S £14295 79 99 6 1.0 80 Titanium S-S £15295 79 99 7 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £14795 99 99 11 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £15795 99 99 11 1.0T 100 E’boost TitaniumX S-S £17045 99 99 11 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £16295 123 99 15 1.0T 125 E’boost TitaniumX S-S £17545 123 99 16 1.25 60 Style £12495 59 120 4 1.25 82 Zetec £13795 80 120 7 1.5 TDCi 75 Style £14595 74 98 8 1.5 TDCi 75 Zetec £15395 74 98 9 1.5 TDCi 75 Titanium £16395 74 98 9 1.6 TDCi 95 Style ECOnetic S-S £15545 94 87 11 1.6 TDCi 95 Zetec ECOnetic S-S £16095 94 87 12 1.6 TDCi 95 Titanium ECOnetic £17095 94 87 12 1.6 TDCi 95 Titanium X £17895 94 95 13 ECOSPORT 5dr hatch Pumped up Fiesta okay, but developing world origins show through AAACC 1.0T Ecoboost 125 Titanium £15995 123 125 11 1.0T Ecoboost 125 Titanium X £16995 123 125 11 1.5 112 Titanium £14995 90 149 10 1.5 112 Titanium X £15995 90 149 10 1.5 TDCi 91 Titanium £16495 90 120 10 1.5 TDCi 91 Titanium X £17495 90 120 10 FOCUS 5dr hatch Still very good to drive, and made more appealing by new cabin AAAAC 1.6 125 Zetec S £21095 123 146 14 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Style £17595 99 105 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec £18595 99 105 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium £20095 99 105 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium X £22095 99 105 10 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec £19095 123 108 14 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec S £20345 123 108 14 £20595 123 108 14 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium X £22595 123 108 14

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£27110 148 105 25 1.3 MultiJet Lounge £14840 94 97 15 1.3 MultiJet S £14990 94 97 14 1.3 MultiJet Cult £15990 94 97 14 500 CONVERTIBLE 2dr open Super desirable, cute city car. Cab a better drive than hatchAAAAC 0.9 TwinAir 105 GQ £18170 103 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 105 Lounge S-S £16870 103 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 105 S £17020 84 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 85 Colour Therapy £14970 84 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 85 GQ £17690 84 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 85 S £16540 84 92 15 1.2 Colour Therapy £13770 68 113 10 1.2 GQ £16490 68 113 10 1.2 S £15240 68 113 10 1.3 MultiJet GQ £18890 94 97 18 1.3 MultiJet S £17640 94 97 18 1.4 16v Turbo T-Jet Abarth £16005 133 155 27 0.9 TwinAir 85 Lounge S-S £16390 84 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 85 Cult £17540 84 92 15 0.9 TwinAir 105 Cult £18020 103 92 15 1.2 Pop S-S £13690 68 113 9 1.2 Lounge S-S £15090 68 113 10 1.2 Cult £16240 68 113 10 1.3 MultiJet Lounge £17490 94 97 18 1.3 MultiJet Cult £18640 94 97 18 500L 5dr mpv A costly option, but has the style to fill out some of its missing substance AAABC 1.4 95 Pop £13390 94 145 10 0.9 Twinair Pop Star £16690 103 112 11 0.9 TwinAir Lounge £18090 103 112 11 0.9 TwinAir Trekking £18790 103 119 11 1.4 95 Pop Star £15550 94 145 10 1.4 95 Lounge £16950 94 145 10 1.4 95 Trekking £17650 94 149 8 1.4 120 Pop Star £17195 118 159 10 1.4 120 Lounge £18595 118 159 10 FERRARI 1.4 120 Trekking £19295 118 159 10 1.3 Multijet 85 Pop Star £17040 83 110 8 F12 2dr coupé Proper V12 Ferrari with serious 1.3 Multijet 85 Lounge £18440 83 110 9 exclusivity and appeal AAAAA £19140 83 114 7 6.3 V12 £239352 730 350 50 1.3 Multijet 85 Trekking £18040 103 117 17 FF 2dr coupé Four-door Ferrari estate has appeal but 1.6 Multijet 105 Pop Star 1.6 Multijet 105 Lounge £19440 103 117 18 lacks classic DNA AAAAC £20140 103 122 15 6.3 V12 £227077 651 360 50 1.6 Multijet 105 Trekking £18540 118 120 17 CALIFORNIA 2dr open Sleek, comfortable and fast. 1.6 Multijet 120 Pop Star 1.6 Multijet 120 Lounge £19940 118 120 17 Now with turbocharger AAAAC £20640 118 120 17 4.3 V8 £152086 483 270 50 1.6 Multijet 120 Trekking 3.9 V8 T £154490 552 250 50 500L MPW 5dr mpv As above but with seven seat 458 2dr coupé The complete supercar. Calm ride, flexibility in its more expensive format AAABC explosive performance 1.6 MultiJet 120 Lounge 7st £21380 118 117 17 AAAAA 4.5 V8 Italia £178461 570 307 50 1.6 MultiJet 120 Pop Star 7st £19880 118 117 17 4.5 V8 Speciale £208090 597 275 50 0.9 TwinAir 105 Pop Star 7st £17330 103 112 11 £18830 103 112 11 458 SPIDER 2dr open The complete supercar. Minus 0.9 TwinAir 105 Lounge 7st 1.4 95 Pop Star 5st £15840 94 145 9 roof. A world-class head turner AAAAA £17340 94 145 9 4.5 V8 £198906 570 275 50 1.4 95 Lounge 5st 1.3 MultiJet 85 Pop Star 7st £18380 83 110 8 FIAT 1.3 MultiJet 85 Lounge 7st £19880 83 110 9 1.6 MultiJet 105 Pop Star 7st £19380 103 117 17 PANDA 5dr hatch Cheap, practical and very nearly 1.6 MultiJet 105 Lounge 7st £20880 103 117 17 spot on AAAAC 0.9 TwinAir 85 4x4 Antarctica £14995 84 105 6 500X 5dr hatch Familiar styling works rather well as 0.9 Twinair 85 Trekking £13075 84 105 6 a crossover. Drives okay, too AAABC 1.3 MultiJet 75 4x4 Antarctica £15995 74 125 7 1.4 MultiAir 140 Pop Star £17595 138 139 0.9 Twinair 85 Easy £11375 84 99 7 1.4 MultiAir 140 Lounge £19345 138 - 0.9 Twinair 85 Lounge £11875 84 99 7 1.4 MultiAir 140 Cross £18595 138 - 0.9 Twinair 85 4x4 £14575 84 114 7 1.4 MultiAir 140 Cross Plus £20345 138 - 1.2 Pop £9375 68 120 3 1.3 MultiJet 95 Pop Star £18095 94 109 £19095 118 - 1.2 Easy £10175 68 120 4 1.6 MultiJet 120 Pop Star £20845 118 - 1.2 Lounge £10675 68 120 3 1.6 MultiJet 120 Lounge £20095 118 - 1.3 MultiJet 75 Pop £11575 74 104 7 1.6 MultiJet 120 Cross £21845 118 - 1.3 Multijet 75 Easy £12375 74 104 7 1.6 MultiJet 120 Cross Plus £24095 118 147 1.3 Multijet 75 Lounge £12875 74 104 7 2.0 MultiJet 140 Cross AWD 1.3 Multijet 75 Trekking £14075 74 109 7 2.0 MltiJet 140 Cross Plus AWD £25845 118 147 1.3 Multijet 75 4x4 £15575 74 125 7 PUNTO 3dr hatch MultiAir tech improves appeal and 500 3dr hatch Super desirable, cute city car. Pleasant, economy. Still heavily dated though AAACC if not involving, to drive 1.2 8v Easy £11275 68 126 6 AAABC £11775 68 126 6 0.9 TwinAir 105 GQ £15550 103 92 10 1.2 8v GBT £10175 68 126 6 0.9 TwinAir 105 Lounge £14220 103 92 10 1.2 8v Pop £13775 85 90 13 0.9 TwinAir 105 S £14370 103 92 10 1.3 85 Multijet Easy £11685 76 132 8 0.9 TwinAir 85 GQ £15070 84 99 10 1.4 8v Easy £12185 76 132 8 1.2 Colour Therapy £11220 68 113 9 1.4 8v GBT £14275 85 90 13 1.2 GQ £13670 68 113 9 1.3 85 Multijet GBT 1.3 MultiJet GQ £16070 94 97 14 PUNTO 5dr hatch MultiAir tech improves appeal and 0.9 TwinAir 85 Lounge £13740 84 92 10 economy. Still heavily dated though AAACC 0.9 TwinAir 85 S £13890 84 92 12 1.2 8v Easy £11875 68 126 6 0.9 TwinAir 85 Colour Therapy £12420 84 99 10 1.2 8v GBT £12375 68 126 6 0.9 TwinAir Cult £14890 84 99 10 1.2 8v Pop £10775 68 126 6 0.9 TwinAir 105 Cult £15370 103 92 10 1.4 8v Easy £12285 76 132 8 1.2 Pop £10690 68 113 5 1.4 8v GBT £12785 76 132 8 1.2 Lounge £12440 68 113 6 1.3 85 Multijet Easy £14375 85 90 13 1.2 S £12590 68 113 9 1.3 85 Multijet GBT £14875 85 90 13 1.2 Cult £13590 68 113 9 1.4 T-Jet Abarth £14255 133 155 26 DACIA SANDERO 5dr hatch A clever budget prospect. But its limitations are unavoidable AAABC 0.9 TCe Ambiance £7595 89 116 6 0.9 TCe Laureate £8795 89 116 7 1.2 Access £5995 74 135 2 1.2 Ambiance £6795 74 135 2 1.2 Laureate £7995 74 135 2 1.5 dCi Ambiance £8595 89 99 8 1.5 dCi Laureate £9795 89 99 10 SANDERO STEPWAY 5dr hatch More expensive - but still limited AAABC 0.9 TCe Ambiance £8395 89 125 0.9 TCe Laureate £9995 89 125 1.5 dCi Ambiance £9395 89 105 1.5 dCi Laureate £10995 89 105 LOGAN MCV 5dr estate Lacks its stablemates charm. Certainly retains the cheap AAACC 0.9 Ambiance £8595 89 116 9 0.9 Laureate £9795 89 116 11 1.2 Access £6995 74 135 4 1.2 Ambiance £7795 74 135 4 1.2 Laureate £8995 74 135 5 1.5 dCi Ambiance £9595 84 99 11 1.5 dCi Laureate £10795 84 99 12 DUSTER 5dr 4x4 Cheap, but cheerfully robust.

Surprisingly convincing presence AAAAC 1.6 16v 105 Access 2WD £9495 103 165 6 1.6 16v 105 Access 4WD £11495 103 185 5 1.5 dCi 110 Ambiance 2WD £11995 106 130 10 1.5 dCi 110 Ambiance 4WD £13995 107 135 10 1.5 dCi 110 Laureate 2WD £13495 106 130 11 1.5 dCi 110 Laureate 4WD £15495 107 135 10

AUTOCAR TOP FIVES Hot hatches

1.5T 150 Ecoboost Zetec S £20845 148 137 14 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Titanium £21095 148 137 14 1.5T 182 Ecoboost Titanium X £23820 180 137 14 1.6 85 Studio £13995 84 136 7 1.6 105 Style £17095 103 136 11 1.6 125 Style auto £18845 123 146 14 1.6 125 Zetec £19845 123 146 14 1.6 125 Titanium auto £21345 123 146 14 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST £22495 247 159 34 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST-2 £23995 247 159 35 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST-3 £26295 247 159 36 1.5 TDCi 95 Style £18295 94 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Zetec £19795 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Zetec S £21045 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Titanium £21295 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Titanium X £23295 118 98 11 1.6 TDCi 95 Style £18195 94 109 11 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec £19695 114 109 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec S £20945 114 109 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium £21195 114 109 16 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium £22635 148 109 16 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium X £24635 148 109 2.0 TDCi 185 ST £22495 178 110 34 2.0 TDCi 185 ST-2 £23995 178 110 35 2.0 TDCi 185 ST-3 £26295 178 110 36 FOCUS 5dr estate Well-mannered and comfortable.

An Octavia carries more AAABC 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Style £18695 99 109 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium £21195 99 109 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium X £23195 99 109 10 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec £19695 99 109 10 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium £21695 123 110 14 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium X £23695 123 110 14 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec £20195 123 110 14 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec S £21445 123 110 14 1.5 TDCi 120 Titanium £22395 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Titanium X £24395 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Zetec £20895 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 120 Zetec S £22145 118 98 11 1.5 TDCi 95 Style £19395 94 98 11 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Titanium £22195 148 128 14 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Zetec S £21945 148 128 14 1.5T 182 Ecoboost Titanium X £24920 180 128 14 1.6 105 Style £18180 103 139 11 1.6 125 Style auto £19945 123 146 14 1.6 125 Titanium auto £22445 123 146 14 1.6 125 Zetec £20945 123 146 14 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium £22295 114 109 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec £20795 114 109 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec S £22045 114 109 16 1.6 TDCi 95 Style £19295 94 109 11 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium £23735 148 109 16 2.0 TDCi 185 ST £23595 178 110 34 2.0 TDCi 185 ST-2 £25095 178 110 34 2.0 TDCi 185 ST-3 £27395 178 110 36 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST £23595 247 159 34 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST-2 £25095 247 159 35 2.0T 250 Ecoboost ST-3 £27395 247 159 36 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium X £25735 148 109 16 MONDEO 5dr hatch Still the best big saloon.

Practical, comfortable, rewarding AAAAC 1.5T EcoBoost 160 Zetec £21345 158 134 23 1.5T EcoBoost 160 Titanium £22545 158 134 23 2.0T EcoBoost 240 Titanium £26045 237 169 1.6 TDCi 115 Style £21095 113 94 17 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec £22095 113 94 17 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium £23295 113 94 17 2.0 TDCi 150 Style £21845 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Zetec £22845 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium £23795 148 115 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium Econetic £24045 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 180 Titanium £24545 178 115 27 MONDEO 5dr estate A vast and enjoyable estate.

Reasonably priced.

AAAAC 1.5T Ecoboost 160 Titanium £23780 158 134 23 1.5T Ecoboost 160 Zetec £22580 158 134 23 1.6 TDCi 115 Style £22345 113 94 17 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium £24545 113 94 17 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec £23345 113 94 17 2.0 TDCi 150 Style £23095 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium £25045 148 115 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium Econetic £25295 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 150 Zetec £24095 148 107 23 2.0 TDCi 180 Titanium £25795 178 115 27 2.0T Ecoboost 240 Titanium £27295 237 169 KUGA 5dr 4x4 Bigger Kuga has taken a stylistic step backwards, but the strengths remain AAAAC 2.0 TDCi 180 Titanium X Sport £32045 177 135 22 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Zetec 2WD £21000 148 143 20 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Titanium £22645 148 143 20 1.5T 150 Ecoboost Titanium X £25395 148 143 20

1

Renault Mégane 275 Trophy

From £27,000 Turning the Mégane into a 271bhp world-beater might just be Renaultsport’s crowning achievement. Stellar car. AAAAB

2

Honda Civic Type R

3

Ford Focus ST

4

Seat Leon Cupra 280

5

Volkswagen Golf GTI

From £30,000 Just about as powerful as front-drive can meaningfully get. Not as adjustable as the Trophy but savagely capable. AAAAB

From £22,000 If you’re looking for a better-value hot hatch, the latest ST is still the benchmark. Agile, supple and practical. AAAAB

From £27,000 Quickest Leon yet easily knocks the Golf GTI into touch. More power and sparklier diff response are the keys. AAAAC

From £27,000 Overshadowed by the better Leon (and the much faster Golf R), but the GTI is still a touchstone. Quality in spades. AAAAC

ROAD TEST RESULTS

2.0 Blue HDi 150 Excl.+

Make and Model

CO2 g/km

Insurance group

Bhp

Price

Make and Model

Facts, figures, from the best road tests

1.5T 150 Titanium X Sport £28345 148 143 20 1.5T 182 Ecoboost Zetec AWD £25160 180 171 21 1.5T 182 Ecoboost Titanium AWD £26795 180 171 21 1.5T 182 Ecoboost Titanium X A £29545 180 171 21 1.5T 182 Ebst Titanium X Sport £32495 180 171 21 2.0 TDCi 150 Zetec 2WD £22695 148 122 20 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium 2WD £24345 148 122 20 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium X 2WD £27095 148 122 20 2.0 TDCi 150 Titanium X Sport £30045 148 122 20 2.0 TDCi 150 Zetec AWD £24195 148 135 20 2.0 TDCi 180 Titanium AWD £26345 177 135 22 2.0 TDCi 180 Titanium X AWD £29095 177 135 22 C-MAX 5dr mpv As fun to drive as it is easy to live with

AAAAC

1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec S-S 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec S-S 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium S-S 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium S-S 1.0T 125 E’boost Titanium X SS 1.6 105 Zetec 1.6T 150 Ecoboost Titanium S-S 1.6T 182 E’boost Titanium X SS 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium X

£18695 99 117 10 £19195 123 117 13 £20195 99 117 10 £20695 123 117 13 £22695 123 117 14 £17655 103 149 11 £20855 148 144 19 £23605 180 144 22 £19150 114 117 16 £20650 114 117 16 £22650 114 117 16 2.0 TDCi 140 Titanium £21725 138 129 20 2.0 TDCi 163 Titanium X £24225 161 129 22 GRAND C-MAX 5dr mpv Fun and practical small seven seater AAAAB 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £20295 99 119 10 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £20795 123 119 13 1.0T 100 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £21795 99 119 10 1.0T 125 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £22295 123 119 13 1.0T 125 E’boost Titanium X SS £24295 99 119 14 1.6T 150 Ecoboost Titanium S-S £22250 148 149 19 1.6T 182 E’boost Titanium X SS £24950 180 149 22 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec £20745 114 124 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium £22045 114 124 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Titanium X £24045 114 124 16 2.0 TDCi 140 Titanium £23250 138 134 20 2.0 TDCi 163 Titanium X £25750 161 134 22 S-MAX 5dr mpv Proof that MPV’s need not be boring or ungainly. Still the benchmark AAAAC 1.6T 160 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £23310 158 159 18 1.6 160 Eco T’nium S-S £25060 158 159 19 2.0 203 Ecoboost Titanium auto£26735 200 189 22 2.0 240 Tit. X Sp. Au £31485 237 194 27 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec S-S £24110 114 139 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Eco T’ium S-S £25860 114 139 17 2.0 TDCi 140 Zetec £24295 138 139 17 2.0 TDCi 140 Titanium £26045 138 139 18 2.0 TDCi 163 Titanium £26645 161 139 19 2.0 TDCi 163 Tit. X Sp. £30395 161 139 21 2.2 TDCi 200 Titanium £27870 197 174 26 2.2 TDCi 200 Tit. X Sp. £31620 197 174 26 GALAXY 5dr mpv Huge seven-seat MPV. Easy to place on the road. Not cheap AAAAC 2.2 TDCi 200 Titanium X £32875 197 179 27 1.6 160 Ecoboost Zetec S-S £25670 158 167 18 1.6 160 Eco T’ium S-S £27570 158 167 18 1.6 160 Eco T’niumX S-S £30070 158 167 18 2.0 203 Ecoboost Titanium auto£29235 200 189 24 2.0 203 Ecoboost Titan X auto £31735 200 189 25 1.6 TDCi 115 Zetec S-S £26460 114 139 16 1.6 TDCi 115 Eco T’nium S-S £28360 114 139 17 1.6 TDCi 115 Eco Tit. X S-S £30860 114 139 18 2.0 TDCi 140 Zetec £26645 138 139 20 2.0 TDCi 140 Titanium £28545 138 139 20 2.0 TDCi 140 Titanium X £31045 138 139 21 2.0 TDCi 163 Titanium £29145 161 139 22 2.0 TDCi 163 Titanium X £31645 161 139 23 2.2 TDCi 200 Titanium £30375 197 179 26

CIVIC TOURER 5dr estate Versatile, comfortable and frugal, only price marks its scorecard AAAAC 1.6 i-DTEC EX Plus £26140 118 103 16 1.6 i-DTEC S £19755 118 99 15 1.6 i-DTEC SE Plus £21570 118 99 15 1.6 i-DTEC SE Plus-Nav £22180 118 99 15 1.6 i-DTEC S-Nav £20365 118 99 15 1.6 i-DTEC SR £24340 118 103 16 1.8 i-VTEC EX Plus £24935 140 149 15 1.8 i-VTEC S £18650 140 146 13 1.8 i-VTEC SE Plus £20565 140 149 14 1.8 i-VTEC SE Plus-Nav £21175 140 149 14 1.8 i-VTEC S-Nav £19260 140 146 14 1.8 i-VTEC SR £23135 140 149 14 ACCORD 4dr saloon Comfortable interior. Fiddly dash and forgettable drive AAABC 2.0 i-VTEC ES £23200 154 159 23 2.0 i-VTEC ES GT £24120 154 159 24 2.0 i-VTEC ES GT Nav £25320 154 159 24 2.0 i-VTEC EX £26580 154 162 24 2.4 i-VTEC EX £27890 198 199 26 2.4 i-VTEC EX ADAS £30290 198 199 27 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES £25400 148 138 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES GT £26320 148 138 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES GT Nav £27520 148 138 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 EX £28795 148 141 25 2.2 i-DTEC 150 EX ADAS £31195 148 141 26 2.2 i-DTEC 180 Type S £31435 177 147 28 2.2 i-DTEC 180 Type S ADAS £33685 177 147 29 ACCORD TOURER 5dr estate As above but more desirable and useful AAABC 2.0 i-VTEC ES £24680 154 163 23 2.0 i-VTEC ES GT £25655 154 163 24 2.0 i-VTEC ES GT Nav £26855 154 163 24 2.4 i-VTEC EX £29550 198 201 26 2.4 i-VTEC EX ADAS £31950 198 201 27 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES £26895 148 143 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES GT £27870 148 143 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 ES GT Nav £29070 148 143 24 2.2 i-DTEC 150 EX £30330 148 146 25 2.2 i-DTEC 150 EX ADAS £32730 148 146 26 2.2 i-DTEC 180 Type S £32925 177 150 28 2.2 i-DTEC 180 Type S ADAS £35175 177 150 29 HR-V 5dr hatch Cleverly packaged and comfortable crossover. Bland performance though AAABC 1.5 i-VTEC EX £23195 128 - 1.5 i-VTEC S £17995 128 - 1.5 i-VTEC SE £19745 128 - 1.5 i-VTEC SE Navi £20355 128 - 1.6 i-DTEC S £19745 118 - 1.6 i-DTEC SE £21495 118 - 1.6 i-DTEC SE Navi £22105 118 - 1.6 i-DTEC EX £24945 118 - CR-V 5dr 4x4 The CR-V soldiers on. But it’s hemmed in by cleverer competition AAABC 1.6 i-DTEC 120 SE-Nav 2WD £26740 118 115 22 1.6 i-DTEC 120 S-Nav 2WD £24300 118 115 23 1.6 i-DTEC 120 SR 2WD £28495 118 119 23 2.0 i-VTEC S 2WD £22345 154 168 22 2.0 i-VTEC S-Nav 2WD £23245 154 168 22 2.0 i-VTEC SE 2WD £24515 154 168 22 2.0 i-VTEC SE-Nav 2WD £25685 154 168 22 2.0 i-VTEC SE £25615 154 173 22 2.0 i-VTEC SE-Nav £26785 154 173 22 2.0 i-VTEC SR £28595 154 177 23 2.0 i-VTEC EX £30440 154 177 23 1.6 i-DTEC 120 S 2WD £23400 118 115 22 1.6 i-DTEC 120 SE 2WD £25570 118 115 22 1.6 i-DTEC 160 SE £27570 158 129 26 1.6 i-DTEC 160 SE-Nav £28740 158 129 26 1.6 i-DTEC 160 SR £30625 158 133 27 1.6 i-DTEC 160 EX £32470 158 133 27

HYUNDAI GINETTA G40 2dr coupé Road-legal race car with stripped-out I10 5dr hatch Second gen i10 still close to the best. charm to spare Mature drive, spacious cabin, low price AAAAC AAAAC R £29950 175 181 - 1.0 S £8705 65 108 1 1.0 S Air £9370 65 108 1 HONDA 1.0 SE £9770 65 108 1 JAZZ 5dr hatch Great packaging makes this a 1.0 SE Blue Drive £10020 65 98 1 1.0 Premium £10470 65 108 1 versatile, if not thrilling supermini AAABC £10270 86 114 4 1.2 i-VTEC SE £13395 89 123 14 1.2 SE £10970 86 114 4 1.2 i-VTEC SE-T £14390 89 123 14 1.2 Premium 1.4 i-VTEC ES Plus £14895 99 129 19 I20 5dr hatch Very good value hatch. Fun a 1.4 i-VTEC ES Plus-T £15890 99 129 19 by-product; practicality mostly spot on AAAAC 1.4 i-VTEC Si-T £15990 99 129 16 1.2 75 S £10695 76 112 5 1.2 i-VTEC S £11695 89 123 13 1.2 75 S Air £11445 76 112 5 1.2 i-VTEC S A-C £12545 89 123 13 1.2 84 SE £12725 84 119 6 1.2 i-VTEC S-T £12690 89 123 13 1.2 84 Premium £13725 84 119 6 1.2 i-VTEC S-T A-C £13540 89 123 13 1.2 84 Premium SE £14725 84 119 6 1.3 IMA Hybrid HE £17150 97 104 16 1.4 100 SE £13325 98 127 10 1.3 IMA Hybrid HE-T £18145 97 104 16 1.4 100 Premium £14325 98 127 10 1.3 IMA Hybrid HS £17650 97 104 16 1.4 100 Premium SE £15325 98 127 10 1.3 IMA Hybrid HS-T £18645 97 104 16 1.1 CRDi 75 S Blue £12445 74 84 6 1.3 IMA Hybrid HX £19250 97 104 16 1.1 CRDi 75 SE £14225 74 103 6 1.3 IMA Hybrid HX-T £20245 97 104 17 1.4 CRDi 90 SE £14725 89 106 11 1.4 i-VTEC EX £15995 99 129 16 1.4 CRDi 90 Premium £15725 89 106 12 1.4 i-VTEC EXL £17195 99 129 16 1.4 CRDi 90 Premium SE £16725 89 106 12 1.4 i-VTEC EX-T £16990 99 129 16 I30 5dr hatch As good as we’ve come to expect, but 1.4 i-VTEC EXL-T £18190 99 129 16 not one inch better AAABC 1.4 i-VTEC Si £14995 99 129 16 1.4 100 S £15195 98 138 7 CIVIC 5dr hatch A real contender, but the lack of rear 1.4 100 SE £16495 98 138 7 1.6 120 SE auto £17895 118 158 9 legroom is a hinderance AAABC £20295 118 145 9 1.4 i-VTEC S £15975 99 129 5 1.6 120 Premium £17195 109 94 11 1.4 i-VTEC S-Nav £16815 99 129 5 1.6 CRDi 110 Blue Drive S £18495 109 94 11 1.6 i-DTEC EX Plus £25140 118 98 16 1.6 CRDi 110 Blue Drive SE 1.6 i-DTEC S £18755 118 94 15 1.6 CRDi 136 Blue Drive Premiu £22295 134 102 11 1.6 i-DTEC SE Plus £20570 118 94 15 I30 TOURER 5dr estate As good as we’ve come 1.6 i-DTEC SE Plus-Nav £21180 118 94 15 to expect, but not one inch better AAABC 1.6 i-DTEC S-Nav £19365 118 94 15 1.6 120 S £16895 118 145 9 1.6 i-DTEC SR £23140 118 94 16 1.6 120 SE £18195 118 145 9 1.8 i-VTEC EX Plus £23935 99 145 15 1.6 CRDi 110 Blue Drive S £18295 109 94 11 1.8 i-VTEC S £17635 140 137 13 1.6 CRDi 136 Blue Drive SE £19595 134 102 11 1.8 i-VTEC SE Plus £19565 99 145 14 I40 4dr saloon Useful, inoffensive and well-priced. No 1.8 i-VTEC SE Plus-Nav £20175 99 145 14 fireworks here AAABC 1.8 i-VTEC S-Nav £18245 140 137 14 1.7 CRDi 115 B’Drive Premium £23485 114 113 13 £22135 99 145 14 1.7 CRDi 115 B’Drive Style 1.8 i-VTEC SR £21205 114 113 13 1.8 i-VTEC Sport £19615 99 145 14 1.7 CRDi 115 B’Drive Active £19105 114 113 12 1.8 i-VTEC Sport-Nav £20225 99 145 14 1.7 CRDi 136 B’Drive Active £19905 134 119 16 1.6 i-DTEC Sport £20820 118 98 15 1.7 CRDi 136 B’Drive Style £22005 134 119 16 1.6 i-DTEC Sport-Nav £21430 118 98 15 1.7 CRDi 136 B’Drive Premium £24405 134 119 17

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I40 TOURER 5dr estate Useful, inoffensive and well-priced. No fireworks here AAABC 1.7 CRDi 115 B’Drive Style £22455 114 113 13 1.7 CRDi 115 Blue Active £20355 114 113 12 1.7 CRDi 136 B’Drive Active £21155 134 119 16 1.7 CRDi 136 Blue Style £23255 134 119 16 1.7 CRDi 136 B’Drive Premium £25655 134 119 17 IX20 5dr hatch Usable high-roofed hatch, but short on flair AAABC 1.6 CRDi 115 Active Blue Drive £15385 114 117 13 1.6 CRDi 115 Style Blue Drive £16335 114 117 13 1.4 Class £12515 89 140 7 1.4 Active £13665 89 140 8 1.4 Style £14615 89 140 8 1.6 Active Au £15010 123 154 10 1.6 Style Au £15960 123 154 10 1.4 CRDi 90 Class £13835 89 119 9 IX35 5dr 4x4 Classy, roomy cabin, predictable handling. Very competitive AAABC 1.6 GDi S 2WD £17150 133 158 14 1.6 GDi S B’Drive 2WD ISG £17330 133 149 14 1.6 GDi SE 2WD £18750 133 158 14 1.6 GDi SE B’Drive 2WD ISG £18930 133 149 14 1.6 GDi SE Nav 2WD £19800 133 158 14 1.6 GDi SE Nav B’Drive 2WD ISG £19980 133 149 14 1.7 CRDi SE Nav 2WD £21300 114 139 14 1.7 CRDi Premium 2WD £23000 114 139 14 1.7 CRDi Prem’Panorama 2WD £23800 114 139 14 1.7 CRDi S 2WD £18650 114 139 14 1.7 CRDi SE 2WD £20250 114 139 14 2.0 CRDi Premium 136 4WD £25900 134 149 18 2.0 CRDi Prem’ Panorama 4WD £26700 134 149 18 2.0 CRDi SE 136 4WD £23150 134 149 18 2.0 CRDi SE Nav 136 4WD £24200 134 149 18 SANTA FE 5dr 4x4 An injection of class has enhanced the Santa Fe’s easygoing appeal AAAAC 2.2 CRDi SE 4WD 5st £27995 194 159 19 2.2 CRDi SE 4WD 7st £29145 194 159 19 2.2 CRDi Premium 4WD 5st £30595 194 159 19 2.2 CRDi Premium 4WD 7st £31900 194 159 19 2.2 CRDi Premium SE 4WD 7st £35395 194 159 20 INFINITI Q50 4dr saloon Credible compact saloon competitor with some novel touches AAABC 3.5 S Hybrid Sport AWD £42340 359 144 42 2.0t Premium £32455 208 146 40 2.0t Premium Tech £38955 208 146 40 2.0t Sport £34825 208 146 40 2.0t Sport Tech £39725 208 146 40 3.5 S Hybrid Sport £40695 359 144 42 3.5 S Hybrid Sport Tech £45595 359 144 42 3.5 S Hybrid Sport Tech AWD £47240 359 159 42 2.2d SE £28650 168 114 29 2.2d Premium £31050 168 114 30 2.2d Premium Tech £37550 168 114 30 2.2d Sport £33420 168 118 30 2.2d Sport Tech £38320 168 118 30 Q60 2dr coupé High-class coupe. Refined, potent and entertaining AAAAC 3.7 V6 Q60 GT £36790 315 246 45 3.7 V6 Q60 S £38680 315 246 45 3.7 V6 Q60 S Premium £41870 315 246 45 Q60 COUPE CABRIOLET 2dr open Desirable, enjoyable coupe-cabriolet. Poor residualsAAACC 3.7 V6 Q60 GT Premium auto £45740 315 264 48 Q70 4dr saloon Pleasant, well-equipped big saloon

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3.5 Hybrid Premium £43250 235 145 45 3.5 Hybrid Premium Tech £47350 235 145 45 3.7 Sport Tech £44850 315 145 45 2.2d Premium £33400 168 129 46 2.2d Premium Tech £37500 168 129 46 2.2d Sport £36600 168 129 46 2.2d Sport Tech £38950 168 129 46 QX50 5dr 4x4 Focused on-road SUV. Drives well, very little interior space AAACC 3.7 V6 QX GT £38980 315 265 44 3.7 V6 QX GT Premium £42580 315 265 45 3.0d £34490 235 224 43 3.0d GT £38445 235 224 44 3.0d GT Premium £42045 235 224 44 QX70 5dr 4x4 Big, powerful SUV. None of the finesse of the X5 or Range Rover AAACC 3.7 V6 GT £43250 315 282 49 3.7 V6 GT Premium £47700 315 282 49 3.7 V6 S £45350 315 282 49 3.7 V6 S Premium £49800 315 282 49 5.0 V8 S Premium £54750 385 307 49 3.0d GT £43100 235 225 49 3.0d GT Premium £47550 235 225 49 3.0d S £45200 235 225 49 3.0d S Premium £49650 235 225 49 JAGUAR XE 4dr saloon A long time coming, but worth the wait.

Drives better than a 3 Series. Nuff saidAAAAB 2.0i 200 SE £26995 197 179 2.0i 200 Prestige £27995 197 179 2.0i 200 R-Sport £29745 197 179 2.0i 240 R-Sport £33095 237 179 2.0i 240 Portfolio £33745 237 179 3.0i S-C 340 S £44870 335 194 2.0d 163 SE £29775 161 99 2.0d 163 Prestige £30775 161 99 2.0d 163 R-Sport £32325 161 99 2.0d 163 Portfolio £32975 161 99 2.0d 180 SE £30275 178 109 2.0d 180 Prestige £31275 178 109 2.0d 180 R-Sport £33025 178 109 2.0d 180 Portfolio £33675 178 109 XF 4dr saloon Sublime Brit exec. Great interior and dynamics. XFR a five-star car AAAAB 2.2D 163 Portfolio £37195 161 129 33 2.2D 163 R-Sport £34695 161 129 33 2.2D 200 R-Sport £36250 197 139 38 5.0 V8 SC XFR £65440 503 270 46 5.0 V8 SC XFR-S £79995 542 270 50 2.2D 163 Luxury £33445 161 129 33 2.2D 200 Luxury £34550 197 139 38 2.2D 200 Portfolio £38700 197 139 40 3.0D V6 S Premium Luxury £46615 271 159 44 3.0D V6 S Portfolio £49515 271 159 44

XF 5dr sportbrake Handsome estate wins hearts, if not heads AAAAC 2.2D 163 Portfolio £39695 161 129 33 2.2D 163 R-Sport £37195 161 129 33 2.2D 200 R-Sport £38750 197 139 33 3.0D V6 275 S Portfolio £51995 271 163 33 5.0 V8 SC XFR-S £82495 542 297 50 2.2D 163 Luxury £35945 161 129 33 2.2D 200 Luxury £37050 197 139 33 2.2D 200 Portfolio £41200 197 139 33 XJ 4dr saloon Modern looks finally match modern dynamics AAAAC 3.0 V6 S-C Premium Luxury £65995 336 224 3.0 V6 S-C Premium Luxury LWB £69150 336 224 3.0 V6 S-C Portfolio £73450 336 224 3.0 V6 S-C Portfolio LWB £76450 336 224 5.0 V8 S-C Supersport LWB £95895 503 270 50 5.0 V8 S-C 550 XJR £92395 542 270 50 3.0D V6 Luxury £56870 271 159 48 3.0D V6 Luxury LWB £59980 271 167 48 3.0D V6 Premium Luxury £60670 271 159 48 3.0D V6 Premium Luxury LWB £63780 271 167 48 3.0D V6 Portfolio £67870 271 159 49 3.0D V6 Portfolio LWB £70980 271 167 49 F-TYPE 2dr coupé Cheaper than the roadster. Gains in rigidity mean it’s better too AAAAB 3.0 V6 £53050 336 199 50 3.0 V6 S £60250 375 213 50 5.0 V8 R £85000 542 259 50 F-TYPE 2dr open Serious money. But it buys a serious car with a likeable wild side AAAAC 3.0 V6 £58535 336 209 50 3.0 V6 S £67535 375 213 50 5.0 V8 S £79995 488 259 50 JEEP RENEGADE 5dr 4x4 Middling compact crossover with chunky looks but no obvious charm AAACC 1.4 Multiair Longitude £19795 138 - 1.4 Multiair Ltd £22395 138 - 1.4 Multiair Opening Edition £22695 138 - 1.6 E-torQ Sport £16995 108 - 1.6 E-torQ Longitude £18595 108 - 1.6 E-torQ Ltd £21195 108 - 1.6 Multijet Sport £18695 118 - 1.6 Multijet Longitude £20295 118 - 1.6 Multijet Ltd £22895 118 - 1.6 Multijet Opening Edition £23195 118 - 2.0 Multijet Longitude £22795 138 - 2.0 Multijet Ltd £27195 138 - 2.0 Multijet Opening Edition £25695 138 - 2.0 Multijet Trailhawk £27995 168 - WRANGLER 3dr 4x4 Heavy-duty off roader lacks on-road manners AABCC 3.6 V6 Sahara £30240 276 263 3.6 V6 Overland £32390 276 263 3.6 V6 Rubicon £31140 276 270 2.8 CRD Overland £32375 197 213 25 2.8 CRD Sahara £30225 197 213 24 WRANGLER 5dr 4x4 Heavy-duty off roader lacks on-road manners AABCC 3.6 V6 Sahara £31910 276 273 3.6 V6 Overland £34060 276 273 3.6 V6 Rubicon £32810 276 273 22 2.8 CRD Overland £34045 197 217 25 2.8 CRD Overland Axle+ £33445 197 230 25 2.8 CRD Sahara £31895 197 217 24 2.8 CRD Sahara Axle+ £31295 197 230 24 CHEROKEE 5dr 4x4 Hamstrung by poor UK spec.

Uninspiring, but roomy and practical AAABC 2.0 Longitude 140 FWD £26110 138 139 27 2.0 Ltd 140 FWD £31810 138 139 2.0 Longitude 140 £28110 138 147 2.0 Ltd 140 £33810 138 147 2.0 Longitude 170 Au £30610 168 - 29 2.0 Ltd 170 Au £37810 168 - 28 2.0 Longitude Plus 140 FWD £28310 138 139 2.0 Longitude Plus 140 £30310 138 147 2.0 Longitude Plus 170 Au £32810 168 - 29 GRAND CHEROKEE 5dr 4x4 The best Jeep.

Comfortable and well-equipped AAABC 6.4 V8 SRT £63995 470 327 50 3.0 V6 190 CRD Laredo £38895 188 198 36 3.0 V6 CRD Ltd £41495 247 198 40 3.0 V6 CRD Ltd Plus £44495 247 198 41 3.0 V6 CRD Overland £48195 247 198 41 3.0 V6 CRD Summit £51995 247 198 43 KIA PICANTO 3dr hatch Nice drive and cabin, but overshawdowed now by rivals AAABC 1.0 VR7 £9645 68 99 6 1.0 1 £8145 68 99 3 1.25 White ISG £11845 84 106 11 1.25 White Au £12445 84 130 11 1.25 Quantum ISG £11995 84 106 12 PICANTO 5dr hatch Nice drive and cabin, but overshawdowed now by rivals AAABC 1.0 VR7 £9845 68 99 6 1.0 1 £8345 68 99 3 1.0 1 Air £8945 68 99 4 1.0 2 £9945 68 99 4 1.25 2 ISG £10545 84 100 7 1.25 3 £11545 84 109 10 1.25 4 ISG £12095 84 106 12 RIO 3dr hatch Looks great, but it’s well off the European saloon pace AAABC 1.25 1 £10345 83 115 2 1.25 SR7 £11845 83 115 3 1.25 2 £12245 83 115 3 1.4 2 ISG £13045 107 114 7 1.4 3 ISG £14445 107 114 7 1.4 CRDi 3 ISG £15545 89 98 6 CEED 5dr hatch Another looker from Schreyer, but dynamically forgettable AAACC 1.4 98 VR7 £15400 99 143 8 1.4 CRDi 89 VR7 £16690 89 114 6 1.4 98 1 £14805 99 139 7 1.4 98 2 £16805 99 143 8 1.6 GDi 133 2 ISG £17595 128 124 12 1.6 GDi 133 3 ISG £19395 128 124 12 1.6 GDi 133 4 ISG £20600 128 137 13 1.6 GDi 133 4 Tech ISG £22500 128 137 15

1.6 T-GDi 201 GT £20705 201 171 29 1.6 T-GDi 201 GT Tech £23405 201 171 29 1.4 CRDi 89 1 £16095 89 109 6 1.6 CRDi 126 1 ISG £16695 126 97 12 1.6 CRDi 126 2 ISG £18695 126 100 13 1.6 CRDi 126 3 ISG £20495 126 100 13 1.6 CRDi 126 4 ISG £22095 126 112 14 1.6 CRDi 126 4 Tech ISG £23995 126 112 15 CEED 5dr estate Another slightly bigger looker from Schreyer, but also forgettable AAACC 1.4 98 VR7 £16400 99 148 8 1.4 CRDi 89 1 ISG £17295 89 109 6 1.6 CRDi 126 1 ISG £18095 126 116 12 1.6 CRDi 126 2 ISG £19695 126 116 13 1.6 CRDi 126 3 ISG £21495 126 116 13 1.6 CRDi 126 4 ISG £23295 126 116 14 1.6 CRDi 126 4 Tech ISG £25195 126 116 15 PROCEED 3dr hatch Another slightly smaller looker from Schreyer. Still not memorable AAACC 1.4 98 VR7 £14900 133 143 10 1.6 GDi 133 S ISG £17895 133 124 14 1.6 GDi 133 SE £19905 133 137 15 1.6 GDi 133 SE DCT auto £21205 133 140 14 1.6 T-GDi 201 GT £20205 201 171 29 1.6 T-GDi 201 GT Tech £22905 201 171 30 1.6 CRDi 126 S ISG £18995 126 100 13 1.6 CRDi 126 SE ISG £20995 126 112 13 1.6 CRDi 126 SE Tech £23095 126 112 13 SOUL 5dr hatch Looks divide opinion. Better value now, but still hardly the best option AAACC EV 81kW £29995 107 - 19 1.6 GDi Start £12800 130 158 9 1.6 GDi Connect £15000 130 158 10 1.6 GDi Connect Plus £16100 130 158 10 1.6 GDi Mixx £18355 130 170 11 1.6 GDi Maxx £20155 130 170 11 1.6 CRDi Connect £16600 126 132 9 1.6 CRDi Connect Plus £17700 126 132 10 1.6 CRDi Mixx £19950 126 132 10 1.6 CRDi Maxx £21750 126 132 11 OPTIMA 4dr saloon Looks the part, but is well off the European saloon pace AAACC 1.7 CRDi 2 ISG £22895 134 128 17 1.7 CRDi 1 ISG £19995 134 128 17 1.7 CRDi 3 ISG £25795 134 128 20 VENGA 5dr mpv Versatile interior, but firm ride and high price disappoint AAAAC 1.4 89 1 ISG £11995 89 130 8 1.4 89 1 Air ISG £12795 89 130 8 1.4 89 SR7 ISG £13595 89 130 9 1.4 89 2 ISG £13895 89 130 9 1.6 123 3 ISG £16190 123 139 13 1.6 123 2 auto £15810 123 154 11 1.6 123 3 auto £17290 123 154 11 1.4 CRDi 89 2 £15195 89 119 10 1.4 CRDi 89 SR7 £14895 89 119 10 1.6 CRDi 114 3 ISG £17475 114 117 14 1.6 CRDi 114 4 ISG £18570 114 117 14 CARENS 5dr mpv NIcely up to scratch now, but no class leader AAABC 1.7 CRDi 3 Sat Nav ISG £25250 136 132 16 1.6 GDi 1 ISG £18195 133 149 13 1.6 GDi 2 ISG £19600 133 149 13 1.7 CRDi 114 1 ISG £19590 114 124 12 1.7 CRDi 114 2 ISG £20995 114 124 12 1.7 CRDi 134 2 Au £22400 136 159 16 1.7 CRDi 134 3 ISG £24300 136 132 16 SPORTAGE 5dr 4x4 Good ride, handling and usability. Looks decent too AAABC 1.7 CRDi 4 2WD ISG £25000 114 143 14 2.0 CRDi KX-1 4WD £21500 134 149 16 1.6 GDi 1 2WD £17500 133 158 14 1.6 GDi 2 2WD ISG £19800 133 149 15 1.7 CRDi 1 2WD ISG £19100 114 135 12 1.7 CRDi 2 2WD ISG £21200 114 135 13 1.7 CRDi 3 2WD ISG £23100 114 143 13 1.7 CRDi 3 SatNav 2WD ISG £23900 114 143 13 2.0 CRDi KX-2 4WD £23600 134 149 17 2.0 CRDi KX-3 4WD £25500 134 156 17 2.0 CRDi KX-3 4WD nav £26300 134 156 17 2.0 CRDi KX3 4WD sn au £27610 134 183 17 2.0 CRDi 181 KX-4 4WD £28200 134 158 19 SORENTO 5dr 4x4 Route one solution to the problem, but you know where you stand with it AAAAC 2.2 CRDi KX-1 £28795 197 149 24 2.2 CRDi KX-2 £31995 197 161 25 2.2 CRDi KX-3 £35845 197 161 26 2.2 CRDi KX-4 £41000 197 177 28 KTM X-BOW 0dr unknown Eccentric looks, sharp handling.

Expensive AAAAC 2.0 Street £49980 237 185 2.0 Clubsport £59755 237 185 2.0 Superlight £79305 237 185 2.0 ABT Sp.line 300 £59755 296 189 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN 2dr coupé A supercar to its bones, but the flaws are just as obvious AAAAC 5.2 V10 LP 610-4 £180720 601 - AVENTADOR 2dr coupé Big, bullish and ballistic. But not perfect AAAAC 6.5 LP700-4 £242280 690 398 LAND ROVER DEFENDER 3dr 4x4 An institution. Unbeatable off road, crude on it AAACC 90 2.2D Hard Top £23100 120 266 90 2.2D S’Wagon £25265 120 269 25 90 2.2D County £27305 120 269 25 90 2.2D XS S’Wagon £30505 120 269 26 DEFENDER 5dr 4x4 An institution. Unbeatable off road, crude on it AAACC 110 2.2D Hard Top £25010 120 295 26 110 2.2D County Utility Wagon £29550 120 295 110 2.2D Utility Wagon £27620 120 295 110 2.2D S’Wagon £27620 120 295 27 110 2.2D County £29550 120 295 28 110 2.2D XS S’Wagon £33405 120 295 28 110 2.2D XS Utility Wagon £32405 120 295 -

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NEW CARS A-Z DISCOVERY 5dr 4x4 The best compromise between off and on-road ability AAAAC 3.0 SDV6 255 GS £40005 252 213 39 3.0 SDV6 255 XS £46865 252 213 40 3.0 SDV6 255 HSE £54495 252 213 41 DISCOVERY SPORT 5dr 4x4 Hugely alluring compact seven-seater AAAAC 2.2 SD4 190 SE £32395 188 162 28 2.2 SD4 190 SE Tech £33895 188 162 28 2.2 SD4 190 HSE £37595 188 162 31 2.2 SD4 190 HSE Luxury £41195 188 162 31 RANGE ROVER EVOQUE 3dr 4x4 A new class of desirability for the SUV AAAAC 2.2 eD4 150 Pure Tech 2WD £31205 148 129 29 2.2 SD4 190 Pure Tech 4WD £33505 188 149 33 2.2 SD4 190 Dynamic 4WD £39305 188 149 34 RANGE ROVER EVOQUE 5dr 4x4 A new class of desirability for the SUV AAAAC 2.0 Si4 240 Dynamic Lux 4WD £46210 237 181 39 2.2 eD4 150 Pure 2WD £29205 148 133 28 2.2 eD4 150 Pure Tech 2WD £31205 148 133 29 2.2 SD4 190 Pure 4WD £31505 188 149 32 2.2 SD4 190 Pure Tech 4WD £33505 188 149 33 2.2 SD4 190 Dynamic 4WD £39305 188 149 34 RANGE ROVER 5dr 4x4 Arguably the best luxury car in the world. Easily the best SUV AAAAB 5.0 V8 S Aubiography £102450 503 299 50 5.0 V8 S Aubiography LWB £110150 503 299 50 3.0 TDV6 Vogue £74950 254 182 45 3.0 TDV6 Vogue SE £81850 254 182 50 3.0 TDV6 Aubiography £91550 254 182 50 3.0 SDV6 Hybrid Aubiography £102450 335 164 50 4.4 SDV8 Vogue £81950 308 219 50 4.4 SDV8 Vogue SE £88850 308 219 50 4.4 SDV8 Aubiography £98550 308 219 50 4.4 SDV8 Aubiography LWB £106250 308 219 50 RANGE ROVER SPORT 5dr 4x4 Just the right kind of dynamic twist. Brilliant AAAAB 5.0 V8 S Aubiography Dynamic £84350 503 298 49 3.0 SDV6 HSE £61950 288 185 43 3.0 SDV6 HSE Dynamic £67150 288 185 43 3.0 SDV6 Aubiography Dynamic £77850 288 185 45 4.4 SDV8 Aubiography Dynamic £84350 334 219 47 LEXUS CT 5dr hatch Makes sense only as a company car. Not fun AAACC 200h S £21245 134 82 19 200h SE £22745 134 94 19 200h Advance £24245 134 94 19 200h Luxury £24745 134 94 20 200h F Sport £26995 134 94 20 200h Premier £29745 134 94 21 IS 4dr saloon Sleek junior exec, well made and interesting. Needs a better diesel AAACC 250 SE £26495 204 199 32 250 Luxury £27995 204 199 33 250 F Sport £30495 204 213 33 250 Premier £35495 204 213 34 300h SE £28995 217 99 31 300h Luxury £30995 217 103 32 300h F Sport £32495 217 109 32 300h Premier £36750 217 109 33 GS 4dr saloon Refreshingly different, but lacks a diesel engine AAABC 300h SE £31495 179 109 31 300h Luxury £37495 179 113 32 300h F Sport £41745 179 115 33 300h Premier £43745 179 113 33 450h Luxury £45495 338 141 42 450h F Sport £51495 338 145 42 450h Premier £51495 338 141 42 LS 4dr saloon Uninspiring luxury barge with a huge kit list attached AAABC 460 Luxury £71995 382 249 48 460 F-Sport £74495 382 249 49 600h L Premier £99995 439 199 50 600h L Premier Night View £101510 439 199 50 NX 5dr hatch Some good ideas, but dramatically off the pace to drive AAACC 2.0 200t F Sport £38095 235 183 300h S 2WD £29495 195 116 29 300h SE £31495 195 121 31 300h Luxury £34495 195 121 31 300h F Sport £36995 195 121 32 300h Premier £42995 195 121 33 RX 5dr 4x4 Low flexibility, but hybrid function makes a degree of economic sense AAABC 450h SE £44495 245 145 40 450h Luxury £48495 245 145 41 450h F Sport £51995 245 145 42 450h Premier £55495 245 145 41 RC-F 2dr coupé An also-ran in the segment, although naturally-aspirated V8 is easy to like AAABC 5.0 V8 £59995 471 251 48 5.0 V8 Carbon £67995 471 251 50 LOTUS ELISE 2dr open Pure sports car. Great chassis and steering, low running costs AAAAC 1.6 Club Racer £28580 134 149 43 1.6 £29050 134 149 43 1.6 Sport £30650 134 149 43 1.8 S £37205 217 175 43 EXIGE 2dr coupé Sharp, uncompromising track car.

Unforgiving on road AAAAC 3.5 V6 S £54610 345 236 47 EVORA 2dr coupé Sublime combination of pliant ride and sweet handling AAAAC 3.5 V6 £53080 276 217 50 3.5 V6 +2 £54980 276 217 50 3.5 V6 Sp. Racer £58850 276 217 50 3.5 V6 S £62290 345 229 50 3.5 V6 S +2 £64190 345 229 50 3.5 V6 S Sp. Racer £66850 345 229 50 MASERATI GHIBLI 4dr saloon Classy and entertaining but less polished than a 5-Series AAAAC 3.0 V6 £53575 325 223 50 3.0 V6 S £64720 404 242 50 3.0D V6 £49160 271 158 50

MAZDA 2 5dr hatch Much more grown-up now. Handsome and comfortable - if slightly less fun AAAAC 1.5 75 SE £11995 74 110 1.5 75 SE-L £12995 74 110 1.5 90 SE-L £13995 90 105 1.5 90 SE-L Nav £14395 90 105 1.5 90 Sport £14995 90 105 1.5 90 Sport Nav £15395 90 105 1.5 115 Sport Nav £15995 113 117 1.5D 105 SE-L £15995 104 89 1.5D 105 SE-L Nav £16395 104 89 1.5D 105 Sport £16995 104 89 1.5D 105 Sport Nav £17395 104 89 3 5dr hatch Refined, well-priced family choice.

Dynamically satisfying, too AAAAC 1.5 100 SE £16995 99 119 13 1.5 100 SE Nav £17595 99 119 13 2.0 120 SE £17295 118 119 17 2.0 120 SE Nav £17895 118 119 17 2.0 120 SE-L £18795 118 119 18 2.0 120 SE-L Nav £19395 118 119 18 2.0 120 Sport Nav £20195 118 119 18 £21920 162 135 22 2.0 165 Sport Nav 2.2D 150 SE £19645 148 107 23 2.2D 150 SE Nav £20245 148 107 24 2.2D 150 SE-L £21145 148 107 24 2.2D 150 SE-L Nav £21745 148 107 24 2.2D 150 Sport Nav £22545 148 107 24 6 4dr saloon A compelling mix of size, economy and performance. Interior a let down AAAAC 2.0 145 SE £19795 143 129 18 2.0 145 SE Nav £20495 143 129 18 2.0 145 SE-L £20795 143 129 16 2.0 145 SE-L Nav £21495 143 129 16 2.0 165 Sport Nav £24595 162 135 19 2.2D 150 SE £22295 148 108 21 2.2D 150 SE Nav £22995 148 108 21 2.2D 150 SE-L £23295 148 108 19 2.2D 150 SE-L Nav £23995 148 108 19 2.2D 150 Sport Nav £26395 148 108 21 2.2D 175 Sport Nav £26795 173 119 23 6 5dr tourer A compelling mix of size, economy and performance. Interior a let down AAAAC 2.0 145 SE-L Nav £22425 143 129 16 2.0 165 Sport Nav £25395 162 135 19 2.2D 150 SE Nav £23795 148 116 21 2.2D 175 Sport Nav £27595 173 119 23 2.0 145 SE-L £21725 143 131 16 2.2D 150 SE £23095 148 116 21 2.2D 150 SE-L £24095 148 116 19 2.2D 150 SE-L Nav £24795 148 116 19 2.2D 150 Sport Nav £27195 148 116 21 CX-5 5dr 4x4 Superb diesel engine mated to above average package AAABC 2.0 Skyactiv-G 165 SE-L Nav £22995 162 139 15 2.0 Skyactiv-G 165 Sport Nav £25395 162 139 16 2.2D Skyactiv-D 150 SE-L Nav £24795 148 119 18 2.2D Sky-D 150 SE-L Lux Nav £26395 148 119 20 2.2D Skyactiv-D 150 Sport Nav £27195 148 119 19 2.2D Sky-D 150 SE-L Nav AWD £26695 148 136 17 2.2D Sky-D 175 Sport Nav AWD £29395 173 136 21 5 5dr mpv Functional seven-seater, but not unpleasant to drive. Lots of kit AAABC 2.0 150 Sport Venture £20495 148 159 16 1.6D 115 Sport Venture £21895 114 138 16 MX-5 2dr open The old recipe - but done better. Lean, low-cost and pretty. As it should be AAAAB 1.5i Sport Nav £22445 129 139 1.5i SE £18495 129 139 1.5i SE-L £19245 129 139 1.5i SE-L Nav £19845 129 139 1.5i Sport £21845 129 139 2.0i SE-L £20095 153 - 2.0i SE-L Nav £20695 153 - 2.0i Sport £22695 153 - 2.0i Sport Nav £23295 153 - MCLAREN 650S 2dr coupé Extraordinary pace and handling. The car the 12C should have been AAAAB 3.8 V8 £195250 641 - 50 650S SPIDER 2dr open More of the same although noisier — and better for it AAAAB 3.8 V8 £215250 641 - 50 P1 2dr coupé Other-worldly. As worthy of a place in hypercar history as the F1 AAAAA 3.8 V8 £866000 903 194 50 MERCEDES-BENZ A-CLASS 5dr hatch Desirability on message; ride quality seriously off-piste AAABC A180 CDI SE ECO £21965 107 92 16 A250 Engi’red by AMG 4MATIC £30910 208 154 34 A180 SE £20715 121 128 18 A180 Sport £21840 121 133 18 A200 Sport £23365 154 134 23 A200 AMG Sport £24615 154 136 24 A250 Engineered by AMG Sport £29375 208 140 34 A45 AMG 4MATIC £38195 354 161 43 A180 CDI SE auto £23240 107 98 16 A180 CDI Sport £22785 107 102 16 A180 CDI AMG Sport £24035 107 105 16 A200 CDI Sport £23860 134 118 20 A200 CDI AMG Sport £25110 134 121 21 A220 CDI AMG Sport £27760 168 115 25

S600 L AMG Line £140615 523 259 50 S63 AMG L £119845 577 237 50 S65 AMG L £179995 621 279 50 Maybach S600 £165700 501 274 50 S300 Bluetec Hybrid L AMG Line £72260 204 120 49 S350 Bluetec AMG Line £67940 254 151 50 S350 Bluetec L SE Line £66910 254 148 50 S350 Bluetec L AMG Line £70940 254 154 50 CLS 4dr saloon Saloon-like practicality, coupe-like rewards AAAAC 400 AMG Line £55855 328 170 50 63 AMG S £86510 577 231 50 220 BlueTec AMG Line £46500 175 129 44 350 BlueTec AMG Line £49950 254 - 46 CLS 5dr shooting brake Saloon-like practicality, coupé-like rewards AAAAC 63 AMG S £87010 577 231 50 220 BlueTec AMG Line £48080 175 129 44 350 BlueTec AMG Line £51400 254 162 47 GLA 5dr 4x4 Not the most practical crossover, but good looking and very decent to drive AAAAC GLA250 AMG Line 4Matic £31295 208 154 34 GLA45 AMG 4MATIC £44600 354 175 GLA200 CDI Sport £26265 134 119 25 GLA200 CDI Sport 4Matic £29215 134 119 25 GLA200 CDI AMG Line £27210 134 119 25 GLA200 CDI 4Matic AMG Line £30215 134 119 25 GLA220 CDI Sport 4Matic £30645 168 129 28 GLA220 CDI AMG Line 4Matic £31645 168 129 29 G-CLASS 5dr 4x4 Massively expensive and compromised, but with character to spare AAABC G350 BlueTEC £86445 208 295 G63 AMG £129665 537 322 GL-CLASS 5dr 4x4 Decent on road and off despite its size. Nice cabin, too AAABC GL350 BlueTEC AMG Sport £60755 261 209 49 GL63 AMG £93360 549 288 50 SLK 2dr open Enthusiastic, neat handling and brisk all-weather roadster AAAAC 200 CGI BlueEff Sport £34750 181 158 41 250 CGI BlueEff Sport £38710 201 169 44 350 CGI BlueEff Sport £44610 302 167 45 SLK55 AMG £55350 416 195 47 SLK250 CDI £33150 201 132 42 SLK250 CDI AMG Sport £37150 201 132 43 SL 2dr open Big, luxurious and classier than a royal stud farm. Merc at its best.

AAAAB SL400 AMG Sport £72505 329 178 50 SL500 AMG Sport £81920 429 212 50 SL63 AMG £112520 557 231 50 SL65 AMG £170825 621 270 50 AMG GT 2dr coupé Clever and handsome replacement for the SLS. Different, but very good AAAAC 4.0 V8 £97200 456 216 50 4.0 V8 S £110500 503 219 50 CL 2dr coupé Comfortable big coupe. More GT than sports car AAAAC CL500 £95545 429 227 50 CL63 AMG £118885 536 244 50 CL65 AMG £164840 621 334 50 M-CLASS 5dr 4x4 Roomy, quiet and well-appointed. A proper Merc SUV AAAAC ML350 BlueTEC SE Exec £51340 254 189 43 ML63 AMG £87005 536 276 50 ML250 BlueTEC SE Exec £48190 201 165 38 ML250 BlueTEC AMG Line £50850 201 165 38 ML350 BlueTEC AMG Line £54000 254 189 43 V-CLASS 5dr mpv Expensively appointed mini bus.

With matching price tag AAABC V220 SE £41845 161 149 V220 Sport £44340 161 149 V220 Extra Long SE £43380 161 149 V220 Extra Long Sport £45875 161 149 V250 SE £43520 161 157 V250 Sport £46015 161 157 V250 Extra Long SE £45055 161 157 V250 Extra Long Sport £47550 161 157 MG MG3 5dr hatch Neatly tuned and nicely styled supermini. Flaws covered up by price AAACC 1.5 3Time £8399 105 136 4 1.5 3Form £9299 105 136 4 1.5 3Form Sport £9549 105 136 4 1.5 3Style £9999 105 136 4 MG6 4dr saloon Good dynamics and space. Poor finish and running costs AACCC 1.8T Magnette TSE £19955 158 174 14 1.9 DTi Magnette TSE £21195 148 129 14 MG6 5dr hatch Good dynamics and space. Poor finish and running costs AACCC 1.8 TCI GT S £15455 158 174 13 1.8 TCI GT SE £16955 158 174 14 1.8 TCI GT TSE £18955 158 174 14 1.9 DTi GT S £16995 148 129 13 1.9 DTi GT SE £18195 148 129 14 1.9 DTi GT TSE £20195 148 129 14 MINI HATCH 3dr hatch Has matured very satisfyingly into its larger footprint . A real contender AAAAB 1.2 One £13955 102 108 12 1.5 Cooper £15505 134 105 18 2.0 S Cooper £18840 189 133 26 1.5 D One £15075 114 89 11 1.5 D Cooper £16635 114 92 15 2.0 SD Cooper £19655 168 106 23 HATCH 5dr hatch Additional door hardly adds charm.

Bottom line embellished nevertheless AAABC 1.2 One £14565 102 112 12 1.5 Cooper £16105 134 109 18 2.0 S Cooper £19440 189 136 26 1.5 D One £15675 94 92 11 1.5 D Cooper £17235 114 95 15 2.0 SD Cooper £20255 168 109 23 PACEMAN 3dr coupé Two-door Countryman a Mini too far for us. Tough to like AAABC 1.6 Cooper £19115 121 137 16 1.6T Cooper S £22485 181 139 30 1.6T Cooper S ALL4 £23720 181 148 29 1.6T John Cooper Works £29575 208 165 34 1.6D Cooper D ALL4 £21645 110 123 14 1.6D Cooper D £20375 110 111 15

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B-CLASS 5dr hatch A slightly odd prospect, but practical and classy AAABC B180 SE £21500 120 129 16 B180 Sport £22225 120 129 16 B180 AMG Line £23520 120 129 16 B200 SE £22575 154 130 16 B200 Sport £23300 154 130 16 B200 AMG Line £24595 154 130 16 B180 CDI SE ECO £22575 108 94 15 B180 CDI SE £22575 108 108 15 B180 CDI Sport £23170 108 108 15 B180 CDI AMG Line £24465 108 108 15 B200 CDI SE £23650 134 111 20 B200 CDI Sport £24245 134 111 20 B200 CDI AMG Line £25540 134 111 20 B220 CDI Sport £27125 168 107 25 CLA 4dr saloon Attractive from some angles, unappealing from others. Dynamics to match AAACC CLA 200 CDI AMG Sport £29125 134 117 27 CLA 200 CDI Sport £26925 134 117 27 CLA 250 AMG Sport 4Matic £33405 208 154 24 CLA180 Sport £24775 121 130 23 CLA180 AMG Sport £26975 121 130 24 CLA45 AMG £42270 354 161 45 CLA220 CDI Sport £29775 168 117 27 CLA220 CDI AMG Sport £31975 168 117 28 C-CLASS 2dr coupé Nice balance of style, usability and driver reward AAABC C63 AMG Edition 507 £68495 451 280 44 C180 AMG Sport Edition £29965 154 149 35 C220 CDI Exec SE £31130 168 109 34 C220 CDI AMG Sport Edition £32460 168 133 38 C250 CDI AMG Sport Edition £33515 201 143 41 C-CLASS 4dr saloon Stellar cabin and polished drive increase appeal; engines not so good AAAAC C200 SE £27270 181 123 31 C200 Sport £29265 181 124 31 C200 AMG Line £30890 181 128 31 C63 AMG £59800 469 192 C63 AMG S £66550 503 192 C200 Bluetec SE £28985 134 102 25 C200 Bluetec Sport £30980 134 102 25 C200 Bluetec AMG Line £32475 134 102 25 C220 Bluetec SE £29780 168 103 31 C220 Bluetec Sport £31775 168 104 31 C220 Bluetec AMG Line £33270 168 104 31 C250 Bluetec SE £32435 201 117 35 C250 Bluetec Sport £34430 201 117 35 C250 Bluetec AMG Line £35925 201 117 35 C300 Bluetec Hybrid SE £35045 201 94 C300 Bluetec Hybrid Sport £37040 201 94 C300 Bluetec Hybrid AMG Line £38535 201 94 C-CLASS 5dr estate Decent practicality and fantastic interior - but only okay to driveAAAAC C200 Bluetec AMG Line £33675 134 102 25 C200 Bluetec SE £30185 134 102 25 C200 Bluetec Sport £32180 134 102 25 C200 SE £28470 181 128 31 C220 Bluetec SE £30980 168 108 31 C250 Bluetec SE £33635 201 117 35 C63 AMG £61000 469 196 47 C63 AMG S £67750 503 196 47 C200 Sport £30465 181 128 31 C200 AMG Line £32090 181 128 31 C220 Bluetec Sport £32975 168 108 31 C220 Bluetec AMG Line £34470 168 108 31 C250 Bluetec Sport £35630 201 117 35 C250 Bluetec AMG Line £37125 201 117 35 E-CLASS 4dr saloon A return to the old Merc qualities. Refined and relaxing AAAAC E300 Bluetec Hybrid AMG Sport £42375 204 109 43 E63 AMG S £84110 549 232 47 E200 SE £34340 181 138 36 E200 AMG Line £36850 181 142 37 E250 SE £35470 208 138 38 E250 AMG Line £37980 208 142 39 E63 AMG £74115 549 230 47 E300 Bluetec Hybrid SE £39880 204 109 43 E220 Bluetec SE £34270 168 120 34 E220 Bluetec AMG Line £36765 168 129 35 E250 CDI SE £36820 201 129 39 E250 CDI AMG Line £39445 201 134 40 E350 Bluetec AMG Line £41210 248 154 44 E-CLASS 5dr estate A return to the old Merc qualities. Refined and relaxing AAAAC E220 Bluetec AMG Line £38555 168 135 35 E220 Bluetec SE £36060 168 133 34 E250 AMG Line £39770 208 147 39 E250 CDI AMG Line £41250 201 145 40 E250 CDI SE £38755 201 143 39 E250 SE £37275 208 144 38 E300 BlueTEC Hybrid AMG Line £44165 201 119 44 E300 BlueTEC Hybrid SE £41670 201 119 44 E350 Bluetec AMG Line £43015 248 159 44 E63 AMG £75905 549 234 47 E63 AMG S £85900 582 234 47 E-CLASS 2dr coupé A return to the old Merc qualities.

Refined and relaxing AAAAC E200 AMG Line £38635 181 140 39 E400 AMG Line Plus £46425 329 176 45 E220 Bluetec SE £36615 168 123 38 E220 Bluetec AMG Line £39310 168 126 39 E250 CDI Bluetec AMG Line £40930 201 129 43 E350 Bluetec AMG Line £42625 228 149 46 E-CLASS CABRIOLET 2dr open Nice cabin, but ride isn’t great. Six-pot engines best AAACC E200 AMG Line £42005 181 146 42 E400 AMG Line Plus £49795 329 185 48 E220 Bluetec SE £39985 168 127 41 E220 Bluetec AMG Line £42810 168 134 42 E250 CDI AMG Line £44300 201 128 45 E350 Bluetec AMG Line £46010 228 154 48 S-CLASS 2dr coupé Heavyweight contender.

Continent smothering luxury AAAAC S500 £96195 449 207 50 S63 AMG £125605 577 237 50 S65 AMG £183075 621 279 50 S-CLASS 4dr saloon Still the best luxury car in the real world. Calm, advanced, rewarding AAAAA S500 Plug-in Hybrid £82965 436 65 50 S500 L AMG Line £88400 449 207 50 S400 Hybrid L SE Line £70935 328 147 49 S400 Hybrid L AMG Line £74930 328 153 49

AUTOCAR TOP FIVES City cars

2.0D Cooper SD £23235 141 119 20 2.0D Cooper SD ALL4 £24535 141 126 19 COUNTRYMAN 5dr 4x4 Big, but still more funky than useful AAABC 1.6 One 2WD £17105 97 134 12 1.6 Cooper 2WD £18625 120 137 16 1.6T Cooper S 2WD £22005 181 139 30 1.6T Cooper S ALL4 4WD £23240 181 148 28 1.6T JCW £28985 215 165 33 1.6D One 2WD £18135 89 111 13 1.6D Cooper 2WD £19885 110 111 18 1.6D Cooper ALL4 4WD £21165 110 123 16 2.0D Cooper SD £22755 141 119 20 2.0D Cooper SD ALL4 4WD £24055 141 126 20 MITSUBISHI I 5dr hatch Electric city transport. Fun, quirky but ludicrously expensive AAABC MiEV Keiko £28554 63 0 27 MIRAGE 5dr hatch Straightforward hatchback. Not for the likes of us AAACC 1.0 70 MIVEC 1 £9054 70 96 15 1.2 79 MIVEC 2 £11054 79 96 18 1.2 79 MIVEC 3 £12054 79 100 18 ASX 5dr hatch Engine sets a new standard, but otherwise unexceptional AAABC 1.6 2 2WD £15184 115 137 13 1.6 3 2WD £17435 115 137 13 1.8 DiD 3 2WD £19435 114 136 19 1.8 DiD 4 4WD £23434 114 136 19 2.2 DiD 4 4WD auto £24884 148 153 19 SHOGUN 5dr 4x4 Has its appeal. Needs more chassis finesse, but still charming AACCC 3.2 Di-DC SG2 £29544 197 213 32 3.2 Di-DC SG3 auto £34744 197 224 34 3.2 Di-DC SG4 auto £37744 197 224 34 OUTLANDER 5dr 4x4 Practical and efficient, although very ordinary inside AAABC 2.0 PHEV GX3h £33304 200 44 26 2.0 PHEV GX4h £37954 200 44 27 2.0 PHEV GX4hs £40054 200 44 24 2.0 PHEV GX5h £42954 200 44 28 2.0 PHEV GX5hs £45054 200 44 24 2.2 DI-D GX2 4WD £23984 148 138 22 2.2 DI-D GX3 4WD £26784 148 140 23 2.2 DI-D GX4 4WD £30684 148 140 24 2.2 Di-D GX4s 4WD Au £34234 148 153 22 MORGAN 3 WHEELER 0dr open Eccentric, uniquely English and not a little special AAAAA 1.9 115 Sport £31140 115 215 1.9 115 Bespoke £34000 115 - 1.9 115 Superdry £34995 115 - AERO SUPERSPORTS 2dr open Has pace and kerbside status, but pricey AABCC 4.8 V8 £126900 390 269 4-4 2dr open Has its appeal, but not so rewarding to drive AACCC 1.6 £31500 110 - PLUS 4 2dr open Has its appeal. Needs more chassis finesse, but still charming AACCC 2.0 2 Seater £35400 145 172 2.0 4 Seater £40200 145 172 ROADSTER 2dr open More advanced, but pricey and needs better brakes AACCC 3.7 V6 4 Seater £51000 280 - 3.7 V6 £45900 280 - PLUS EIGHT 2dr open Olde V8 charm lives on, but requires oodles of cash AAACC 4.8 V8 £85200 367 - NISSAN MICRA 5dr hatch Low running costs but below average overall AABCC 1.2 Visia £10295 79 115 6 1.2 Acenta £11945 79 115 7 1.2 Tekna £13345 79 115 7 1.2 DIG-S Visia £12045 97 95 10 1.2 DIG-S Acenta £13045 97 99 10 1.2 DIG-S Tekna £14445 97 99 11 JUKE 5dr hatch High-riding, funky hatch is a compelling package. High CO2 AAABC 1.2 DIG-T Acenta £15320 114 129 12 1.2 DIG-T Acenta Premium £16720 114 129 12 1.2 DIG-T Tekna £17770 114 129 12 1.6 Visia £13620 93 138 12 1.6 DIG-T 190 Acenta Premium £18150 188 159 21 1.6 DIG-T 190 Tekna £19200 188 159 21 1.6 DIG-T 200 Nismo £21650 197 159 21 1.5 dCi Visia £15520 109 104 13 1.5 dCi Acenta £16715 109 104 13 1.5 dCi Acenta Premium £18115 109 104 13 1.5 dCi Tekna £19165 109 104 13 NOTE 5dr hatch It lacks a bit of verve, but objectively the Note is entirely fit for purpose AAAAC 1.2 Visia £12130 78 109 6 1.2 Acenta £13525 78 109 6 1.2 Acenta Premium £14465 78 109 6 1.2 DIG-S Acenta £14625 97 99 10 1.2 DIG-S Acenta Premium £15565 97 99 10 1.2 DIG-S Tekna £16470 97 99 10 1.5 dCi Visia £14130 89 92 8 1.5 dCi Acenta £15525 89 92 8 1.5 dCi Acenta Premium £16465 89 92 9 1.5 dCi Tekna £17370 89 92 9 LEAF 5dr hatch Comfortable electric car with 100mile range AAACC 80kw Tekna £30590 107 0 24 80kw Visia £26490 107 0 23 80kw Visia + £27590 107 0 23 80kw Acenta £28590 107 0 23 PULSAR 5dr hatch Undeniably fit for purpose, but its appeal goes no deeper than that AAABC 1.2 DIG-T 115 Visia £15995 114 117 10 1.2 DIG-T 115 Acenta £17645 114 117 10 1.2 DIG-T 115 n-tec £18995 114 117 10 1.2 DIG-T 115 Tekna £20345 114 117 10 1.5 dCi 110 Visia £17595 109 94 11 1.5 dCi 110 Acenta £19245 109 94 11 1.5 dCi 110 n-tec £20595 109 94 11 1.5 dCi 110 Tekna £21945 109 94 11

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Volkswagen Up

From £8000 VW’s city car is no revolution — just a trademark effort to beat its rivals on finish, refinement and economy. AAAAC

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Hyundai i10

From £8000 The latest i10 prioritises maturity over its former liveliness, but the refined result is still a first-rate city car. AAAAC

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Suzuki Celerio

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Fiat Panda

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Vauxhall Viva

From £9000 Pleasing to drive, cheap to buy and decent to sit in, the Celerio is a no-nonsense option — and very likeable for it. AAABC

From £9000 While the Panda may not have quite kept pace with its rivals, it still sells robust, practical charm better than any. AAABC

From £8000 A derivative and charisma-free take on the modern city car, but not devoid of usability or space. Cabin decent, too. AAABC Visit autocar.co.uk for all of our Top Fives

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QUATTROPORTE 4dr saloon Not quite as sophisticated as it might have been.

AAABC 3.0 V6 S £81555 404 242 50 3.8 V8 GTS £109625 523 274 50 3.0D V6 £69235 271 164 50 GRANTURISMO 2dr coupé Fantastic looks and soundtrack, average chassis AAAAC 4.2 V8 £82280 400 330 50 4.7 V8 Sport £90810 453 331 50 4.7 V8 MC Stradale £110135 453 360 50 GRANCABRIO 2dr open Fantastic looks and soundtrack, average chassis AAAAC 4.7 V8 £98340 433 337 50 4.7 V8 Sport £103935 453 337 50

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QASHQAI 5dr hatch Second generation a masterly update of the first. The crossover to beat AAAAB 1.6 dCi 130 Tekna 4WD £28500 128 115 19 1.2 DIG-T 115 Visia £18265 113 129 17 1.2 DIG-T 115 Acenta £19850 113 129 14 1.2 DIG-T 115 N-tec £21700 113 129 14 1.2 DIG-T 115 N-tec + £22250 113 129 14 1.2 DIG-T 115 Tekna £23800 113 129 14 1.6 DIG-T 163 N-tec £23200 161 138 14 1.6 DIG-T 163 N-tec + £23750 161 138 14 1.6 DIG-T 163 Tekna £25300 161 138 14 1.5 dCi 110 Visia £20015 109 99 17 1.5 dCi 110 Acenta £21600 109 99 17 1.5 dCi 110 N-tec £23450 109 99 14 1.5 dCi 110 N-tec + £24000 109 99 14 1.5 dCi 110 Tekna £25550 109 99 15 1.6 dCi 130 Tekna £26800 128 115 19 X-TRAIL 5dr 4x4 Sleek, Qashqai-based crossover is an easy win if you require seven seats AAABC 1.6 dCi Visia 2WD £23195 128 129 19 1.6 dCi Acenta 2WD £24995 128 129 19 1.6 dCi Acenta 4WD £26695 128 139 20 1.6 dCi n-tec 2WD £27645 128 129 19 1.6 dCi n-tec 4WD £29345 128 139 20 1.6 dCi Tekna 2WD £29645 128 129 19 1.6 dCi Tekna 4WD £31345 128 139 20 370Z 2dr coupé Great engine and poised handling.

Lots of road noise AAABC 3.7 V6 Nismo £37585 345 248 46 3.7 V6 £27445 323 248 46 3.7 V6 GT £32525 323 248 46 GT-R 2dr coupé A benchmark. Great drive, brutal power, sensational value AAAAC 3.8 V6 2014 MY £78030 523 275 50 3.8 V6 Nismo £125000 523 275 50 NOBLE M600 2dr coupé A new era for the Brit maker.

Outrageous pace and handling AAAAB 4.4 V8 £200000 650 -

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PEUGEOT ION 5dr hatch Good electric powertrain, comically expensive AABCC 63 £26216 63 0 28 66 UK drive £26216 63 0 28 108 3dr hatch Sister car to the Aygo. And distant second to most city car rivals AAACC 1.0 Access £8345 68 95 6 1.0 Active £9595 68 95 6 1.0 Active Top £10595 68 95 7 1.0 Active S-S £9845 68 88 6 1.0 Active S-S Top £10845 68 88 7 1.2 VTi Allure £11095 81 99 11 1.2 VTi Allure Top £12095 81 99 11 1.2 VTi Feline £11945 81 99 11 108 5dr hatch Sister car to the Aygo. And distant second to most city car rivals AAACC 1.0 Active £9995 68 95 6 1.0 Active Top £10995 68 95 7 1.0 Active S-S £10245 68 88 6 1.0 Active S-S Top £11245 68 88 7 1.2 VTi Allure £11495 81 99 11 1.2 VTi Allure Top £12495 81 99 11 1.2 VTi Feline £12345 81 99 11 208 3dr hatch Big improvement for Peugeot, if not the supermini class AAABC 1.0 VTi Access £10195 67 99 5 1.0 VTi Access + £11445 67 99 6 1.0 VTi Active £12395 67 99 6 1.2 VTi Access + £11945 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Active £12895 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Allure £14295 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Style £13645 81 104 11 1.6 THP 156 XY £18150 154 135 26 1.6 THP 200 GTi £19100 197 139 30 1.4 HDi Access+ £13245 67 98 11 1.4 HDi Active £14195 67 98 11 1.4 HDi Style £14945 67 98 10 1.6 e-HDi 92 Style £15595 91 95 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 Allure £16245 91 95 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 XY £17895 91 95 16 1.6 e-HDi 115 XY £18545 113 99 20 208 5dr hatch Big improvement for Peugeot, if not the supermini class AAABC 1.0 VTi Access £10795 67 99 5 1.0 VTi Access + £12045 67 99 6 1.0 VTi Active £12995 67 99 6 1.2 VTi Active £13495 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Access + £12545 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Allure £14695 81 104 8 1.2 VTi Style £14245 81 104 11 1.6 VTi Allure auto £16850 118 149 14 1.6 VTi Feline £17245 118 129 14 1.4 HDi Access+ £13845 67 98 11 1.4 HDi Active £14795 67 98 11 1.4 HDi Style £15545 67 98 10 1.4 e-HDi Active EGC £15495 67 87 11 1.6 e-HDi 92 Style £16195 91 95 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 Allure £16645 91 95 17 1.6 e-HDi 115 Feline £18695 113 99 19 308 5dr hatch Thoughtfully developed and very well appointed but still no class leader AAAAC 1.2 PureTech 82 Access £14995 81 117 9 1.2 PureTech 110 Active £17945 108 105 13 1.2 PureTech 110 Allure £19145 81 107 13 1.2 PureTech 110 Sportium £17445 108 105 11 1.2 PureTech 130 Active £18695 128 107 14 1.2 PureTech 130 Allure £19895 128 110 15 1.2 PureTech 130 GT Line £21445 128 110 16 1.6 THP 205 GT £24095 202 130 26 1.6 HDi 92 Access £16945 91 93 15 1.6 HDi 92 Active £18645 91 93 15 1.6 Blue HDi 120 Active £19845 118 82 22 1.6 Blue HDi 120 Allure £21045 118 84 24 1.6 HDi 115 Active £19445 113 95 18 1.6 HDi 115 Allure £20645 113 100 18 1.6 HDi 115 GT Line £22195 113 100 18 2.0 Blue HDi 150 Allure £21945 148 97 25 2.0 Blue HDi 150 GT Line £23495 148 97 26 2.0 Blue HDi 180 GT £25945 178 103 29

308 SW 5dr estate Thoughtfully developed and very well appointed but still no class leader AAAAC 1.2 PureTech 110 Access £17145 108 109 13 1.2 PureTech 110 Active £18845 108 109 13 1.2 PureTech 110 Allure £20045 81 111 13 1.2 PureTech 130 Active £19595 128 109 14 1.2 PureTech 130 Allure £20795 128 115 15 1.6 BlueHDi 120 Active £20745 118 85 20 1.6 BlueHDi 120 Allure £21945 118 88 21 1.6 HDi 115 Active £20345 113 95 18 1.6 HDi 115 Allure £21545 113 100 18 1.6 HDi 92 Access £17845 91 99 15 1.6 HDi 92 Active £19545 91 99 15 1.2 PureTech 130 GT Line £22345 128 115 16 1.6 HDi 115 GT Line £23095 113 100 18 2.0 BlueHDi 150 Allure £22845 148 105 24 2.0 BlueHDi 150 GT Line £24395 148 105 26 2.0 BlueHDi 180 GT £26845 178 107 29 508 4dr saloon Competent and likeable package, although lacks any real spark AAABC 2.2 HDi 200 GT £30645 201 140 37 1.6 e-HDi 115 Active Nav £22195 113 109 24 1.6 e-HDi 115 Allure Nav £24295 113 111 25 2.0 HDi 140 Active Nav £22595 140 115 27 2.0 HDi 140 Allure Nav £24695 140 119 28 2.0 BlueHDi 150 Allure Nav £25795 148 101 30 2.0 HDi 163 Allure Nav auto £26595 161 140 30 2.0 HDi Hybrid4 Allure Nav £31995 200 91 36 508 SW 5dr estate As good as saloon, only better looking AAAAC 1.6 e-HDi 115 Active Nav £23395 113 110 24 £25695 113 112 25 1.6 e-HDi 115 Allure Nav 2.0 BlueHDi 150 Allure Nav £27195 148 102 30 2.0 HDi 140 Active Nav £23795 140 120 27 2.0 HDi 140 Allure Nav £26095 140 125 28 2.0 HDi 163 Allure Nav auto £27995 161 144 30 2.2 HDi 200 GT £32045 201 144 37 2008 5dr hatch Efficient and well-mannered but short on space and style AAABC 1.2 VTi 82 Access + £13195 81 114 10 1.2 VTi 82 Active £14295 81 114 11 1.2 VTi 82 Allure £15595 81 114 11 1.6 VTi 120 Allure £16750 118 135 20 1.6 VTi 120 Feline Calima £18150 118 135 19 1.6 VTi 120 Feline Mistral S-S £18450 118 135 19 1.4 HDi 70 Access + £14495 67 104 10 1.4 HDi 70 Active £15595 67 104 10 1.6 e-HDi 92 Active S-S £16245 91 103 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 Active EGC S-S £16845 91 98 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 Allure S-S £17745 91 103 18 1.6 e-HDi 92 Feline Calima £19145 91 103 17 1.6 e-HDi 92 Feline Mistral £19445 91 103 17 1.6 e-HDi 115 Allure S-S £18345 113 105 20 1.6 e-HDi 115 Feline Calima SS £19745 113 105 20 1.6 e-HDi 115 Feline Mistral S £20045 113 105 20 3008 5dr mpv Good handling and flexible cabin. Split tailgate a useful touch AAAAC 2.0 HDi 163 Allure Au £25050 161 145 23 1.6 VTi 120 Access £17550 118 155 17 1.6 VTi 120 Active £19250 118 155 17 1.6 VTi 120 Allure £21200 118 155 17 1.6 THP 156 Allure £22050 154 154 23 1.6 HDi 115 Access £19345 113 125 18 1.6 HDi 115 Active £20795 113 125 18 1.6 HDi 115 Allure £22745 113 127 18 1.6 e-HDI 115 Access EGC £20195 113 110 18 1.6 e-HDI 115 Active EGC £21645 113 110 18 1.6 e-HDI 115 Allure EGC £23595 113 112 17 2.0 HDi FAP 150 Active £21900 148 139 24 2.0 HDi FAP 150 Allure £23850 148 139 22 2.0 HDi Hybrid 4 Active £27245 197 85 30 2.0 HDi Hybrid 4 Allure £28245 197 99 31 5008 5dr mpv Well resolved ride and handling with a useful 7-seat interior AAAAC 1.6 VTi 120 Access £19350 118 159 13 1.6 VTi 120 Active £21100 118 159 15 1.6 THP 156 Allure £23750 154 163 19 1.6 e-HDi 115 Access EGC £21895 113 113 16 1.6 e-HDi 115 Active EGC £23495 113 123 17 1.6 e-HDi 115 Allure EGC £25295 113 126 16 1.6 HDi 115 Access £21045 113 124 16 1.6 HDi 115 Active £22745 113 128 17 1.6 HDi 115 Allure £24550 113 135 16 2.0 HDi 150 Active £23750 148 138 20 2.0 HDi 163 Active auto £24950 161 149 20 2.0 HDi 150 Allure £25550 148 140 20 2.0 HDi 163 Allure auto £26750 161 149 19 RCZ 2dr coupé Classy, interesting, fun coupe.

Peugeot’s got its mojo back AAAAC 1.6 THP 156 Sport £22350 154 149 27 1.6 THP 156 GT £24750 154 149 28 1.6 THP 200 GT £27150 197 155 34 1.6 THP 270 R £32250 266 145 42 2.0 HDi 163 Sport £24200 161 130 29 2.0 HDi 163 GT £26600 161 130 30 PORSCHE BOXSTER 2dr open Honed, toned and cosmetically enhanced. Scarily brilliant AAAAB 2.7 £40098 261 195 40 3.4 S £48553 311 211 43 3.4 GTS £54567 326 211 44 CAYMAN 2dr coupé Roof seals the deal. A five-star car by any measure AAAAA 2.7 £40239 271 195 37 3.4 S £49478 320 211 41 3.4 GTS £56092 335 211 43 911 2dr coupé The best just got better. Still more than worthy of its iconic status AAAAB 3.4 Carrera £74204 345 211 46 3.4 Carrera 4 £79060 345 218 46 3.8 Carrera S £84240 395 223 47 3.8 Carrera 4S £89325 395 233 48 3.8 Turbo £121523 514 227 48 3.8 Turbo S £143045 552 227 48 3.8 GT3 £101695 468 289 48 911 CABRIOLET 2dr open The best just got better.

Still more than worthy of its iconic statusAAAAB 3.4 Carrera £82864 345 216 49 3.8 Carrera S £93129 395 228 50 3.4 Carrera 4 £87720 345 223 49 3.4 Targa 4 £87720 345 223 49 3.8 Carrera 4S £97985 395 235 50

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3.8 Targa 4S £97985 395 237 50 3.8 Turbo £130148 513 231 50 3.8 Turbo S £151782 552 231 50 918 SPYDER 2dr open Porsche’s hybrid hypercar. A rare and hugely fast new five-star modelAAAAA 4.6 V8 £657400 875 70 50 MACAN 5dr 4x4 Spookily good handling. A sports utility vehicle in the purest sense AAAAB 2.0 £41928 234 175 3.0 V6 S £45345 336 212 40 3.6 V6 Turbo £61689 395 216 44 3.0 V6 S Diesel £44871 254 164 39 PANAMERA 5dr hatch Technically brilliant and with a great cabin. Soulless though AAAAC 3.0 V6 S £83134 414 207 46 3.0 V6 4S £86775 414 211 46 3.0 V6 S E-hybrid £84456 410 71 50 3.6 V6 PDK £64458 306 199 46 3.6 V6 4 PDK £68169 306 206 47 4.8 V8 GTS PDK £94316 424 239 50 4.8 V8 Turbo PDK £108931 493 242 50 4.8 V8 Turbo S PDK £132077 562 242 50 3.0D V6 £65639 247 169 46 CAYENNE 5dr 4x4 Classy interior and mostly good fun. Hybrid not entertaining AAAAC 3.0 V6 S E-Hybrid £62154 410 79 49 3.6 V6 £50271 296 215 3.6 V6 S £61770 414 229 48 3.6 V6 GTS £73448 414 234 4.8 V8 Turbo £94729 513 267 50 3.0 V6 Diesel £50846 258 179 45 4.2 V8 S Diesel £62794 380 209 50 PROTON SAVVY 5dr hatch Compromise in quality isn’t worth the saving AACCC 1.2 Style £7995 75 134 8 SATRIA NEO 3dr hatch Best Proton ever, but still unjustifiable AACCC 1.6 GSX £8495 111 157 19 1.6 Sport £9495 111 157 19 GEN-2 4dr saloon Hugely disappointing despite price

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1.6 Persona ecoLogic £11195 110 157 16 GEN-2 5dr hatch Hugely disappointing despite price

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RADICAL SR3 2dr coupé Spectacular on the track; not so good on the way home AAAAC SL £69850 245 - RENAULT TWIZY 2dr hatch Zany solution to personal mobility.

Suitably irreverent and impractical AAABC EV 13kW Urban £6895 17 0 10 EV 13kW Technic £7595 17 0 11 ZOE 5dr hatch Far more practical zero emission solution. Attractive price AAABC Expr. £18443 87 0 15 Dyn’que Zen £20043 87 0 16 Dyn’que Intens £20043 87 0 16 TWINGO 5dr hatch Rear-engined city car is cleverly packaged - but not the class leader AAABC 0.9 TCe 90 Dyn’que Energy £11695 89 99 8 1.0 SCe 70 Expr. £9495 69 105 2 1.0 SCe 70 Play £9995 69 105 3 1.0 SCe 70 Dyn’que S-S £10995 69 95 3 CAPTUR 5dr hatch On message compact crossover.

Better looking than most AAABC 0.9 TCe Expr.+ £14295 89 115 9 0.9 TCe 90 Dyn’que Media Nav £15395 89 115 9 0.9 TCe 90 Dyn’que S Media N £16795 89 115 10 1.2 TCe 120 Dyn’que Media N £17695 118 125 14 1.2 TCe 120 Dyn’que S MediaN £19195 118 125 15 1.5 dCi 90 Expr.+ £15995 89 95 11 1.5 dCi 90 Dyn’que Media Nav £16995 89 95 12 1.5 dCi 90 Dyn’que S Media N £18495 89 95 12 CLIO 5dr hatch Attractive, nice to drive and practical.

Only the Fiesta does it better AAAAC 1.2 TCe 120 GT-Line EDC £17725 118 120 14 1.6 Renaultsport 200 Lux £20295 197 144 29 1.2 75 Expr. £11145 75 127 7 1.2 75 Expr. + £12675 75 127 8 1.2 75 Dyn’que Media Nav £13675 75 127 8 0.9 TCe 90 Expr. + £13675 89 104 9 0.9 TCe 90 Eco Expr. + £13925 89 99 9 0.9 TCe 90 Dyn’que Media Nav £14675 89 104 9 0.9 TCe Eco Dyn’que Media Nav £14925 89 99 9 0.9 TCe 90 Dyn’que S Media Nav £15675 89 105 10 1.6 Renaultsport 200 £19145 197 144 29 1.5 dCi 90 Expr. + £14975 89 90 13 1.5 dCi 90 Eco Expr. + £15225 89 83 13 1.5 dCi 90 Dyn’que Media Nav £15975 89 90 13 1.5 dCi 90 Eco Dyn’q Media Nav £16225 89 83 13 1.5 dCi 90 Dyn’q S Media Nav £16975 89 90 13 MEGANE 5dr hatch Stylish and refined but bland.

Nothing exceptional AAACC 1.2 TCe 130 GT Line TomTom EDC £21470 113 119 15 1.2 TCe 115 Expr.+ S-S £17570 113 119 14 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £18570 113 119 14 1.2 TCe 115 GT Line S-S £20070 113 119 15 1.6 110 Expr.+ £16750 109 159 14 1.6 110 Dyn’que TomTom £17750 109 159 15 1.5 dCi 110 Expr.+ S-S £18245 109 90 16 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £19245 109 90 17 1.5 dCi 110 GT Line TomTom S-S £20745 109 90 18 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £19745 128 104 20 1.6 dCi 130 GT Line TomTom S-S £21245 128 104 20 MEGANE SPORT TOURER 5dr estate Stylish and refined but bland. Nothing exceptionalAAACC 1.2 TCe 115 Expr.+ S-S £18570 113 119 14 1.2 TCe 130 GT Line TomTom EDC £22470 113 119 15 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn’que TomTom S-S £19570 113 119 14 1.2 TCe 115 GT Line TomTom S-S £21070 113 119 15 1.6 VVT 110 Expr.+ £17750 109 159 14 1.6 VVT 110 Dyn’que TomTom £18750 109 159 15 1.5 dCi 110 Expr.+ S-S £19245 109 90 16 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’que TomTom S-S £20245 109 90 17 1.5 dCi 110 GT Line TomTom S-S £21745 109 90 18 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’que TomTom S-S £20745 128 104 20

1.6 dCi 130 GT Line TomTom S-S £22245 128 104 20 MEGANE 3dr coupé Stylish but average in normal guise. R’sport excellent AAACC 1.2 TCe 130 GT Line TomTom EDC £22245 113 119 15 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £19345 113 119 15 1.2 TCe 115 GT Line TomTom S-S £20845 113 119 15 1.6 VVT 110 Dyn’que TomTom £18250 109 159 15 2.0T Renaultsport 265 £25935 261 174 36 2.0T Renaultsport 275 Trophy £28930 271 174 36 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £20945 109 90 17 1.5 dCi 110 GT Line TomTom S-S £22445 109 90 18 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’ TomTom S-S £21445 129 104 20 1.6 dCi 130 GT Line TomTom S-S £22945 129 104 20 MEGANE CC2dr cc Not much fun to drive. Nice cabin, 1.4 TCe short on pace AABCC 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn’que TomTom £23800 118 169 19 1.2 TCe 130 GT Line TomTom £25300 118 169 19 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’que TomTom £24545 109 124 17 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’que TomTom £25045 109 124 17 1.6 dCi 130 GT Line TomTom £26545 109 124 17 SCENIC 5dr mpv Still a class act. Well priced and equipped AAABC 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn. TomTom XMOD £22405 113 140 18 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn’que TomTom S £20905 113 140 18 1.6 VVT 110 Expr.+ XMOD £18165 109 178 19 1.6 VVT 110 Dyn’que TomTom £19365 109 174 19 1.6 VVT 110 Dyn TomTom XMOD £19370 109 178 19 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn. TomTom S-S £20555 113 135 18 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn TomTom XMOD £20455 113 140 18 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn. TomTom S-S £21395 109 105 19 1.5 dCi 110 Expr.+ XMOD £19945 109 128 19 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn TomTom XMOD £21395 109 105 19 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn. TomTom S-S £22495 128 114 23 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn TomTom XMOD £22495 128 114 24 GRAND SCENIC 5dr mpv As above, but with seven seats. Nice cabin and ride AAABC 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn. TomTom S-S £22125 113 140 19 1.2 TCe 115 Dyn. TomTom S-S £21775 113 140 19 1.6 VVT 110 Dyn’que TomTom £20590 109 178 19 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn. TomTom S-S £22615 109 105 19 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn. TomTom S-S £23715 128 114 24 KADJAR 5dr mpv A Qashqai in Renault clothes. Lower prices make it a fine alternative AAAAC 1.2 TCe 130 Expr. + £17995 118 - 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn’que Nav £19695 118 - 1.2 TCe 130 Dyn’que S Nav £20495 118 - 1.2 TCe 130 Signature Nav £21695 118 - 1.5 dCi 110 Expr. + £19895 108 - 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’que Nav £21595 108 - 1.5 dCi 110 Dyn’que S Nav £22395 108 - 1.5 dCi 110 Signature Nav £23595 108 - 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’que Nav £22795 128 - 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’que Nav 4WD £24295 128 - £23595 128 - 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’que S Nav 1.6 dCi 130 Dyn’ S Nav 4WD £25095 128 - 1.6 dCi 130 Signature Nav £24795 128 - 1.6 dCi 130 Signature Nav 4WD £26295 128 - ROLLS-ROYCE GHOST 4dr saloon The best driver’s car in the stable.

Fabulously indulgent AAAAC 6.6 V12 £200500 563 317 6.6 V12 EWB £230000 563 317 PHANTOM 4dr saloon Opulence befitting the price tag. Benchmark ride quality AAAAC 6.8 V12 £285200 453 347 6.8 V12 EWB £336700 453 380 PHANTOM 2dr coupé Opulence befitting the price tag. Benchmark ride quality AAAAC 6.8 V12 £313200 453 377 PHANTOM 2dr open Opulence befitting the price tag.

Benchmark ride quality AAAAC 6.8 V12 Drophead £332400 453 377 WRAITH 2dr coupé 6.6 V12 £230320 642 327 50 SEAT MII 3dr hatch Predictably not quite as good as the VW Up. Cheaper, though AAABC 1.0 60 S £8195 59 105 1 1.0 60 S AC £8705 59 105 1 1.0 60 SE £9630 59 105 1 1.0 60 Toca £9995 59 105 1 1.0 60 Ecomotive £9530 59 96 1 1.0 75 SE auto £10760 74 105 2 1.0 75 Sport £10380 74 108 2 MII 5dr hatch Predictably not quite as good as the VW Up. Cheaper, though AAABC 1.0 60 S £8545 59 105 1 1.0 60 S AC £9055 59 105 1 1.0 60 SE £9980 59 105 1 1.0 60 Toca £10345 59 105 1 1.0 60 Ecomotive £9880 59 96 1 1.0 75 SE auto £11110 74 105 2 1.0 75 Sport £10730 74 108 2 IBIZA 3dr hatch Sharp looks and handling. Cupra needs a manual AAABC 1.2 12v 70 S A-C £11410 69 125 5 1.4 85 SE £12545 84 139 9 1.4 85 Toca £12870 84 139 11 1.2 TSI 105 SE DSG £14185 104 124 12 1.2 TSI 105 FR £14190 104 119 12 1.2 TSI 105 FR DSG £15285 104 124 12 1.4 TSI 140 ACT FR £15495 138 109 21 1.4 TSI 140 ACT FR Edition £16110 138 109 22 1.4 TSI 180 Cupra DSG £18980 178 139 27 1.2 TDI 75 S A-C £13305 74 102 7 1.2 TDI 75 S A-C Ecomotive £13830 74 92 7 1.2 TDI 75 SE Ecomotive £14360 74 92 7 1.6 TDI 105 SE £14910 104 112 14 1.6 TDI 105 FR £15910 104 112 14 2.0 TDI 143 FR £17085 141 123 22 IBIZA 5dr hatch Sharp looks and handling. Cupra needs a manual AAABC 1.2 12v 70 S A-C £11960 69 125 5 1.4 85 SE £13095 84 139 9 1.4 85 Toca £13420 84 139 11 1.2 TSI 105 SE DSG £14735 104 124 12 1.2 TSI 105 FR £14740 104 119 12 1.2 TSI 105 FR DSG £15835 104 124 12 1.4 TSI 140 ACT FR £16045 138 109 21 1.4 TSI 140 ACT FR Edition £16660 138 109 22 1.2 TDI 75 S A-C £13855 74 102 7

1.2 TDI 75 S A-C Ecomotive £14380 74 92 7 1.2 TDI 75 SE Ecomotive £14910 74 92 7 1.6 TDI 105 SE £15460 104 112 14 1.6 TDI 105 FR £16460 104 112 14 2.0 TDI 143 FR £17635 141 123 22 IBIZA 5dr estate Rivals are more practical but Ibiza is fun AAACC 1.2 70 S A-C £12660 69 128 5 1.4 85 SE £13795 84 139 9 1.4 85 Toca £14120 84 139 11 1.2 TSI 105 SE DSG £15435 103 124 12 1.2 TSI 105 FR £15440 103 119 12 1.4 TSI 140 ACT FR £16745 138 109 21 1.2 TDI 75 S A-C £14555 74 105 7 1.2 TDI 75 S A-C Ecomotive £15080 74 92 7 1.2 TDI 75 SE Ecomotive £15610 74 92 7 1.6 TDI 105 SE £16160 104 112 14 1.6 TDI 105 FR £17160 104 112 14 TOLEDO 5dr hatch Makes practical sense, but leaves no other lasting impression AAACC 1.2 TSI 85 S £14265 84 119 10 1.2 TSI 105 S £15295 104 116 13 1.2 TSI 105 SE £16515 104 118 14 1.4 TSI 122 SE DSG £17965 120 134 17 1.6 TDI 105 CR S Ecomotive £17150 104 104 15 1.6 TDI 105 CR SE Ecomotive £18370 104 106 15 LEON 3dr hatch Sharp looks and handling. Back from the Golf’s quality, but good value AAAAC 1.6 TDI 110 SE Ecomotive £19625 108 87 14 1.2 TSI 110 S £15815 108 114 13 1.2 TSI 110 SE £16935 108 114 13 1.4 TSI 125 SE £17535 123 120 16 1.4 TSI 150 FR £19700 148 109 20 1.8 TSI 180 FR £20740 178 137 25 2.0 TSI 265 Cupra £25960 261 154 32 2.0 TSI 280 Cupra £27210 276 154 33 1.6 TDI CR 105 S £17515 104 99 13 1.6 TDI CR 105 SE £18635 104 99 13 2.0 TDI CR 150 SE £19985 148 106 19 2.0 TDI CR 150 FR £21530 148 106 20 2.0 TDI CR 184 FR £22520 181 109 26 LEON 5dr hatch Sharp looks and handling. Back from the Golf’s quality, but good value AAAAC 1.6 TDI 110 SE Ecomotive £19925 108 87 14 1.2 TSI 110 S £16115 108 114 13 1.2 TSI 110 SE £17235 108 114 13 1.4 TSI 125 SE £17835 123 120 16 1.4 TSI 150 FR £20000 148 109 20 1.8 TSI 180 FR £21040 178 137 25 2.0 TDI CR 184 FR £22820 181 109 26 2.0 TSI 280 Cupra £27510 276 154 33 1.6 TDI CR 105 S £17815 104 99 13 1.6 TDI CR 105 SE £18935 104 99 13 2.0 TDI CR 150 SE £20285 148 106 19 2.0 TDI CR 150 FR £21830 148 106 20 LEON 5dr estate Sharp looks and handling. Back from the Golf’s quality, but good value AAAAC 1.2 TSI 105 S £16675 104 114 12 1.2 TSI 105 SE £17795 104 114 13 1.4 TSI 140 FR £20390 138 122 18 1.4 TSI 140 SE £18845 138 122 17 1.6 TDI 110 SE Ecomotive £20920 108 87 14 1.6 TDI CR 105 S £18810 104 99 13 1.6 TDI CR 105 SE £19930 104 99 13 1.8 TSI 180 FR £22035 178 137 25 2.0 TDI CR 150 FR £22825 148 106 20 £21280 148 106 19 2.0 TDI CR 150 SE 2.0 TDI CR 184 FR £23815 181 112 26 2.0 TDI 150 SE X-Perience £24385 148 129 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE Tech X-Perience £26370 148 129 20 2.0 TDI 184 SE Tech X-Perience £28870 181 129 23 ALTEA 5dr hatch Short on interior flexibility and visibility. Well-judged drive AAACC 1.6 TDI 105 i-Tech Ecomotive £15445 103 119 14 2.0 TDI 140 i-Tech £16245 138 129 19 XL 1.6 TDI 105 i-Tech Ecomotiv £16165 103 119 13 XL 2.0 TDI 140 i-Tech £16965 138 129 19 ALHAMBRA 5dr mpv Practical, refined and good value. Not exciting AAAAC 2.0 TDI 140 Ecomotive S £25630 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 140 Ecomotive SE £27510 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 140 Ecomotive I-TECH £28630 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 140 Eco’ SE Lux £30900 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 177 SE £28750 138 158 22 2.0 TDI 177 SE Lux £32420 138 158 22 SKODA CITIGO 3dr hatch The VW Up in entry-level Skoda format AAABC 1.0 60 S £8275 59 105 1 1.0 60 SE £9135 59 105 1 1.0 60 Monte Carlo £10670 59 105 2 1.0 60 Greentech SE £9495 59 95 1 1.0 60 Greentech Eleg. £10010 59 95 1 1.0 75 Greentech Eleg. £10400 74 98 2 CITIGO 5dr hatch The VW Up in entry-level Skoda format AAABC 1.0 60 S £8625 59 105 1 1.0 60 SE £9485 59 105 1 1.0 60 Monte Carlo £11020 59 105 2 1.0 60 Greentech SE £9845 59 95 1 1.0 60 Greentech Eleg. £10360 59 95 1 1.0 75 Greentech Eleg. £10750 74 98 2 FABIA 5dr hatch Straight-laced for a supermini, but as likeable an all-rounder as you’ll findAAAAC 1.0 60 S £10600 59 106 2 1.0 75 S £11460 74 108 4 1.0 75 SE £12820 74 108 3 1.0 75 SE L £13610 74 108 3 1.2 TSI 90 SE £13450 89 107 8 1.2 TSI 90 SE L £14240 89 107 8 1.2 TSI 110 S DSG £13740 108 109 13 1.2 TSI 110 SE £14100 108 110 12 1.2 TSI 110 SE L £14890 108 110 12 1.4 TDI 90 S £14090 89 93 12 1.4 TDI 90 SE £15450 89 93 10 1.4 TDI 90 SE L £16240 89 93 11 1.4 TDI 105 SE L £16840 104 95 12 FABIA 5dr estate 1.0 75 S £12460 74 109 4 1.0 75 SE £13965 74 109 3 1.0 75 SE L £14755 74 109 3 1.2 TSI 110 S DSG £14740 108 109 13

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NEW CARS A-Z 1.2 TSI 110 SE £15245 108 110 12 1.2 TSI 110 SE L £16035 108 110 12 1.2 TSI 90 SE £14595 89 107 8 1.2 TSI 90 SE L £15385 89 107 8 1.4 TDI 105 SE L £17985 104 97 12 1.4 TDI 90 S £15090 89 94 10 1.4 TDI 90 SE £16595 89 94 10 1.4 TDI 90 SE L £17385 89 94 11 RAPID 5dr hatch 1.6 TDI 105 E £17145 103 114 16 1.6 TDI 90 Eleg. £17715 103 114 13 1.6 TDI 90 GreenLine £17975 103 99 13 1.6 TDI 90 GreenTech Eleg. £17965 103 104 13 1.6 TDI 90 GreenTech SE £17215 103 104 13 1.6 TDI 90 S £16015 103 114 13 1.6 TDI 90 SE £16965 103 114 13 1.2 75 S £13350 74 137 7 1.2 TSI 86 S £14140 84 119 10 1.2 TSI 86 SE £15090 84 119 10 1.2 TSI 86 GreenTech S £14390 84 114 10 1.2 TSI 86 GreenTech SE £15340 84 114 10 1.2 TSI 105 SE £15790 104 125 13 1.2 TSI 105 Eleg. £16540 104 125 13 1.2 TSI 105 GreenTech SE £16040 104 118 13 1.2 TSI 105 GreenTech Eleg. £16790 104 118 13 1.2 TSI 105 Sport £15840 104 125 15 1.4 TSI 122 SE DSG £17585 120 134 16 1.4 TSI 122 Eleg. DSG £18335 120 134 16 1.4 TSI 122 GreenTech SE DSG £17705 120 127 18 1.4 TSI 122 GreenTech Eleg. £18455 120 127 18 1.6 TDI 105 S £16590 103 114 16 1.6 TDI 105 SE £17540 103 114 15 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. £18290 103 114 15 1.6 TDI 105 GreenTech SE £17790 103 106 15 1.6 TDI 105 GreenTech Eleg. £18540 103 106 15 RAPID SPACEBACK 5dr estate Estate shape makes most sense of Rapid’s skinny bodyAAABC 1.2 TSI 105 Eleg. £16640 104 125 14 1.2 TSI 105 Greentech Eleg. £16890 104 118 14 1.2 TSI 105 Greentech SE £16430 104 118 15 1.2 TSI 105 SE £16180 104 125 14 1.2 TSI 86 Greentech S £14750 84 114 12 1.2 TSI 86 Greentech SE £15730 84 114 12 1.2 TSI 86 S £14500 84 119 11 1.2 TSI 86 SE £15480 84 119 12 1.4 TSI 122 Eleg. DSG £18445 120 134 18 1.4 TSI 122 Greentech SE DSG £18105 120 127 18 1.4 TSI 122 G’tech Eleg. DS £18565 120 127 18 1.4 TSI 122 SE DSG £17985 120 134 17 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. £18390 103 114 16 1.6 TDI 105 Greentech Eleg. £18640 103 106 16 1.6 TDI 105 Greentech SE £18180 103 106 16 1.6 TDI 105 S £16950 103 114 15 1.6 TDI 105 SE £17930 103 114 16 1.6 TDI 90 GreenLine £17355 89 99 14 1.6 TDI 90 GreenTech Eleg. £17990 89 106 14 1.6 TDI 90 GreenTech SE £17530 89 106 14 1.6 TDI 90 S £16300 89 114 13 1.6 TDI 90 SE £17280 89 114 14 1.6 TDI 90 Eleg. £17740 89 114 14 OCTAVIA 5dr hatch Extended wheelbase makes the Octavia an even more practical choice AAABC 1.6 TDI 105 SE Business £19775 104 99 14 1.2 TSI 105 S £16525 104 114 13 1.2 TSI 105 SE £17875 104 114 13 1.4 TSI 140 SE £19075 138 121 18 1.4 TSI 140 Eleg. £20775 138 121 19 1.8 TSI 180 Laurin & Klement £26630 178 135 25 2.0 TSI 220 vRS £23830 217 142 29 1.6 TDI 105 S £18575 104 99 13 1.6 TDI 105 SE £19925 104 99 13 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. £21625 104 99 14 1.6 TDI 110 Greenline £20225 108 90 15 1.6 TDI 110 SE Business Greenl £20225 108 90 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE £20535 148 106 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE Business £20535 148 106 20 2.0 TDI 150 Eleg. £22525 148 106 20 2.0 TDI 150 Laurin & Klement £26465 148 107 22 2.0 TDI 184 vRS £24075 181 115 26 OCTAVIA 5dr estate Extended wheelbase makes the Octavia an even more practical choice AAABC 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. 4x4 £23880 104 119 14 1.6 TDI 105 SE 4x4 £22180 104 119 13 1.6 TDI 105 SE Business £20580 104 99 13 1.6 TDI 110 GreenLine £21425 108 90 15 1.6 TDI 110 SE Business G’line £21425 108 90 19 2.0 TDI 150 Eleg. 4x4 £24780 148 124 20 2.0 TDI 150 SE 4x4 £23185 148 120 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE Business £21735 148 106 19 1.2 TSI 105 S £17330 104 117 13 1.2 TSI 105 SE £18680 104 117 13 1.4 TSI 140 SE £19880 138 121 18 1.4 TSI 140 Eleg. £21580 138 121 19 1.8 TSI 180 Laurin & Klement £27830 178 136 25 2.0 TSI 220 vRS £25030 217 142 29 1.6 TDI 105 S £19380 104 99 13 £20730 104 99 13 1.6 TDI 105 SE 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. £22430 104 99 14 2.0 TDI 150 SE £21735 148 106 19 2.0 TDI 150 Scout 4x4 £25405 148 125 2.0 TDI 150 Eleg. £23330 148 110 20 2.0 TDI 150 Laurin & Klement £27665 148 107 22 2.0 TDI 150 Laurin Klement 4x4 £29115 148 122 21 2.0 TDI 184 Scout 4x4 £28200 181 129 2.0 TDI 184 vRS £25275 181 117 26 ROOMSTER 5dr mpv Quirky looks, talented package, awkward image AAABC 1.2 S £12105 69 143 5 1.2 SE £13575 69 143 6 1.2 TSI 85 S £12750 84 134 9 1.2 TSI 85 SE £14135 84 134 9 1.2 TSI 85 Scout £14685 84 134 9 1.2 TSI 105 S auto £14185 104 134 12 1.2 TSI 105 SE £14800 104 134 12 1.2 TSI 105 Scout £15350 104 134 12 1.2 TDI 75 Greenline II £16325 74 109 9 1.6 TDI CR 90 SE £15415 89 124 11 1.6 TDI CR 90 Scout £15965 89 124 11 1.6 TDI CR 105 SE £15640 104 124 13 1.6 TDI CR 105 Scout £16190 104 124 13 YETI 5dr 4x4 Useful, versatile cabin. Good handling and engines AAAAC 1.6 TDI 105 Outdoor SE B’nes G £19915 103 119 14

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SMART FORTWO 3dr hatch A better Fortwo than ever, but there’s no new reason to buy it AAABC 0.9 90 Passion £11720 89 97 0.9 90 Prime £12415 89 97 0.9 90 Proxy £12415 89 97 1.0 70 Passion £11125 70 93 1.0 70 Prime £11820 70 93 1.0 70 Proxy £11820 70 93 FORFOUR 5dr hatch Four doors makes the smart more mainstream. Still expensive, though AAABC 1.0 70 Passion £11620 70 97 1.0 70 Prime £12315 70 97 1.0 70 Proxy £12315 70 97 1.0 70 Edition 1 £13365 70 97 0.9 90 Passion £12215 89 99 0.9 90 Prime £12910 89 99 0.9 90 Proxy £12910 89 99 0.9 90 Edition 1 £14315 89 99 SSANGYONG KORANDO 5dr hatch Good for a Ssangyong, poor by class standards AACCC 2.0d SE 2WD £14995 147 147 19 2.0d SE4 4WD £16495 147 157 19 2.0d ELX4 4WD £19995 173 157 19 TIVOLI 5dr hatch Trails the Duster as the best-value small crossover - but not by much AAACC 1.6 D EX 4WD £17100 113 113 1.6 SE £12950 126 149 1.6 EX £15600 126 149 1.6 ELX £16000 126 149 1.6 D SE £14200 113 113 1.6 D EX £15850 113 113 1.6 D ELX £17250 113 113 1.6 D ELX 4WD £19500 113 113 REXTON W 5dr 4x4 Rugged seven-seater makes short work of mud. Tarmac more tricky AABC 2.0 SX £21995 155 196 2.0 EX £24495 155 196 TURISMO 5dr mpv Incredibly ungainly but offers huge real estate for the money AAACC 2.0D S £17995 155 199 27 2.0D ES £19995 155 199 27 2.0D EX £23995 155 212 29 SUBARU FORESTER 5dr 4x4 Solid, spacious and willfully unsexy AAACC 2.0i XE £25495 147 160 23 2.0i XE Premium £27495 147 160 23 2.0i XT Turbo CVT £30995 237 197 34 2.0d X £24995 145 150 24 2.0d XC £26995 145 156 25 2.0d XC Premium £29495 145 156 25 XV 5dr 4x4 No nonsense crossover doesn’t quite make enough sense AAACC 2.0i SE £21995 148 160 21 2.0i SE Premium £23995 148 160 22 2.0D SE £23995 144 146 26 2.0D SE Premium £25995 144 146 27 OUTBACK ESTATE 5dr 4x4 Acceptable in isolation but no benchmark AABCC 2.5i SE Lineartronic £28495 163 161 19 2.5i SE Premium Lineartronic £31495 163 161 20 2.0D SE £27995 148 145 22 2.0D SE Premium £30995 148 145 23 WRX STI 4dr saloon Appealingly old fashioned and behind the times all at once AAABC 2.5 STI £28995 296 242 40 BRZ 2dr coupé The GT-86’s half brother looks just as good in Subaru blue. Cheaper, too AAAAA 2.0i SE £22495 197 181 30 2.0i SE Lux £23995 197 181 31 SUZUKI CELERIO 5dr hatch Roomy, decent to drive and a bargain price AAABC 1.0 AGS SZ4 £9799 68 99 1.0 Dualjet SZ3 £8499 68 84 1.0 SZ2 £6999 68 99 1.0 SZ3 £7999 68 99 1.0 SZ4 £8999 68 99 SWIFT 3dr hatch Cute looks and rewarding handling.

Sport is excellent fun AAABC 1.2 SZ2 £8999 93 116 11 1.2 SZ3 £10599 93 116 11 1.2 SZ4 £11699 93 116 11 1.6 Sport £13999 134 147 19 SWIFT 5dr hatch Cute looks and rewarding handling.

Sport is excellent fun AAABC 1.2 SZ3 4x4 £12099 93 116 11 1.2 SZ4 4x4 £13699 93 116 11 1.2 SZ2 £9499 93 116 11 1.2 SZ3 £11099 93 116 11

1.2 SZ4 £12199 93 116 11 1.6 Sport £14499 134 147 19 SX4 S-CROSS 5dr hatch Not class-leading, but a very worthy crossover also-ran AAABC 1.6 SZ3 £13999 118 127 13 1.6 SZ-T £17999 118 127 13 1.6 SZ5 £20249 118 127 14 1.6 SZ5 Allgrip £22049 118 135 14 1.6 DDiS SZ3 £16999 118 110 20 1.6 DDiS SZ4 £17999 118 110 20 1.6 DDiS SZ-T £19499 118 110 20 1.6 DDiS SZ-T Allgrip £21299 118 114 18 1.6 DDiS SZ5 £21749 118 110 19 1.6 DDiS SZ5 Allgrip £23549 118 114 19 VITARA 5dr 4x4 Utterly worthy addition to the class.

Drives better than most AAABC 1.6 SZ5 AllGrip £19799 118 123 1.6 SZ4 £13999 118 123 1.6 SZ-T £15499 118 123 1.6 SZ5 £17999 118 123 1.6 DDiS SZ-T £16999 118 106 1.6 DDiS SZ5 £19499 118 106 1.6 DDiS SZ5 AllGrip £21299 118 106 TESLA MODEL S 5dr hatch Brings luxury, range and, critically, credibility to electric offerings AAAAB 60kWh £52680 245 - 85kWh £58680 416 - 85kWh Dual Motor £62780 416 - 85kWh Performance £79080 416 - TOYOTA AYGO 3dr hatch Probably the best of its ilk, but we’d still pay the premium for a VW Up AAABC 1.0 x £8695 68 95 6 1.0 x-play £9895 68 95 7 1.0 x-pression £11095 68 95 7 1.0 x-cite £11295 68 95 7 1.0 x-clusiv £11395 68 95 7 AYGO 5dr hatch Probably the best of its ilk, but we’d still pay the premium for a VW Up AAABC 1.0 x £9095 68 95 6 1.0 x-play £10295 68 95 7 1.0 x-pression £11495 68 95 7 1.0 x-cite £11695 68 95 7 1.0 x-clusiv £11795 68 95 7 YARIS 3dr hatch Good space and value, but not a class leader AAABC 1.0 VVT-i Active £10995 68 99 4 1.0 VVT-i Icon £12745 68 99 5 YARIS 5dr hatch Good space and value, but not a class leader AAABC 1.0 VVT-i Active £11595 68 99 4 1.0 VVT-i Icon £13345 68 99 5 1.33 VVT-i Icon £14095 98 114 10 1.33 VVT-i Sport £14995 98 119 10 1.33 VVT-i Excel £15695 98 119 10 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid Icon £16195 98 75 10 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid Excel £17695 98 82 11 1.4 D-4D Icon £15595 89 99 11 AURIS 5dr hatch Disappointingly average. There are many better rivals AABCC 1.33 VVT-i Active £14945 99 128 7 1.33 VVT-i Icon £17645 99 128 8 1.33 VVT-i Icon plus £18445 99 128 10 1.6 V-matic Icon £17995 130 138 14 1.6 V-matic Icon CVT £18995 130 134 14 1.6 V-matic Icon plus £18795 130 138 16 1.6 V-matic Excel £20250 130 140 14 1.8 VVT-i Icon Hybrid £20645 134 84 12 1.8 VVT-i Icon plus Hybrid £21545 134 86 14 1.8 VVT-i Excel Hybrid £22890 134 91 12 1.4 D-4D Active £16295 89 99 10 1.4 D-4D Icon £18995 89 103 10 1.4 D-4D Icon plus £19795 89 103 10 1.4 D-4D Excel £21495 89 107 10 AURIS 5dr estate Nothing wrong, but nothing exceptional. Good spec AAACC 1.33 VVT-i Active £16045 99 130 7 1.33 VVT-i Icon £18745 99 130 8 1.4 D-4D Active £17395 89 109 10 1.4 D-4D Excel £22595 89 112 10 1.4 D-4D Icon £20095 89 109 10 1.6 V-matic Icon £19095 130 140 14 1.8 VVT-i Icon Hybrid £21745 134 85 12 1.6 V-matic Excel £21350 130 143 14 1.8 VVT-i Excel Hybrid £23990 134 92 12 PRIUS 5dr hatch Clever and appealing in its own right, not just as a hybrid AAAAC 1.8 VVT-i T3 £21995 134 89 15 1.8 VVT-i T4 £23745 134 92 15 1.8 VVT-i T Spirit £25295 134 92 15 1.8 VVT-i Plug-In £33395 134 49 16 PRIUS+ 5dr mpv Expensive and ugly. Bigger though

AAABC

1.8 VVT-i Icon £26995 178 96 15 1.8 VVT-i Excel £29245 178 101 15 1.8 VVT-i Excel Plus £31245 178 101 16 RAV4 5dr 4x4 A solid option, but ultimately outgunned

by Korean competition AAABC 2.0 V-matic CVT Icon 4WD £26305 150 167 29 2.0 D-4D Active 2WD £22795 124 127 26 2.0 D-4D Icon 2WD £25295 124 127 26 2.0 D-4D Icon 4WD £26300 124 137 26 2.0 D-4D Invincible 2WD £27245 124 127 27 2.0 D-4D Invincible 4WD £28250 124 137 26 2.2 D-4D Icon 4WD £27100 148 149 29 2.2 D-4D Invincible 4WD £29050 148 149 29 AVENSIS 4dr saloon Nothing wrong, but nothing exceptional. Good spec AAACC 1.8 V-matic Active £17700 145 152 17 1.8 V-matic Icon £20300 145 152 18 1.8 V-matic Icon+ £23250 145 152 18 2.0 D-4D Active £18695 124 119 22 2.0 D-4D Icon £21295 124 119 22 2.0 D-4D Icon+ £24245 124 119 23 2.0 D-4D Excel £24495 124 119 23 2.2 D-4D 150 Icon £23450 148 143 25 2.2 D-4D 150 Icon+ £25250 148 143 25 2.2 D-4D 150 Excel £25500 148 145 26 2.2 D-CAT 150 Icon £23400 148 165 25 2.2 D-CAT 150 Icon+ £26350 148 165 25

2.2 D-CAT 150 Excel £26600 148 167 26 AVENSIS TOURER 5dr estate Nothing wrong, but nothing exceptional. Good spec AAACC 1.8 V-matic Active £18750 145 153 17 1.8 V-matic Icon £21350 145 153 18 1.8 V-matic Icon+ £24300 145 153 18 2.0 D-4D Active £19745 124 120 22 2.0 D-4D Icon £22345 124 120 22 2.0 D-4D Icon+ £25295 124 120 23 2.0 D-4D Excel £26145 124 119 23 2.2 D-4D 150 Icon £24500 148 147 25 2.2 D-4D 150 Icon+ £26300 148 147 25 2.2 D-4D 150 Excel £27150 148 149 26 2.2 D-CAT 150 Icon £24450 148 170 25 2.2 D-CAT 150 Icon+ £27405 148 170 25 2.2 D-CAT 150 Excel £28250 148 173 26 VERSO 5dr mpv Ride is firm and boot space limited with all seats in use AAACC 1.6 V-matic Active 5st £17770 130 157 13 1.6 V-matic Active 7st £18300 130 157 13 1.6 V-matic Icon 7st £20300 130 157 14 1.8 V-matic Icon M’Drive 7st £21800 145 153 15 1.8 V-matic Excel M’Drive 7st £24300 145 150 15 1.6 D-4D Active £19990 122 119 13 1.6 D-4D Icon £21995 122 119 14 LAND CRUISER V8 5dr 4x4 A dinosaur, but likeable. Pricey to buy and run AAACC 4.5 D-4D £65725 286 250 48 LAND CRUISER 3dr 4x4 A real go-anywhere vehicle. Spongey on road AAACC 3.0 D-4D 188 LC3 £32765 185 214 31 LAND CRUISER 5dr 4x4 A real go-anywhere vehicle. Spongey on road AAACC 3.0 D-4D 190 LC3 £37015 187 213 31 3.0 D-4D 190 LC4 £47465 187 213 34 3.0 D-4D 190 LC5 £52915 187 213 38 GT86 2dr coupé A tail-out tribute to all our favourite things. Splendid. Cheaper now, too AAAAA 2.0 Primo £23000 197 180 33 2.0 GT86 £25000 197 180 33 2.0 Aero £27500 197 192 33 2.0 Giallo £27500 197 180 34 2.0 GT86 auto £25995 197 164 33 VAUXHALL VIVA 5dr hatch Comfortable and spacious, although class leaders are sweeter to drive AAABC 1.0 Ecoflex SE A-C £8665 73 99 1.0 SE A-C £8490 73 104 1.0 SE £7995 73 104 1.0 Ecoflex SE £8170 73 99 1.0 SL £9495 73 104 ADAM 3dr hatch Certainly looks the part, but there are better superminis ahead of it AAABC 1.0 S-S Jam £13630 113 114 3 1.0 S-S Glam £15000 113 114 3 1.0 S-S Slam £15500 113 114 3 1.0 S-S Rocks Air £16995 113 119 3 1.2 Jam £11630 69 124 3 1.2 Jam S-S £11925 69 118 3 1.2 Glam £13000 69 124 3 1.2 Glam S-S £13295 69 118 3 1.2 Slam £13500 69 124 3 1.2 Slam S-S £13795 69 118 3 1.4 87 Jam £11955 86 129 6 1.4 87 Glam £13325 86 129 6 1.4 87 Slam £13825 86 129 6 1.4 100 Jam £12480 99 129 9 1.4 100 Jam S-S £12775 99 119 9 1.4 100 Glam £13850 99 129 9 1.4 100 Glam S-S £14145 99 119 9 1.4 100 Slam £14350 99 129 9 1.4 100 Slam S-S £14645 99 119 9 1.4T 150 Grand Slam £16995 148 139 14 CORSA 3dr hatch Very refined, stylish and practical.

Engines not so good AAABC 1.0i 90 S-S Design £12910 89 102 9 1.0i 90 S-S SRi £13605 89 102 9 1.0i 90 S-S SE £14250 89 102 9 1.0i 115 S-S Sting £10825 113 - 12 1.0i 115 S-S Sting R £11175 113 - 12 1.0i 115 S-S SRi VX-Line £14640 113 - 12 1.2i 70 Life £11080 69 126 2 1.2i 70 Sting £9175 69 126 2 1.2i 70 Design £11080 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SRi £11775 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SRi VX-Line £12810 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SE £12420 69 126 2 1.4i 90 Life £11425 89 121 6 1.4i 90 Sting £9520 89 121 1.4i 90 Design £11425 89 121 1.4i 90 Easytronic Design £12080 89 119 1.4i 90 SRi £12120 89 121 1.4i 90 SRi VX-Line £13155 89 121 1.4i 90 SE £12765 89 121 1.4i 100 Turbo SRi £12775 99 119 10 1.4i 100 Turbo SRi VX-Line £13810 99 119 10 1.4i 100 Turbo SE £13420 99 119 10 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S Life £13330 74 99 6 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S Design £13330 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SRi £14025 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SRi VX-Line £15060 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SE £14670 74 99 £14525 94 85 9 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SRi 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SRi VX-Line £15560 94 85 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SE £15170 94 85 CORSA 5dr hatch Very refined, stylish and practical.

Engines not so good AAABC 1.0i 90 S-S Design £13510 89 102 9 1.0i 90 S-S SRi £14205 89 102 9 1.0i 90 S-S SE £14850 89 102 9 1.0i 115 S-S Sting £11425 113 - 12 1.0i 115 S-S SRi VX-Line £15240 113 - 12 1.2i 70 Life £11680 69 126 2 1.2i 70 Sting £9775 69 126 2 1.2i 70 Design £12745 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SRi £12375 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SRi VX-Line £13410 69 126 2 1.2i 70 SE £13020 69 126 2 1.4i 90 Life £12025 89 121 1.4i 90 Sting £10120 89 121 1.4i 90 Design £12025 89 121 1.4i 90 Easytronic Design £12680 89 119 -

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109 138 103 103 103 103 103 103 158 103 103 103 103 103 103 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 138 138 138 168 168

1.4i 90 SRi £12720 89 121 1.4i 90 SRi VX-Line £13755 89 121 1.4i 90 SE £13365 89 121 1.4i 100 Turbo SRi £13375 99 119 10 1.4i 100 Turbo SRi VX-Line £14410 99 119 10 1.4i 100 Turbo SE £14020 99 119 10 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S Life £13930 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S Design £13930 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SRi £14625 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SRi VX-Line £15660 74 99 1.3 CDTi 75 S-S SE £15270 74 99 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SRi £15125 94 85 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SRi VX-Line £16160 94 85 1.3 CDTi 95 S-S SE £15770 94 85 ASTRA 5dr hatch Good handling, nice engines but over-geared. Focus is better AAAAC 1.3 CDTi 95 ecoFLEX Design £16835 94 104 9 1.4i VVT 100 Design £15445 99 129 9 1.4i VVT 100 Excite £17920 99 129 9 1.4i VVT 100 Tech Line £16770 99 129 9 1.6 CDTi 110 ecoFLEX Design S- £17735 108 97 9 1.6 CDTi 110 ecoFLEX Elite S-S £23175 108 97 9 1.6 CDTi 110 ecoFLEX SRi S-S £21740 108 97 9 1.6 CDTi 110 e’FLEX Tec Ln S-S £18910 108 97 9 1.6 CDTi 136 ecoFLEX Elite S-S £23770 134 104 9 1.6 CDTi 136 ecoFLEX SRi S-S £22335 134 104 9 1.6 CDTi 136 e’FLEX Design S-S £18330 134 104 9 1.6 CDTi 136 e’FLEX Tec Ln S-S £19505 134 104 9 1.6CDTi 110e’FLEX Tec LnGT S-S £19770 108 97 9 1.6CDTi 136e’FLEX Tec LnGT S-S £20365 134 104 9 1.6i VVT 115 Design £16160 114 147 12 1.6i VVT 115 Excite £18635 114 147 12 1.6i VVT 115 Tech Line GT £17610 114 147 12 1.6i VVT Tech Line £17485 114 147 12 2.0 CDTi 165 e’FLEX Tech L S-S £19995 158 119 20 2.0 CDTi 165 Tech Line GT S-S £20855 158 119 21 1.4i VVT 100 SRi £18865 99 129 9 1.4T SRi £20220 138 138 17 1.6i VVT Elite £21275 114 147 12 1.6i VVT SRi £19580 114 147 12 2.0 CDTi 165 ecoFLEX Elite S-S £24260 158 119 21 2.0 CDTi 165 ecoFLEX SRi S-S £22825 158 119 21 2.0 CDTi 195 Biturbo S-S £24205 192 134 21 ASTRA 5dr estate More composed than the hatch. A very decent small estate AAAAC 1.3 CDTi 95 ecoFLEX Design S-S £18200 94 109 9 1.4i VVT 100 Design £16480 99 137 9 1.4i VVT 100 Tech Line £17805 99 137 9 1.6 CDTi 110 ecoFLEX Elite S-S £24190 108 97 14 1.6 CDTi 110 e’FLEX Design S-S £18755 108 97 14 1.6 CDTi 110 eFLEX SRi S-S £22755 108 97 14 1.6 CDTi 110 eFLEX Tech Ln S-S £19930 108 97 14 1.6 CDTi 136 ecoFLEX Elite S-S £24785 134 104 14 1.6 CDTi 136 e’FLEX Design S-S £19350 134 104 14 1.6 CDTi 136 eFLEX SRi S-S £23350 134 104 14 1.6 CDTi 136 eFLEX Tech Ln S-S £20525 134 104 14 1.6i VVT 115 Design £17145 114 149 12 1.6i VVT 115 Elite £22295 114 149 12 1.6i VVT Tech Line £18505 114 149 12 2.0 CDTi 165 Elite S-S £25275 162 124 20 2.0 CDTi 165 Tech Line S-S £21015 162 124 20 1.6i VVT SRi £20600 114 149 12 2.0 CDTi 165 SRi S-S £23840 162 124 21 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo S-S £25220 192 134 21 ASTRA GTC 3dr coupé Good looking three-door hatch with the dynamics to match AAAAC 1.4T 16v 140 Sport auto £21570 118 159 16 1.4T 16v 140 SRi auto £22795 118 159 16 1.6T 200 Sport S-S £21595 202 168 25 1.6T 200 SRi S-S £22820 202 168 25 2.0 CDTi 165 Sport auto £23780 163 149 20 2.0 CDTi 165 SRi auto £25005 163 149 20 1.4T 16v 120 Sport S-S £19355 118 139 13 1.4T 16v 140 Sport S-S £20245 138 139 16 1.4T 16v 120 SRi S-S £21070 118 139 14 1.4T 16v 140 SRi S-S £21470 138 139 16 2.0T 280 VXR £27620 276 189 35 2.0 CDTi GTC Sp. 165 £22300 163 127 20 2.0 CDTi GTC SRi 165 £23525 163 127 20 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo S-S £24520 192 129 CASCADA 2dr open Comfortable and credible alternative to the usual ragtops AAAAC 1.6T 200 200 Elite £29510 202 168 24 1.6T 200 SE £26615 202 168 24 1.4T 140 SE S-S £24500 138 148 20 1.4T 140 Elite S-S £27875 138 148 21 1.6T SIDI 170 SE Au £27600 168 168 24 1.6T SIDI 170 Elite Au £30495 168 168 24 2.0 CDTi 165 SE S-S £26480 163 138 23 2.0 CDTi 165 Elite S-S £28580 163 138 23 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo Elite S-S £30065 192 138 27 INSIGNIA 5dr hatch Nearly as good as a Mondeo.

Inert steering AAAAC 1.4T 140 SRi Nav £20394 138 123 15 1.6T 170 Elite Nav £24229 168 139 20 1.8i VVT Design Nav £17679 138 164 14 1.8i VVT SRi Nav £19479 138 164 14 2.0 CDTi 120 Design Nav £19934 118 99 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Elite Nav £24114 118 99 16 2.0 CDTi 120 SRi Nav £21734 118 99 15 2.0 CDTi 120 SRi VX-Line Nav £22954 118 99 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Design £18244 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Design Nav £19094 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Energy £21614 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 SE £20044 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 SRi £20044 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 SRi Nav £20894 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 SRi VX-Line £21264 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 130 SRi VX-Line Nav £22114 128 112 16 2.0 CDTi 140 Design Nav £20184 138 99 18 2.0 CDTi 140 Elite Nav £24364 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi Nav £21984 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi VX-Line Nav £23204 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 170 SRi Nav £22134 168 114 20 2.0 CDTi 195 Biturbo SRi Nav £25804 192 125 24 2.0 CDTi 195BiTurbEliteNav aut £28359 192 149 24 2.0 CDTi 195BiTurbSRi VX-LnNav £27024 192 125 24 2.0T 250 Elite Nav £24814 247 169 26 2.0T 250 SRi VX-Line Nav £23654 247 169 26 2.8T VXR Supersport £30129 321 249 37 1.4T 140 Design £17744 138 123 15 1.4T 140 Design Nav £18594 138 123 15 1.4T 140 Energy £21199 138 123 15

WHAT’S COMING WHEN

Kia Sportage Spring 2016 The fourth-generation Sportage will make its global debut at next week’s Frankfurt motor show and receives significant styling upgrades both inside and out. It’s set to be offered with a new turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, while other engine options will be carried over from its sister car, the Hyundai Tucson. Price From £18,000 (est) SUMMER Aston Martin Vantage GT12, Audi A8 Sport, Q7, BMW 3 Series facelift, Cadillac CTS-V, Chevrolet Volt, Citroën Berlingo Multispace, Ferrari 488 GTB, Honda Civic Type R, HR-V, Jazz, Lamborghini Huracán Spider, Aventador SV, Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography, Lotus Evora 400, Mazda MX-5, McLaren 675 LT, P1 GTR, Mercedes-Benz GLE, GLE Coupé, MercedesMaybach S600, Mitsubishi L200, Peugeot 2008 facelift, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Boxster facelift, Boxster Spyder, Renault Kadjar, Toyota Mirai, Avensis facelift, Volkswagen Passat GTE, Passat Alltrack, Passat Bluemotion AUTUMN/WINTER Alpina D3 Biturbo, Audi A4, Alfa Romeo Giulia, Bentley Grand Convertible, BMW X1, DS 4 facelift, Ford Ka, EcoSport, Hyundai ix20 facelift, Santa Fe facelift, Tucson, Jaguar XF, F-Type SVR, Jeep Grand Cherokee facelift, Kahn Vengeance, Flying Huntsman Pick-Up, Kia Optima, Cee’d facelift, Koenigsegg Regera, Agera RS, Lexus GS F, RX, Mercedes-Benz A-Class facelift, C-Class Coupé, G500 4x4, GLC, Mini Clubman, Nissan Murano, Pulsar Nismo, Peugeot 308 GTi, Porsche 911 facelift, Renault Mégane RS 275, Seat Ibiza facelift, Skoda Superb, Smart Forfour Brabus, Subaru Levorg, Tesla Model X, Toyota Prius, Vauxhall Astra, Volkswagen Golf GTE, Transporter, Touran, Vuhl 05 2016 Alpina B7, Alpine sports car, Audi S8 Plus, R8 Spyder, Bentley Bentayga, BMW 1 Series saloon, M2, M4 GTS, Borgward SUV, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Camaro, Detroit Electric SP:01, Elemental RP1, Ferrari FF facelift, F12 Speciale, 488 Spyder, Fiat 124 Spider, Ford Focus RS, GT, Edge, Honda NSX, Hyundai i20 Active, i20 1.0, Infiniti Q30, QX30, Jaguar F-Pace, Kahn Speed 7, Kia Sportage, Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Cabriolet, Lexus RX, Lotus 3-Eleven, Maserati Alfieri, Levante, Mercedes-Benz S-Class Cabriolet, GLC Coupé, Mercedes-AMG GT3, S63 Cabriolet, C63 Coupé, SL63 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class Pullman, Mini Countryman, Morgan EV3, Nissan Juke, Porsche Panamera facelift, Boxster facelift Renault Mégane, Rolls-Royce Dawn, Seat Leon SUV, Ibiza Cupra facelift, Skoda Roomster, Toyota Prius, Crossover, Vauxhall Insignia, Volkswagen Tiguan Stay up to date with all the latest new car launches with Autocar’s new cars calendar. Head to autocar.co.uk

Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupé 2016 Already spotted testing alongside the larger GLC, the BMW X4-rivalling GLC Coupé will keep many of the styling traits of the concept revealed at the Shanghai show in April. It is expected to ride on a modified version of Mercedes’ MRA platform, as used by the latest C-Class. Engine options will include a 362bhp twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6. Price From £40,000 (est) Visit autocar.co.uk for all of our Top Fives

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ROAD TEST RESULTS

2.0 TDI 110 Outdoor SE 4WD 2.0 TDI 140 Outdoor SE Bness 4 1.2 TSI 105 S 1.2 TSI 105 Outdoor S 1.2 TSI 105 SE 1.2 TSI 105 Outdoor SE 1.2 TSI 105 Eleg.

1.2 TSI 105 Outdoor Eleg.

1.8 TSI 160 Outdoor L&K 4WD 1.6 TDI 105 S GreenLine II 1.6 TDI 105 Outdoor S GreenLin 1.6 TDI 105 SE GreenLine II 1.6 TDI 105 Outdoor SE GreenLi 1.6 TDI 105 Eleg. GreenLine 1.6 TDI 105 Outdoor Eleg.

2.0 TDI 110 S 2.0 TDI 110 Outdoor S 2.0 TDI 110 Outdoor S 4WD 2.0 TDI 110 SE 2.0 TDI 110 Outdoor SE 2.0 TDI 110 Eleg.

2.0 TDI 110 Outdoor Eleg.

2.0 TDI 140 Outdoor SE 4WD 2.0 TDI 140 Outdoor Eleg. 4WD 2.0 TDI 140 Outdoor L&K 4WD 2.0 TDI 170 Outdoor Eleg. 4WD 2.0 TDI 170 Outdoor L&K 4WD

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1.4T 140 SRi £19544 138 123 15 1.4T 140 SE £19544 138 123 15 1.4T 140 Tech Line £20394 138 123 15 1.6T 170 Elite £23379 168 139 20 1.8i VVT Design £16829 138 164 14 1.8 VVT Energy £20284 138 164 15 1.8 VVT SRi £18629 138 164 14 2.0T 250 SRi VX-Line £22804 247 169 26 2.0T 250 Elite £23964 247 169 26 2.0 CDTi 120 Design £19084 118 99 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Energy £22454 118 99 16 2.0 CDTi 120 SRi £20884 118 99 15 2.0 CDTi 120 SRi VX-Line £22104 118 99 16 2.0 CDTi 120 SE £20884 118 99 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Elite £23264 118 99 16 2.0 CDTi 140 Design £19334 138 99 18 2.0 CDTi 140 Energy £22704 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi £21134 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi VX-Line £22354 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SE £21134 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Tech Line £21984 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Elite £23514 138 99 19 2.0 CDTi 170 Design £20334 168 114 20 2.0 CDTi 170 Design Nav £21184 168 114 20 2.0 CDTi 170 Energy £23704 168 114 20 2.0 CDTi 170 SRi £22134 168 114 20 2.0 CDTi 170 SRi VX-Line £23354 168 114 2.0 CDTi 170 SRi VX-Line Nav £24204 168 114 2.0 CDTi 170 SE £22134 168 114 2.0 CDTi 170 Tech Line £22984 168 114 £24514 168 114 2.0 CDTi 170 Elite 2.0 CDTi 170 Elite Nav £25364 168 114 2.0 CDTi 195 Biturbo SRi £24954 192 125 24 2.0 CDTi 195 BiturbSRi VX-Line £26174 192 125 24 2.0 CDTi 195 BiturboElite auto £27519 192 149 24 INSIGNIA SPORTS TOURER 5dr estate Nearly as good as a Mondeo. Inert steering AAAAC 1.4T 140 Design Nav £20029 138 131 15 1.4T 140 Design S-S £19179 138 131 15 1.4T 140 Energy S-S £22634 138 131 15 1.6T 170 Elite Nav £25564 168 146 20 1.6T 170 Elite S-S £24714 168 146 20 2.0 CDTi 120 Design £20384 118 104 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Design Nav £21234 118 104 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Elite £24564 118 104 16 2.0 CDTi 120 Elite Nav £25414 118 104 16 2.0 CDTi 120 SRi Nav £23034 118 104 15 2.0 CDTi 120 Tech Line £23034 118 104 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Design £19544 129 104 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Design Nav £20394 129 104 16 2.0 CDTi 130 Energy £22914 129 104 16 2.0 CDTi 140 Design £20634 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Design Nav £21484 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Elite £24814 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Elite Nav £25664 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Energy £24004 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SE £22434 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi £22434 138 104 19 £23284 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi Nav 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi VX-Line £23654 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 SRi VX-Line Nav £24504 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 140 Tech Line £23284 138 104 19 2.0 CDTi 163 Country Nav 4x4 £28304 161 147 20 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo Elite aut £28819 192 159 24 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo SRi £26254 192 129 24

2.0 CDTi 195 BiTurbo SRi VX-L £27474 192 129 24 2.0 CDTi 195BiTboCo’tryNav4x4 £31009 192 174 24 2.0 CDTi 195BiTurbSRiVX-Ln Nav £28324 192 129 24 2.0 CDTi195BiTurbEliteNav auto £29669 192 159 24 2.0T 250 SRi VX-Line Nav £24954 247 174 26 2.0T 250 SRi VX-Line S-S £24104 247 174 26 2.8T VXR SuperSport £31429 321 249 37 2.0 CDTi 163 Country 4x4 £27154 161 147 20 2.0 CDTi 195 BiTbo Country 4x4 £29854 192 174 24 MERIVA 5dr mpv Clever flexdoors make sense for young families. Nice to drive AAAAC 1.6 CDTi 110 S-S Exclusiv £20715 108 99 7 1.6 CDTi 136 Exclusiv AC S-S £20875 134 116 7 1.6 CDTi 136 SE AC S-S £21730 134 116 7 1.6 CDTi 136 Tech Line £17175 134 116 7 1.7 CDTi 110 Excl. AC Au £21515 109 160 12 1.7 CDTi 110 S AC Au £20850 109 160 12 1.7 CDTi 110 S auto £20995 109 160 12 1.7 CDTi 110 SE AC Au £22505 109 160 12 1.4i VVT 100 Energy AC £17865 99 140 7 1.4i VVT 100 Tech Line AC £13999 99 140 7 1.4i VVT 100 SE £18710 99 140 8 1.4T 120 Exclusiv AC £18595 118 139 14 1.4T 120 SE £19440 118 139 14 1.4T 140 Exclusiv AC £19425 138 149 14 1.4T 140 SE £20270 138 149 14 1.3 CDTi 75 Energy AC £19225 74 124 5 1.3 CDTi 75 Tech Line AC £15740 74 124 5 1.6 CDTi 95 S-S Exclusiv £20405 94 105 7 1.6 CDTi 110 S-S SE £21570 108 99 ZAFIRA TOURER 5dr mpv Super-stylish, but lacks sliding rear doors AAABC 1.6 CDTi 136 Elite S-S £28780 134 109 16 1.6 CDTi 136 SRi S-S £27300 134 109 16 1.4T 140 Tech Line £20875 138 154 16 1.4T 140 Exclusiv £23100 138 154 16 1.4T 140 SRi £24450 138 154 15 1.4T 140 SE £24485 138 154 15 1.4T 140 Elite £25965 138 154 16 1.8i 140 ES £21760 138 169 14 1.8i 140 Tech Line £20575 138 169 14 1.8i 140 Exclusiv £22800 138 169 14 1.6 CDTi 136 Tech Line £23690 134 109 16 1.6 CDTi 136 Exclusiv £25915 134 109 16 1.6 CDTi 136 SE £27300 134 109 16 2.0 CDTi 130 ES £23460 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 130 Tech Line £22275 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 130 Exclusiv £24500 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 130 SRi £25850 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 130 SE £25885 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 130 Elite £27365 129 137 15 2.0 CDTi 170 Exclusiv £26115 168 129 19 2.0 CDTi 170 Tech Line £23890 168 129 19 2.0 CDTi 170 SRi £27530 168 129 19 2.0 CDTi 170 SE £27500 168 129 19 2.0 CDTi 170 Elite £29045 168 129 19 MOKKA 5dr hatch Compact and competent, but short on persuasive quality AAABC 1.6i 115 Tech Line S-S £16474 114 153 5 1.6i 115 Exclusiv S-S £18539 114 153 6 1.6i 115 SE S-S £21039 114 153 7 1.4T 140 Tech Line 2WD S-S £17214 138 139 11 1.4T 140 Tech Line 4x4 S-S £18774 138 149 11 1.4T 140 Exclusiv 2WD S-S £19214 138 139 12 1.4T 140 Exclusiv 4x4 S-S £20934 138 149 12

1.4T 140 SE 2WD S-S £21714 138 139 13 1.4T 140 SE 4x4 S-S £23434 138 149 13 1.7 CDTi 130 Tech Line S-S £18224 129 120 12 1.7 CDTi 130 Exclusiv S-S £20224 129 120 13 1.7 CDTi 130 SE S-S £22724 129 120 14 1.7 CDTi 130 Tech Line 4x4 S-S £19924 129 129 12 1.7 CDTi 130 Exclusiv 4x4 S-S £21924 129 129 13 1.7 CDTi 130 SE 4x4 S-S £24424 129 129 14 ANTARA 5dr 4x4 Stylish interior blunts usability. Poor residuals AAACC 2.4i 16v 167 Exclusiv £20170 161 206 20 2.2 CDTi 163 Exclusiv S-S £21400 161 167 25 2.2 CDTi 163 Exclusiv 4x4 S-S £23820 161 177 25 2.2 CDTi 163 SE Nav 4x4 S-S £26660 161 177 25 2.2 CDTi 163 Diamond S-S £22200 161 167 25 2.2 CDTi 163 Diamond 4x4 S-S £24620 161 177 25 2.2 CDTi 184 SE Nav 4x4 S-S £27720 184 177 28 VXR8 4dr saloon Still has old-school appeal. No longer cheap AAABC 6.2 GTS £54509 576 389 50 VOLKSWAGEN UP 3dr hatch Hardly revolutionary, just quantifiably better AAAAC 1.0 75 Groove Up £12125 74 108 4 1.0 75 Rock Up £13580 74 108 4 1.0 60 Take Up £8870 59 105 1 1.0 60 Move Up £9925 59 105 1 1.0 60 BMT Move Up £10285 59 95 1 1.0 75 High Up £11500 74 108 2 1.0 75 BMT High Up £11860 74 98 2 UP 5dr hatch Hardly revolutionary, just quantifiably better AAAAC 1.0 75 Groove Up £12500 74 108 4 e-up 82 BEV £24795 - 0 10 1.0 60 Take Up £9245 59 105 1 1.0 60 Move Up £10300 59 105 1 1.0 60 BMT Move Up £10660 59 95 1 1.0 75 High Up £11875 74 108 2 1.0 75 BMT High Up £12235 74 98 2 POLO 3dr hatch A mini Golf. Sweet handling, solid interior and good value AAAAC 1.4 TSI 150 ACT BlueGT £17910 148 110 24 1.0 60 S £11300 59 106 7 1.0 60 S AC £12020 59 106 7 1.0 60 SE £12635 59 106 8 1.0 60 SE Design £13735 59 106 8 1.0 75 SE £13160 74 108 10 1.0 75 SE Design £14260 74 108 11 1.2 TSI 90 SE £13780 89 107 15 1.2 TSI 90 SE Design £14880 89 107 15 1.2 TSI 110 SEL £16310 108 110 19 1.8 TSI 192 GTI £18900 189 139 24 1.4 TDI 75 SE £14845 74 93 13 1.4 TDI 75 SE Design £15945 74 93 14 1.4 TDI 90 SEL £16820 79 93 16 POLO 5dr hatch A mini Golf. Sweet handling, solid interior and good value AAAAC 1.0 60 S £11930 59 106 7 1.0 60 S AC £12650 59 106 7 1.0 60 SE £13265 59 106 8 1.0 60 SE Design £14365 59 106 8 1.0 75 SE £13790 74 108 10 1.0 75 SE Design £14890 74 108 11 1.2 TSI 90 SE £14410 89 107 15

1.2 TSI 90 SE Design £15510 89 107 15 1.2 TSI 110 SEL £16940 108 110 19 1.4 TSI 150 ACT BlueGT £18540 148 110 24 1.8 TSI 192 GTI £19530 189 139 24 1.4 TDI 75 SE £15475 74 93 13 1.4 TDI 75 SE Design £16575 74 93 14 1.4 TDI 90 SEL £17450 79 93 16 GOLF CABRIOLET 2dr open Composed but uninspiring four-seat soft-top AAABC 1.2 TSI 105 S £22070 103 139 15 1.4 TSI 122 S £22765 121 149 19 1.4 TSI 122 SE £23815 121 149 19 1.4 TSI 160 GT £26715 158 150 29 2.0 TSI 210 GTI £30505 208 177 35 2.0 TSI 265 R £33650 261 190 39 1.6 TDI 105 Bluemotion Tech S £23540 103 117 17 1.6 TDI 105 Bluemotion Tech SE £24590 103 117 17 2.0 TDI 140 Bluemotion Tech SE £25990 138 119 23 2.0 TDI 140 Bluemotion Tech GT £27180 138 119 23 GOLF 3dr hatch The complete package. Reassuringly expensive AAAAB 1.6 TDI 110 BlueMotion £21435 103 89 15 1.6 TDI 90 S £18995 89 98 10 2.0 TSI 300 R £30820 296 165 34 1.2 TSI 85 S £17595 84 113 7 1.2 TSI 105 S £18185 104 114 11 1.4 TSI 122 S £18945 121 120 14 1.4 TSI 122 Match £19880 121 120 15 1.4 TSI 150 GT ACT £23615 148 112 15 2.0 TSI 220 GTI £27500 217 139 29 1.6 TDI 105 S £19800 103 99 12 1.6 TDI 105 Match £20735 103 99 13 2.0 TDI 150 Match £22670 148 106 18 2.0 TDI 150 GT £24120 148 109 17 2.0 TDI 184 GTD £26935 181 112 26 GOLF 5dr hatch The complete package. Reassuringly expensive AAAAB 1.6 TDI 90 S £19650 89 98 10 2.0 TSI 300 R £31475 296 165 34 e-Golf 115 BEV £31325 114 0 15 1.2 TSI 85 S £18250 84 113 7 1.2 TSI 105 S £18840 104 114 11 1.4 TSI 122 S £19600 121 123 14 1.4 TSI 122 Match £20535 121 123 15 1.4 TSI 150 GT ACT £24270 148 112 15 1.4 TSI 150 GT ACT DSG £25685 148 113 15 1.4 TSI 204 PHEV GTE £33755 148 39 26 2.0 TSI 220 GTI £28155 217 139 29 1.6 TDI 105 S £20455 103 99 12 1.6 TDI 105 Match £21390 103 99 13 1.6 TDI 110 BlueMotion £22090 103 89 15 2.0 TDI 150 Match £23325 148 106 18 2.0 TDI 150 GT £24775 148 109 17 2.0 TDI 184 GTD £27590 181 112 26 GOLF 5dr estate The complete package. Reassuringly expensive AAAAB 1.2 TSI 105 S £19535 104 117 11 1.2 TSI 85 S £18945 84 115 7 1.4 TSI 122 S £20295 121 124 14 1.4 TSI 122 SE £21230 121 124 13 1.4 TSI 140 GT £24545 138 121 15 1.6 TDI 105 S £21150 103 102 12 1.6 TDI 105 SE £22085 103 102 11 1.6 TDI 110 BlueMotion £22785 110 92 15 £20765 89 102 10 1.6 TDI 90 S

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SCIROCCO 3dr coupé A complete coupe.

Entertaining, practical and stylish AAAAB 1.4 TSI 125 £20735 123 125 22 1.4 TSI 125 GT £22585 123 125 23 2.0 TSI 180 £22790 178 142 31 2.0 TSI 220 GT £26125 217 142 37 2.0 TSI 220 R-line £28195 217 139 37 2.0 TSI 280 R £32580 276 187 42 2.0 TDI 150 £23455 148 109 27 2.0 TDI 150 GT £25305 148 109 28 2.0 TDI 150 R-line £27375 148 109 28 2.0 TDI 184 GT £26305 181 115 31 2.0 TDI 184 R-line £28375 181 115 31 PASSAT 4dr saloon Supremely well-executed family-sized prospect AAAAC 1.6 TDI 120 S £22320 118 105 15 1.6 TDI 120 SE £23460 118 105 12 1.6 TDI 120 SE Business £24115 118 105 12 1.6 TDI 120 GT £25420 118 109 13 2.0 TDI 150 S £23445 148 106 21 2.0 TDI 150 SE £24585 148 106 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE Business £25240 148 106 19 2.0 TDI 150 GT £26545 148 109 19 2.0 TDI 150 R-line £27540 148 109 19 2.0 TDI SCR 190 GT £27895 187 107 22 2.0 TDI SCR 190 R-line £28890 187 107 23 2.0 TDI 240 BiTDI SCR GT £34625 237 139 28 2.0 TDI 240 BiTDI SCR R-line £35620 237 139 28 PASSAT 5dr estate Supremely well-executed family-sized prospect AAAAC 1.6 TDI 120 GT £26970 118 110 13 1.6 TDI 120 S £23870 118 107 15 1.6 TDI 120 SE £25010 118 107 12 1.6 TDI 120 SE Business £25665 118 107 12 2.0 TDI 150 GT £28095 148 110 19 2.0 TDI 150 R-line £29090 148 110 19 2.0 TDI 150 S £24995 148 107 21 2.0 TDI 150 SE £26135 148 107 19 2.0 TDI 150 SE Business £26790 148 107 19 2.0 TDI 190 SCR GT £29445 187 110 22 2.0 TDI 190 SCR R-line £30440 187 110 23 2.0 TDI 240 BiTDI SCR GT £36175 237 140 28 2.0 TDI 240 BiTDI SCR R-line £37170 237 140 28 PHAETON 4dr saloon Big VW feels old now, and struggles to justify its price AACCC 3.0 V6 TDI 240 SWB £55550 236 224 45 3.0 V6 TDI 240 LWB £58110 236 224 45 TOURAN 5dr mpv Good chassis but little inspiration.

Bland appearance AAAAC 2.0 TDI 177 Sport £28500 177 150 24 1.2 TSI 105 S £19940 104 149 12 1.4 TSI 140 SE £23750 138 159 18 1.6 TDI 105 Blue Tech S £21750 104 121 14 1.6 TDI 105 BlueTech SE £23855 104 121 14 2.0 TDI 140 Blue Tech SE £25620 138 127 19 2.0 TDI 140 BlueTech Sp. £27080 138 127 19 SHARAN 5dr mpv Refined, flexible big MPV. Seat version is cheaper AAABC 2.0 TDI 177 SE £30730 177 152 23 2.0 TDI 177 SEL £33630 177 152 23 1.4 TSI 150 S £25500 148 167 16 1.4 TSI 150 SE £27810 148 167 16 2.0 TSI 200 SEL DSG £33955 197 198 25 2.0 TDI 115 S £26065 113 146 14 2.0 TDI 140 S £26815 138 146 18

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2.0 TDI 150 GT £25470 148 110 17 2.0 TDI 150 SE £24020 148 108 17 GOLF SV 5dr mpv MQB platform gives the Golf proper MPV proportions. Still no C-Max though AAABC 1.2 TSI 85 S £19205 84 114 9 1.2 TSI 110 S £20215 108 117 14 1.4 TSI 125 S £20975 121 125 16 1.4 TSI 125 SE £21910 121 125 14 1.4 TSI 150 GT £25370 148 130 18 1.6 TDI 90 S £21025 89 101 11 1.6 TDI 110 S £21980 110 101 13 1.6 TDI 110 BlueMotion £23285 110 98 13 1.6 TDI 110 SE £22915 110 101 11 2.0 TDI 150 SE £24280 148 112 17 2.0 TDI 150 GT £25875 148 115 17 JETTA 4dr saloon Big boot, pleasant dynamics and good pricing. A bit dull AAABC 1.4 TSI 125 S £18895 123 125 18 1.4 TSI 125 SE £20225 123 125 18 1.4 TSI 150 SE £20930 148 123 21 1.4 TSI 150 GT £21795 148 123 21 2.0 TDI 110 S £20175 109 105 14 2.0 TDI 110 SE £21505 109 105 15 2.0 TDI 110 GT £22370 109 105 15 2.0 TDI 150 SE £22505 148 109 22 2.0 TDI 150 GT £23370 148 109 22 wBEETLE 3dr hatch Huge improvement, but the Golf underneath is superior AAACC 1.2 TSI 105 £16275 104 128 13 1.2 TSI 105 Design £18670 104 128 14 1.4 TSI 150 Design £20705 148 134 20 1.4 TSI 150 Sport £22525 148 134 20 2.0 TSI 220 Sport £23755 217 150 27 2.0 TDI 110 £18100 108 112 13 £20475 108 112 13 2.0 TDI 110 Design 2.0 TDI 150 Design £21175 148 119 20 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £22995 148 119 21 BEETLE 2dr open Huge improvement, but Golf underneath is superior AAACC 1.2 TSI 105 £19230 104 129 15 1.2 TSI 105 Design £21625 104 129 16 1.4 TSI 150 Design £23515 148 138 22 1.4 TSI 150 Sport £25115 148 138 22 2.0 TDI 110 £21040 108 115 15 2.0 TDI 110 Design £23415 108 115 16 2.0 TDI 150 Design £24245 148 120 23 2.0 TDI 150 Sport £25845 148 120 23 2.0 TSI 220 Sport £26345 217 154 29 CC 4dr saloon Loses a name and adds some flair, but never compels AAAAC 1.4 TSI 160 BMT £25050 158 144 27 2.0 TDI 177 BMT GT £29820 177 120 27 2.0 TSI 210 GT £29285 208 169 29 2.0 TSI 210 R-Line £29935 208 169 32 2.0 TDI 140 BMT £26115 138 119 23 2.0 TDI 140 BMT GT £27695 138 119 24 2.0 TDI 177 BMT R-Line £30470 177 120 28 EOS 2dr cc Pleasant and predictable drive. Feeling old now AAABC 1.4 TSI 160 Sport £27610 158 157 24 2.0 TSI 210 Sport £29610 208 165 30 2.0 TDI Blue Tech Sp. £28185 138 125 23 2.0 TDI Blue Tech Exec. £31325 138 125 23

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VOLVO V40 5dr hatch New hatchback adds Swedish flavour to stock Ford platform AAAAC 1.6 T2 120 ES £19195 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 ES Nav £19995 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 SE £20720 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 SE Nav £21520 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 SE Lux Nav £23520 118 124 20 1.6 T2 120 R-Design £21495 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 R-Design Nav £22295 118 124 19 1.6 T2 120 R-Design Lux Nav £23970 118 124 21 1.6 T3 150 ES £20945 148 124 20 1.6 T3 150 ES Nav £21945 148 124 21 1.6 T3 150 SE £22670 148 124 21 1.6 T3 150 SE Nav £23470 148 124 21 £25470 148 124 22 1.6 T3 150 SE Lux Nav 1.6 T3 150 R-Design £23445 148 124 20 1.6 T3 150 R-Design Nav £24245 148 124 21 1.6 T3 150 R-Design Lux Nav £25920 148 124 22 1.6 T4 180 SE Lux Nav £26970 177 129 26 1.6 T4 180 R-Design Lux Nav £27420 177 129 26 1.6 T4 180 C-Country Lux Nav £27970 177 129 24

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1.6 D2 Business Edition S-S £21745 113 103 17 2.0 D3 Business Edition S-S £22395 134 114 22 2.0 D3 SE S-S £27795 134 114 23 2.0 D3 SE Lux S-S £30095 134 114 24 2.0 D3 R-Design S-S £29295 134 114 23 2.0 D4 Business Edition S-S £24045 178 99 26 V60 5dr estate Appealing cabin, nice looks and smooth drive. Too small AAABC 1.6 D2 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £33045 113 108 20 1.6 D2 R-Design Lux S-S £32045 113 108 19 1.6 D2 R-Design Nav S-S £30445 113 108 18 1.6 D2 R-Design S-S £29445 113 108 18 1.6 D2 SE Lux Nav S-S £31345 113 108 19 1.6 D2 SE Lux S-S £30345 113 108 19 1.6 D2 SE Nav S-S £28945 113 108 18 1.6 D2 SE S-S £27945 113 108 17 1.6 T3 R-Design Nav S-S £29505 148 139 23 1.6 T3 SE Nav S-S £28005 148 139 22 2.0 D3 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £33895 134 119 25 2.0 D3 R-Design Lux S-S £33095 134 119 25 2.0 D3 R-Design Nav S-S £31295 134 119 24 2.0 D3 SE Lux Nav S-S £32195 134 119 25 2.0 D3 SE Nav S-S £29795 134 119 23 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £35145 178 103 29 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux S-S £33945 178 103 29 2.0 D4 R-Design Nav S-S £32545 178 103 28 2.0 D4 R-Design S-S £31345 178 103 28 2.0 D4 SE Lux Nav S-S £33445 178 99 29 2.0 D4 SE Lux S-S £32245 178 99 29 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £31045 178 99 28 £29845 178 99 27 2.0 D4 SE S-S 2.4 D5 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £36695 212 120 31 2.4 D5 R-Design Nav S-S £34095 212 120 29 2.4 D5 SE Lux Nav S-S £34995 212 120 30 1.6 T3 Business Edition S-S £22205 148 139 21 1.6 T3 SE S-S £27205 148 139 22 1.6 T3 R-Design S-S £28705 148 139 23 3.0 T6 Polestar £49785 346 237 38 1.6 D2 Business Edition S-S £22945 113 108 17 2.0 D3 Business Edition S-S £23995 134 119 22 2.0 D3 SE S-S £28995 134 119 23 2.0 D3 R-Design S-S £30495 134 119 24 2.0 D4 Business Edition S-S £25245 178 99 26 2.4 D6 AWD Plug-in Hybrid £50175 275 48 2.4 D6 AWD Plug-in H R-Dsgn LN £51875 275 48 V70 5dr estate Spacious, but suffers from vague steering and old engines AAABC 1.6 D2 SE Lux S-S auto £33220 113 111 21 1.6 D2 SE Nav S-S auto £31620 113 111 19 2.0 D3 SE Nav S-S £31620 161 119 25 2.0 D4 SE Lux S-S £34720 178 113 30 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £33120 178 113 29 2.4 D5 SE Nav S-S £34570 212 126 30 1.6 D2 Business Editn S-S auto £25695 113 111 18 2.0 D3 Business Edition S-S £25695 161 119 24 2.0 D3 SE Lux S-S £33220 161 119 26 2.0 D4 Business Edition S-S £27195 178 113 28 2.0 D5 Business Edition S-S £28645 161 126 29 2.4 D5 SE Lux S-S £36170 212 126 32 S80 4dr saloon Refined, high-quality exec saloon.

Poor ride and residuals AAACC 1.6 D2 SE Lux S-S auto £32220 113 109 21 1.6 D2 SE Nav S-S auto £30720 113 109 20 2.0 D4 SE Lux S-S £33720 178 104 29 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £32220 178 104 28

2.4 D5 SE Lux S-S £36835 212 120 31 XC60 5dr 4x4 Lovely, usable and attractive interior. A worthy Freelander rival AAAAC 3.0 T6 R-Design Lux Nav AWD £43720 300 249 37 2.0 D4 SE S-S £31660 178 117 28 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £32460 178 117 28 2.0 D4 SE Lux S-S £34360 178 117 29 2.0 D4 SE Lux Nav S-S £35160 178 117 29 2.0 D4 R-Design S-S £32935 178 117 28 2.0 D4 R-Design Nav S-S £33735 178 117 28 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux S-S £35560 178 117 29 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £36360 178 117 30 2.4 D4 SE AWD S-S £33190 178 139 28 2.4 D4 SE Nav AWD S-S £33990 178 139 29 2.4 D4 SE Lux AWD S-S £35890 178 139 30 2.4 D4 SE Lux Nav AWD S-S £36690 178 139 30 2.4 D4 R-Design AWD S-S £34465 178 139 29 2.4 D4 R-Design Nav AWD S-S £35265 178 139 29 2.4 D4 R-Design Lux AWD S-S £37090 178 139 30 2.4 D4 R-Design Lux Nav AWD S- £37890 178 139 30 2.4 D5 SE Nav AWD S-S £35990 178 139 30 2.4 D5 SE Lux Nav AWD S-S £38690 178 139 31 2.4 D5 R-Design Nav AWD S-S £37265 178 139 30 2.4 D5 R-Design Lux Nav AWD S- £39890 178 139 31 XC70 5dr estate Dull and unexceptional, but built to last AAACC 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £34470 178 117 28 2.4 D4 SE Lux 4WD S-S £38350 161 139 30 2.4 D5 SE Nav 4WD S-S £39285 212 139 30 3.0 T6 SE Lux 4WD £43180 300 248 37 2.4 D4 SE Nav £36400 161 139 30 2.4 D5 SE Lux 4WD S-S £41235 212 139 31 XC90 5dr 4x4 Volvo takes the fight to Land Rover - with seriously impressive results AAAAB 2.0 T6 320 Momentum £49205 316 179 2.0 T6 320 R-Design £52845 316 179 2.0 T6 320 Inscription £53745 316 179 2.0 T8 Hybrid Momentum £59955 395 59 2.0 T8 Hybrid R-Design £62855 395 59 2.0 T8 Hybrid Inscription £63705 395 59 2.0 D5 225 Momentum £45750 222 149 2.0 D5 225 R-Design £49285 222 152 2.0 D5 225 Inscription £50185 222 152 WESTFIELD SPORT 2dr open Entry-level Westfield. Sport Turbo very quick and fun AAABC 1.6 135 Sigma £18999 135 171 1.6 155 Sigma £19999 155 - 1600 Sport Turbo £24999 192 171 2.0 200 Duratec £23499 200 - Turbo UK225 £25649 225 185 1.6 Sport Turbo 3 UK200 £26500 201 178 XTR2 2dr open Mad bike-engined mini Le Mans racer.

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From £950,000 No UK drive means its amazing numbers can’t be verified — but our first look suggests its reputation is deserved. AAAAB

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Bugatti Veyron From £1.15 million A waning obsession with petrol power taken to its extreme limit. There are better cars — but none quicker. AAAAB

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Pagani Huayra From £1.4 million Last century’s idea of a hypercar. Staggering in almost every way — not least its looks. As exclusive as it gets. AAAAB

From £674,000 Only in this category do five stars not guarantee the class lead.

The 918 feels built to rule, too. A mind-boggler. AAAAA

ZENOS E10 2dr open A Lotus and Caterham love child. Fun and affordable in near perfect measure AAAAB 2.0 £24995 200 - 2.0 S £29995 250 - -

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£31700 251 189 35 £34100 251 194 30 £21195 113 88 17 £21995 113 88 17 £22720 113 88 17 £23520 113 88 17 £24520 113 88 18 £25520 113 88 18 £23295 113 88 17 £24295 113 88 17 £24970 113 88 18 £25970 113 88 18 1.6 D2 115 C-Country SE £23520 113 99 16 1.6 D2 115 C-Country SE Nav £24520 113 99 16 1.6 D2 115 C-Country Lux £25520 113 99 17 1.6 D2 115 C-Country Lux Nav £26520 113 99 17 2.0 D3 150 SE £23770 148 114 22 2.0 D3 150 SE Nav £24570 148 114 22 2.0 D3 150 SE Lux Nav £26570 148 114 23 2.0 D3 150 R-Design £24545 148 114 21 2.0 D3 150 R-Design Nav £25345 148 114 22 2.0 D3 150 R-Design Lux Nav £27020 148 114 23 2.0 D3 150 C-Country SE £24870 148 117 21 2.0 D3 150 C-Country SE Nav £25670 148 117 21 2.0 D3 150 C-Country Lux Nav £27670 148 117 22 2.0 D4 190 SE £24970 187 99 26 2.0 D4 190 SE Nav £25770 187 99 26 2.0 D4 190 SE Lux Nav £27770 187 99 27 2.0 D4 190 R-Design £25745 187 99 25 2.0 D4 190 R-Design Nav £26545 187 99 25 2.0 D4 190 R-Design Lux Nav £28220 187 99 26 2.0 D4 190 C-Country SE Nav £26870 187 112 24 2.0 D4 190 C-Country Lux Nav £28770 187 112 24 S60 4dr saloon T6 is rapid, all-weather sports car, if a niche choice AAABC 1.6 D2 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £31745 113 103 20 1.6 D2 R-Design Lux S-S £30745 113 103 20 1.6 D2 R-Design Nav S-S £29245 113 103 19 1.6 D2 R-Design S-S £28245 113 103 18 1.6 D2 SE Lux Nav S-S £30045 113 103 19 1.6 D2 SE Lux S-S £29045 113 103 19 1.6 D2 SE Nav S-S £27745 113 103 18 1.6 D2 SE S-S £26745 113 103 18 1.6 T3 R-Design Nav S-S £28305 148 135 23 1.6 T3 SE Nav S-S £26805 148 135 23 2.0 D3 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £32595 134 114 25 2.0 D3 R-Design Lux S-S £31795 134 114 25 2.0 D3 R-Design Nav S-S £30095 134 114 24 2.0 D3 SE Lux Nav S-S £30895 134 114 24 2.0 D3 SE Nav S-S £28595 134 114 23 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £33845 178 99 29 2.0 D4 R-Design Lux S-S £32645 178 99 29 2.0 D4 R-Design Nav S-S £31345 178 99 28 2.0 D4 R-Design S-S £30145 178 99 28 2.0 D4 SE Lux Nav S-S £32145 178 99 29 2.0 D4 SE Lux S-S £30945 178 99 29 2.0 D4 SE Nav S-S £29845 178 99 28 £28645 178 99 27 2.0 D4 SE S-S 2.4 D5 R-Design Lux Nav S-S £35395 212 119 31 2.4 D5 R-Design Nav S-S £32895 212 119 30 2.4 D5 SE Lux Nav S-S £33695 212 119 30 1.6 T3 Business Edition S-S £21005 148 135 21 1.6 T3 SE S-S £26005 148 135 22 1.6 T3 R-Design S-S £27505 148 135 23

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2.0 TDI 140 SE £29125 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 140 SEL £32025 138 146 18 2.0 TDI 140 Exec £32275 138 146 18 TIGUAN 5dr 4x4 Dull but capable soft roader. Pricey, but good ride and handling AAABC 1.4 TSI 160 BMT Match 2WD £23955 158 156 21 1.4 TSI 160 Match 4WD £25645 158 178 21 2.0 TDI 140 BMT Match 2WD £25150 138 138 18 2.0 TDI 140 BMT Match 4WD £26920 138 150 19 2.0 TDI 177 BMT Match 4WD £27925 175 151 23 2.0 TSI 180 Match 4WD £26485 178 198 24 1.4 TSI 160 Blue Tech S £21960 158 156 18 1.4 TSI 160 S 4WD £23650 158 178 18 2.0 TSI 210 R-line 4WD £29180 208 199 22 2.0 TDI 110 BMT S 2WD £22605 109 138 14 2.0 TDI 140 BMT S 2WD £23155 138 138 17 2.0 TDI 140 BMT S 4WD £24925 138 150 17 2.0 TDI 140 BMT Escape 4WD £27610 138 150 18 2.0 TDI 140 BMT R-line 4WD £28750 138 150 18 2.0 TDI 177 BMT R-line 4WD £29755 175 151 23 TOUAREG 5dr 4x4 Good value, and a great blend of comfort and deftness AAAAC 3.0 V6 TDI 204 SE £43605 204 173 39 3.0 V6 TDI 204 R-line £46605 204 173 40 3.0 V6 TDI 262 SE £45405 258 174 42 3.0 V6 TDI 262 R-line £48405 258 174 42 3.0 V6 TDI 262 Escape £45605 258 180 42 CARAVELLE 5dr mpv Rugged workhorse to carry people AAACC 2.0 TDI 140 SE SWB £36006 138 189 25 2.0 TDI 140 SE 4Mot. SWB £38484 138 206 26 2.0 TDI 140 SE LWB £38190 138 189 23 2.0 TDI 140 Exec SWB £38856 138 189 25 2.0 TDI 140 Exec. 4Mot. SWB £41304 138 206 26 2.0 BiTDI 180 SE SWB £38070 177 192 29 2.0 BiTDi 180 SE 4M SWB £40926 177 208 31 2.0 BiTDI 180 SE LWB £40254 177 192 30 2.0 BiTDI 180 Exec SWB £40920 177 192 30 2.0 BiTDI 180 Exec DSG £42840 177 199 30 2.0 BiTDI 180 Business SWB DSG £68622 177 214 38 2.0BiTDI180 Bus. 4Mot.SWBDSG £71553 177 232 39 2.0 BiTDi 180 Ex. 4M SWB £43776 177 208 31

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ATOM 0dr open AAAAB V8 170 3.0 5.7 1.9 3.7 2.55 475 268 16.4 21/37 650 NOMAD 0dr open AAAAA Nomad 125 4.5 12.7 3.9 7.7 3.10 235 221 26.7 na/na 735

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V8 Vantage 2dr coupé AAAAC V8 Roadster 175 5.2 12.0 3.6 7.9 2.7 380 302 26.0 17/22 1713 25.4.07 RAPIDE 4dr coupé AAAAC Rapide S 190 5.3 11.3 4.3 8.3 3.03 550 457 33.6 19/23 1990 20.3.13

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A1 3dr hatch AAAAC 1.4 TFSI Sport 126 8.4 22.4 8.9 12.8 S1 155 5.9 14.4 5.2 5.4 A3 3dr/5dr hatch AAAAC 2.0 TDI Sport 134 8.9 25.9 11.4 10.8 S’back e-tron 138 7.9 20.9 6.6 8.5 RS3 S’Back 155 4.1 10.3 3.7 7.7 A4 4dr saloon/5dr estate AAABC 2.0 TDI SE 134 9.7 29.4 11.3 9.7 RS4 174 4.4 10.3 3.9 7.7 A5 2dr coupé/cabriolet AAAAC 3.0 TDI quattro 155 6.4 16.6 5.9 8.0 3.0 TDI cabrio 153 7.1 20.2 6.6 *4.0 RS5 4.2 V8 155 4.6 10.7 4.0 8.9 A6 4dr saloon/5dr estate AAAAC 2.0 TDI SE 141 8.9 24.1 7.7 9.3 3.0 TDI SE 155 7.2 20.3 6.4 3.9 RS6 Avant 155 3.7 8.7 3.1 12.8 A7 Sportback 4dr saloon AAAAC 3.0 V6 TDI 155 6.7 18.7 6.5 *4.0 A8 4dr saloon AAAAC 4.2 V8 TDI 155 5.0 13.0 5.4 *3.4 TT 2dr AAAAC 2.5 RS 155 4.7 11.4 4.4 4.8 NEW TT 2dr AAAAC 2.0 TFSI S-line 155 6.6 14.5 5.0 6.5 Q3 5dr 4x4 AAABC 2.0 TDI SE 132 8.3 25.5 8.1 *11.5 RS 155 5.0 12.6 4.5 8.3 Q5 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 2.0 TDI SE 125 9.9 34.2 10.2 9.9 NEW Q7 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 3.0 TDI S line 145 6.2 17.6 6.2 *3.8 R8 2dr coupé AAAAB 4.2 V8 187 4.4 10.5 4.2 6.7 5.2 V10 Spyder 195 4.1 8.9 3.2 5.5

2.2 120 148 30.2 34/43 1165 10.11.10 2.6 228 273 25.6 30/39 1390 28.5.14 2.7 148 236 30 48/59 1355 26.9.12 3.0 201 258 30.7 45/49 1540 31.12.14 2.8 362 343 34.2 26/37 1595 10.6.15 2.6 141 236 32.7 38/48 1605 20.2.08 2.9 444 317 28.9 20/32 1795 17.10.12 2.7 237 368 35.7 32/43 1755 25.7.07 2.9 237 368 32.4 34/38 2035 12.9.09 2.7 444 317 29.0 22/30 1855 27.10.10 2.8 175 280 34.4 44/55 1675 4.5.11 2.9 201 295 39.9 34/46 1805 19.10.11 2.4 552 516 40.0 20/28 2010 3.7.13 2.8 241 369 42.9 31/40 1940

2.6 335 332 27.4 24/33 1450 19.8.09 2.5 227 273 30.1 29/35 1305 26.11.14 2.7 175 280 35.8 33/46 1710 16.11.11 2.8 306 310 32.4 32.4 1655 1.1.14 2.8 168 258 29.8 29/37 1880 14.1.09 -

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2.7 414 317 24.0 16/22 1560 2.4 518 391 24.3 17/25 1720

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199 37.7 54/60 1395 27.5.15 322 35.9 30/41 1545 14.11.12 280 39.6 46/62 1450 295 34.5 50/53 1610 332 28.1 26/35 1530

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3.9.14

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251 31.6 34/39 1707

13.3.13

3.2 197 347 32.4 28/35 2265 10.10.12

GINETTA

464 42.1 33/45 1840 2.11.11 G40R 2dr coupé AAAAC 442 38.5 22/29 2085 6.4.11 2.0 140 6.3 17.2 6.1 8.3 3.6 175 140 22.6 28/- 880 398 42.4 29/35 1915

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99

94 20.5 35/43 1075 29.10.08

87+14 89+58 32.1 40/43 1240

18.3.09

113+15 107+58 25.743/52 1198 14.4.10 148 258 38.7 38/55 1480 306 295 27 32/37 1378

11.1.12 5.8.15

148 258 34.2 39/47 1630 14.5.08 148 258 32.4 36/45 1806 24.10.12

65

70 20.0 44/51 925

29.1.14

99

99 21.8 43/54 1060

7.1.14

109 192 22.5 49/60 1360 14.3.12 192 29.4 44/51 1555

7.9.11

134 236 29.1 36/44 1695

114

17.3.10

311 37.5 36/43 1940

19.9.12

138 123 24.9 35/42 1230

194

18.1.12

168 295 42.5 49/59 1750

5.2.14

168 295 40.8 39/45 1896

25.2.15

488 460 46.8 19/29 1655 12.6.13 375 339 36.2 24/33 1594 11.6.14 197 332 46.3 39/46 1840 21.7.11 271 442 49.7 32/46 1875 31.10.12 503 461 36.3 20/25 1990 27.5.09 197 206 33.8 30/49 1530

1.7.15

271 443 43.5 28/36 1960

9.6.10

138 258 34.7 39/43 1846

24.6.14

68

70 21.3 33/54 950

3.8.11

114

192 31.7 47/56 1581

29.5.13

113

188 28.6 39/49 1370

20.2.08

107

101 23.3 40/50 1155

14.9.11

134 239 31.9 41/46 1535

8.2.12

134 236 33.6 35/39 1635 11.8.10 197 325 35.2 35/39 1953

8.4.15

121 265 26.2 19/28 1889

11.4.07

LAND ROVER

FIAT

*2.7 2.8 500 487 27.4 18/27 2470 *2.4 2.5 567 516 34.9 7/15 2375 8.7 3.0 572 518 37.6 —/18 2195

1-SERIES 3dr/5dr hatch AAABC 116d ED Plus 124 10.2 30.0 10.0 17.3 — 114 M135i 155 4.6 11.4 4.0 6.8 2.6 315 2-SERIES 3dr coupé/convertible AAAAB 220d SE 143 7.8 20.9 7.3 8.8 2.9 181 220d C’vble 140 8.5 24.7 8.4 9.0 2.1 187 M235i 155 6.3 14.7 5.7 5.4 2.7 322 2-SERIES ACTIVE TOURER 5dr MPV AAAAC 218d Luxury 129 8.9 26.5 8.7 12.1 3.0 148 3-SERIES 4dr saloon/5dr estate/5dr hatchAAAAB 320d Sport 146 7.7 20.9 7.6 9.7 2.6 181 330d Touring 155 5.5 14.2 5.1 8.8 2.6 255

398 280 332 502

17.7.13 MONDEO 4dr saloon/5dr/estate AAAAC 2.0 TDCi 130 10.0 28.8 9.4 12.7 18.9.13 ECOSPORT 5dr off-roader AABCC 9.7.14 1.5 TDCi 99 14.3 — 15.2 14.4 KUGA 5dr off-roader AAAAC 31.3.10 2.0 TDCi 122 10.9 44.2 11.8 7.4 6.10.10 RANGER 5dr pick-up AAABC 23.5.12 3.2 TDCi 109 10.8 35.7 10.7 9.8 29.12.11

JAZZ 5dr hatch AAAAC 184 — 294wh/m 1390 22.1.14 1.4 ES 113 10.7 35.2 10.7 14.3 3.2 INSIGHT 5dr hatch AAACC 420 33.3 50/40 1560 17.9.14 1.3 IMA SE 113 11.7 — 11.8 *7.4 3.1 CR-Z 3dr hatch AAABC 295 29.0 26/34 1615 10.6.09 CR-Z GT 124 9.1 26.8 9 17.1 2.9 CIVIC 5dr hatch AAABC 258 35.1 40/52 1572 2.12.09 2.2 i-DTEC EX 135 8.3 24 7.9 12.2 — Type R GT 167 5.5 13.4 5.0 6.7 2.7 280 33.5 37/43 1825 12.1.11 ACCORD 4dr saloon AAABC 2.2 i-DTEC EX 131 9.5 27.1 9.1 9.8 2.9 416 43.7 34/45 1895 27.8.14 CR-V 5dr off-roader AAABC 2.2 i-DTEC EX 118 9.7 31.3 9.9 5.9 2.5 546 40.5 28/34 2265 13.11.13 553 42.3 21/26 2350 13.5.15 HYUNDAI i10 5dr hatch AAABC 428 34.0 26/31 2275 11.6.08 1.0 SE 96 14.7 — 16.2 19.9 2.9 i20 5dr hatch AAAAC BUGATTI 1.4 SE 114 12.2 42.4 12.1 17.3 3.0 VEYRON 2dr coupé AAAAB i30 5dr hatch AAABC Super Sport 268 2.6 5.0 1.7 5.9 2.6 1183 1106 40.6 12/18 1995 2.3.11 1.6 CRDi Active 115 11.7 38.3 11.5 14.8 2.8 i40 5dr estate AAABC CATERHAM 1.7 CRDi 118 12.2 41.4 12.5 12.3 2.9 CSR 2dr roadster AAAAC iX35 5dr SUV AAABC CSR 260 143 4.1 9.8 3.1 4.4 3.3 260 200 22.8 24/26 570 11.10.05 2.0 Premium 112 10.9 40.9 11.1 9.2 2.9 SEVEN 2dr roadster AAAAC SANTA FE 5dr SUV AAAAC Seven 160 100 8.4 — 8.7 7.6 4.8 80 79 16.7 39/45 490 20.11.13 2.2 CRDi 118 9.0 27.6 9.2 *5.5 2.7 VELOSTER 4dr coupé AAABC CHEVROLET 1.6 GDI 125 9.6 28.4 9.6 16.9 2.6 CAMARO 2dr coupé AAAAC 6.2 V8 155 5.6 12.4 4.5 12.2 2.7 426 419 43.3 23/29 1175 20.6.12 INFINITI CORVETTE 2dr coupé AAAAC Q50 5dr saloon AABCC Stingray 181 4.4 9.4 3.3 11.7 2.3 460 465 48.4 22/33 1539 8.10.14 2.2 Premium 143 8.7 25.0 8.7 5.1* 3.0 Q70 4dr saloon AABCC CHRYSLER 2.2 Prm’m Tech137 9.6 28.6 9.6 15.8 3.2 300C 4dr saloon AAACC 3.0 Executive 144 7.3 21.1 7.5 *4.5 2.6 236 399 38.8 30/34 2040 29.8.12 JAGUAR F-TYPE 2dr convertible/3 dr coupé AAAAB CITROEN V8 S cabrio 186 4.0 9.4 3.4 8.0 2.8 C3 5dr hatch AAABC V6 S coupé 171 4.9 12.1 4.2 12.7 2.7 1.4 VTR+ 114 10.8 41.9 11.0 14.4 2.9 94 100 20.9 39/48 — 9.12.09 XF 4dr saloon/estate AAAAB DS3 5dr hatch AAABC 2.2 D 140 7.6 22.9 8.0 *4.8 2.9 1.6 THP 150 133 7.6 41.9 7.1 10.0 2.7 154 177 29.8 36/45 1200 3.3.10 3.0 Sportbrake 155 7.1 18.4 6.6 8.5 2.9 Racing 146 7.2 18.1 6.5 8.9 3.1 204 203 30.4 33/40 1215 16.3.11 XFR 5.0 V8 155 4.7 10.2 3.8 *2.1 2.6 C4 5dr hatch AAACC XE 4dr saloon AAAAB 2.0 HDi Excl. 129 8.5 25.2 7.9 9.2 3.15 148 251 34.2 43/49 1470 5.1.11 R-Sport 2.0 147 7.6 19.0 6.9 13.3 2.7 C4 CACTUS 5dr hatch AAACC XJ 4dr saloon AAAAC 1.6 BlueHDi 100 114 11.8 41.2 11.7 7.2 2.9 99 187 36.1 47/62 1225 16.7.14 3.0D LWB 155 6.3 16.5 6.6 *3.6 2.7 C4 GRAND PICASSO 5dr MPV AAAAC 2.0 BlueHDi 130 10.1 30.1 9.6 12.5 2.9 148 273 34.7 44/52 1430 27.11.13 JEEP C5 4dr saloon AAABC CHEROKEE 5dr 4x4 AABCC 2.2 HDi 136 8.7 25.3 8.8 9.1 2.9 171 273 34.5 38/44 1951 9.4.08 2.0 140 4x4 Ltd 117 12.3 43.4 13.0 13.8 2.7 DS5 5dr hatch AAABC 2.0 HDi 160 134 9.1 26.5 8.7 11.0 2.9 161 251 40.1 42/55 1660 18.4.12 KIA BERLINGO 5dr MPV AAABC PICANT0 5dr hatch AAAAC 1.6 HDi 90 99 14.7 - 16.7 14.0 2.9 90 159 26.6 38/47 1580 8.10.08 1.0 ‘1’ 95 13.8 — 14.9 24.4 3.2 CARENS 5dr MPV AAABC DACIA 1.7 CRDi ‘2’ 112 12.9 51.2 13.9 15.2 2.8 SANDERO 5dr hatchback AAACC CEE’D 3/5dr hatch AAAAC 1.2 75 Access 97 15.3 — 17.6 23.0 3.0 74 79 20.3 32/38 941 27.2.13 1.6 CRDi LS 117 10.6 34.1 10.3 9.6 2.5 RIO 5dr hatch AAABC FERRARI 1.4i ‘2’ 114 11.4 39.1 11.5 19.1 3.0 458 2dr coupé AAAAA OPTIMA 4dr saloon AAACC 458 Italia 202 3.3 7.0 2.4 5.7 2.3 562 398 - 17/20 1535 18.8.10 2 1.7 CRDi 125 10.5 35.4 10.4 10.6 3.2 458 Speciale 202 3.2 6.8 2.3 5.4 2.5 597 398 - 17/na 1395 20.8.14 SPORTAGE 5dr 4x4 AAABC F12 2dr coupé AAAAB 2.0 CRDi F.E. 112 10.5 41.8 11.3 12.2 3.0 F12 Berlinetta 211 3.0 6.5 2.3 5.4 2.2 731 509 29.7 13/18 1630 6.11.13 SORENTO 5dr 4x4 AAABC CALIFORNIA 2dr convertible AAAAC 2.2 CRDi KX-4 128 9.3 28.6 9.4 *5.7 — California 193 3.9 9.2 3.2 6.6 2.5 453 357 25.9 15/24 1785 22.7.09

PANDA 5dr hatch AAAAB 1.2 Easy 102 14.6 — 4x4 TwinAir 103 14.6 — 4.4.12 500 3dr hatch AAAAC 1.6.11 Abarth 595 130 7.5 20.1 8.7.15 500 TwinAir 108 11.7 —

BENTLEY

CONTINENTAL 2dr coupé AAAAC GTC V8 187 4.5 10.8 3.9 GT 198 4.6 10.9 4.2 GT3-R 170 3.7 8.2 3.1 FLYING SPUR 4dr saloon AAABC W12 200 4.5 10.4 3.6 MULSANNE 4dr saloon AAAAC 6.75 V8 184 5.7 13.7 4.8

9.2.11

2.5 346 590 53.1 28/35 2130 16.6.10

236 36.5 50/57 1615 295 28.2 28/37 1585 406 34.0 29/36 1585

15.3 19.9 3.0 68 15.8 16.0 3.0 84

75 22.2 39/49 1020 107 20.8 37/44 1050

25.4.12 17.4.13

6.4 7.0 2.8 158 170 23.9 34/39 1035 26.2.14 13 15.3 3.3 84 107 22.9 35/39 1070 24.11.10

FORD

KA 3dr hatch AAACC 1.2 Style+ 99 13.6 — 23.2 10.4 2.9 B-MAX 5dr MPV AAAAB 1.0T Ecoboost 117 11.6 39.0 11.1 11.0 2.8 FIESTA 3/5dr hatch AAAAC 1.4 Zetec 109 11.9 43.4 11.9 21.8 2.7 ST-2 137 7.0 17.0 6.0 7.1 2.6 FOCUS 5dr hatch AAAAC 1.5 TDCi Zetec 121 10.9 36.3 10.9 10.3 3.35 GRAND C-MAX 5dr MPV AAAAB 2.0 TDCi T’ium 124 9.2 28.6 8.8 11.1 2.8 S-MAX 5dr MPV AAAAC 2.0 TDCi T’im 123 10.5 32.0 10.4 13.9 2.5 GRAND TOURNEO CONNECT 5dr MPV AAAAC 1.6 TDCi T’ium 103 13.2 — 13.9 19.1 2.9

67

80 22.1 41/53 1020

25.2.09

118

147 23.6 35/41 1345

02.1.13

DEFENDER 3/5dr 4x4 AAAAC 90 XS 2.4D 83 15.1 — 17.0 15.5 3.5 DISCOVERY SPORT 5dr 4x4 AAAAC HSE Luxury 117 8.9 27.6 9.0 11.8 2.4 DISCOVERY 5dr 4x4 AAAAB TDV6 HSE 109 12.2 42.8 13.0 7.9 3.4 RANGE ROVER 5dr 4x4 AAAAB 4.4 SDV8 135 7.0 19.0 6.7 *3.8 2.9 RANGE ROVER EVOQUE 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 2.2 DS4 121 8.4 30.8 9.5 *5.7 3.1 RANGE ROVER SPORT 5dr 4x4 AAAAB 3.0 TDV6 130 7.8 22.5 7.5 12.2 3.1 SVR 162 4.4 10.3 3.8 12.6 2.6

95 94 21.9 34/41 1090 15.10.08 LEXUS 180 177 26.5 32/41 1163 15.5.13 IS 4dr saloon AAABC IS300h 143 8.1 20.2 118 199 33.1 59/63 1343 28.1.15 CT200H 5dr hatch AAACC SE-L 112 11.1 37.2 138 236 35.6 37/48 1705 17.11.10 GS 4dr saloon AAABC GS250 144 9.2 26.0 148 258 39.5 44/46 1725 26.8.15 NX 5dr 4x4 AAACC 300h 112 9.7 30.4 114 236 26.7 40/45 1785 6.8.14 RC F 2dr coupé AAACC RC F 168 4.8 10.7

188 310 47.2 34/37 1863 18.3.15 193 328 36.6 17/24 2718 16.11.04 334 516 41.8 25/35 2625 12.12.12 187 310 37.3 30/36 1815

13.7.11

255 442 43.1 33/42 2115 2.10.13 542 502 41.8 22/19 2335 15.4.15

7.3 *4.3 2.7 220 163 — 39/48 1720

21.8.13

11.4 *7.0 2.7 134 105/153 — 46/52 1450

23.3.11

9.0 16.2 2.9 207 187 34.4 26/32 1695 9.1 *5.6 2.7 194

na

1.8.12

— 32/38 1905

1.10.14

3.9 12.9 2.9 471 391 39 24/28 1765

18.2.15

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ROAD TEST RESULTS

318d Sport GT 130 9.5 28.6 9.5 12.4 2.7 141 4-SERIES 3dr coupé AAAAC 435i M Sport 155 5.5 13.2 5.2 6.3 2.7 302 M4 155 4.1 8.8 3.2 6.1 2.4 425 5-SERIES 4dr saloon/5dr GT/5dr estate AAAAC 530d SE 155 6.4 16.1 5.4 *3.3 3.0 241 520d SE Touring138 8.1 23.0 8.3 *5.0 2.6 181 ActiveHybrid5 155 5.6 13.5 5.0 10.5 2.6 335 M5 155 4.3 9.0 3.6 6.4 2.8 552 6-SERIES 2dr coupé/2dr open AAAAC 640d M Sport 155 5.3 13.1 4.6 *2.7 2.6 309 650i cabrio 155 5.6 12.4 4.5 7.8 2.6 402 7-SERIES 4dr saloon AAABC 730d 153 6.9 17.7 6.4 *3.7 2.9 242 30-70mph Indicates overtaking ability through the gears i3 5dr hatch AAAAC 50-70mph Recorded in top gear (*kickdown with an automatic) 1.3 Range Extd 93 8.1 — 7.6 *4.9 3.4 168 i8 2dr coupé AAAAB and demonstrates flexibility i8 155 4.5 10.6 3.7 3.3 2.8 357 Fuel economy Prior to 7.1.15, figures are touring, recorded over Z4 2dr convertible AAABC a set road route, and test average. From 7.1.15 on, figures are sDrive35i 155 5.1 12.3 4.2 *2.5 2.8 302 average and extra-urban, to the What Car?/True MPG standard X1 5dr 4x4 AAABC Braking 60-0mph Recorded on a high-grip surface at a test track sDrive20d SE 127 8.2 23.6 7.9 10.8 2.7 174 X3 5dr 4x4 AAAAC Mph/1000rpm Figure is the speed achieved in top gear xDrive20d SE 130 8.4 27.4 8.7 10.7 3.15 181 X4 5dr 4x4 AAABC xDrive30d 145 5.9 16.9 5.8 11.1 2.6 255 ALFA ROMEO X5 5dr 4x4 AAAAC MITO 3dr hatch AAABC xDrive M50d 155 5.7 15.3 5.2 9.5 2.9 376 1.4 Cloverleaf 136 7.9 21.1 6.9 7.3 2.7 168 184 23.2 36/42 1265 7.4.10 M 155 4.2 9.8 3.5 10.2 2.8 567 GIULIETTA 5dr hatch AAABC X6 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 2.0 JTDm 135 8.4 22.3 7.7 7.9 2.7 168 258 34.8 40/57 1475 13.10.10 xDrive35d 147 7.3 21.2 7.1 *4.1 2.6 282

Torque (lb/ft)

Power (bhp)

Braking 60-0mph

50-70mph

30-70mph

0-100mph

0-60mph

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Top speed

TEST DATE

Weight (kg)

Mpg test/touring

Mph/1000rpm

Torque (lb/ft)

Power (bhp)

Braking 60-0mph

50-70mph

30-70mph

0-100mph

0-60mph

Top speed

Make and Model

ROAD TEST RESULTS

Make and Model

Facts, figures, from the best road tests

LOTUS

ELISE 2dr roadster AAABC 1.6 127 6.7 21.1 EVORA 2dr coupé AAAAC Evora 2+2 162 5.4 13.0 Evora S 2+0 172 4.5 11.3 EXIGE S 2dr coupé AAAAB Exige S 170 4.1 9.6

118 24.7 39/42 900

4.7 8.2 2.3 276 258 27.8 24/33 1382 4.0 6.8 2.4 345 295 34.8 21/26 1430 3.7 5.5 2.5 345 295 27 21/30 1176

MASERATI

MAZDA

2 5dr hatch AAAAC 1.5 Sky’v-G SE 114 10.4 38.0 7.0 3 5dr hatch AAAAC 2.2 SE-L 130 9.0 26.6 9.1 5 5dr MPV AAACC 1.6D Sport 111 12.5 — 13.4 6 4dr saloon/5dr estate AAAAC 2.2 Sport Nav 139 7.9 21.2 7.1 MX-5 2dr open AAAAB 1.5 SE-L Nav 127 8.4 24.8 7.9 CX-3 5dr hatch AAABC 1.5D SE-L Nav 110 10.3 34.7 10.3 CX-5 5dr hatch AAABC 2.2 Sport Nav 126 9.4 28.0 9.1

20.2 3.1

89

109 27.9 51/55 1050

9.9 3.0 148 280 29.7 46/60 1470

12.3 18.7 3.0 79

81 22.6 45/53 1002

13.4 20.3 2.9 79

81 21.8 42/54 1036

10.3 —

104

9.7 2.3 148

MCLAREN

C63 4dr saloon AAAAB C63 155 4.4 9.7 3.4 7.5 2.7 469 GT 2dr coupé AAAAC S 193 3.6 7.8 2.8 5.5 2.5 503

11.1 12.9 2.9 109 192 35.0 49/56 1365 11.7 11.2 3.0 128 236 32.8 42/48 1550 4.7 9.9 2.4 326 270 30.5 26/34 1508 3.6 5.3 2.5 478 434 28.1 19/28 1775

NOBLE

2.9.15 208 3/5dr hatch AAACC 1.2 VTI Active 109 14.2 — 199 34.8 59/60 1275 22.7.15 GTi 30th 143 6.5 16.1 308 3/5dr hatch AAAAC 280 34.9 24/55 1575 13.6.12 1.6 e-HDI 115 118 10.1 32.6 508 SW estate AAAAC 2.0 HDi 163 138 9.6 28.6 2008 Mini SUV AAABC 500 35.4 18/24 1468 30.7.13 1.6 e-HDi 117 10.7 37.8 3008 5dr hatch AAABC 664 36.0 19.6/— — 7.5.14 Sport HDi 150 121 9.4 29.1 Hybrid4 118 9.0 31.6 5008 5dr MPV AAAAC 1.6 HDi 110 114 13.0 22.0 479 38.1 19/25 1715 3.6.15 RCZ 3dr coupé AAAAC R THP 270 155 6.8 15.3 479 34.7 20/29 1715 29.7.15

37.1 48/58 1475 7.11.12 38.1 27/37 1555 14.8.13 37.8 20/52 1495

29.2.12

37.2 15/25 1775

5.9.12

42.4 41/51 1700

23.7.14

37.3 44/54 1525

26.6.13

31.3 30/41 1485

27.7.11

34.8 36/42 1780 24.6.09 38.9 29/36 1995 17.2.10 30.0 26/36 1745 14.4.10 37.6 29/38 1775 39.6 36/43 1980

10.4 13.9 3.0 114

199 38.5 48/59 1395

9.7 5.8 2.57 161 255 32.3 32/46 1680 11.5 11.8 3.2 114

199 32.7 49/59 1180

9.1 9.5 2.1 148 251 32.2 44/50 1580 8.9 8.6 2.6 161+36221+14832.7 41/49 1790 13.2 9.8 3.1 107 192 28.1 20/48 1547 5.5 5.8 3.0 266 243 24.2 36/44 1355

BOXSTER 2dr convertible AAAAB S 3.4 172 4.7 11.4 4.2 CAYMAN 3dr coupé AAAAA 2.7 165 5.9 13.6 5.1 911 2dr coupé AAAAB Carrera 180 4.8 10.8 3.8 Targa 182 4.3 9.8 3.6 Turbo S 197 3.0 7.1 2.6 GT3 RS 193 3.4 7.8 2.8 918 SPYDER 2dr coupé AAAAA 4.6 V8 214 2.6 5.3 1.9 PANAMERA 5dr hatch AAABC 4.8 Turbo 188 4.0 9.2 3.4 MACAN 5dr 4x4 AAAAB Turbo 165 4.7 11.8 4.3 CAYENNE 5dr 4x4 AAABC Hybrid 150 6.0 16.6 6.0

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8.2 2.7 271 214 23.9 29/34 1385 11.7 15.0 6.8 6.9

2.3 2.4 2.6 2.4

345 394 552 493

288 325 553 339

32.8 37.9 37.9 24.2

21/35 21/29 20/31 20/28

1445 1578 1605 1495

2.2 2.3 874 944 41.2 28/44 1740 13.5 2.5 493 567 45.0 20/28 2045 7.9 2.4 394 406 35.7 22/31 2000 *3.6 2.5 374 324 37.8 26/29 2315

RADICAL

3 5dr hatch AAABC ROLLS-ROYCE 1.5 3Form Spt 108 11.4 41.5 11.6 19.6 2.8 105 101 22.2 37/41 1150 25.12.13 PHANTOM 4dr saloon AAAAC 6 5dr hatch AACCC Phantom 149 6.0 14.7 5.3 1.8 T 120 8.8 25.8 9.2 11 2.8 158 159 28 29/37 1525 11.5.11 2dr Coupé 155 6.1 15.5 5.9 GHOST 4dr saloon AAAAC MINI Ghost 155 4.9 10.6 3.9 MINI 3dr hatch AAAAB WRAITH 2dr coupé AAAAB Cooper S 146 6.9 17.1 5.9 6.7 2.5 189 221 26.4 35/54 1235 2.4.14 Wraith 155 4.6 10.0 4.5 JCW GP 150 6.6 14.9 5.2 5.6 2.4 215 192 23.6 34/45 1160 20.2.13 COUNTRYMAN 5dr hatch AAABC SEAT Cooper D All4 115 11.1 - 11.5 16.1 2.6 110 199 34.8 39/43 1475 29.9.10 IBIZA 3/5dr hatch AAAAC COUPE 2dr coupé AAABC Cupra 1.4 TSI 140 7.0 19.6 6.3 JCW 149 7.2 17.0 6.0 6.0 2.8 208 207 23.9 33/46 1230 26.10.11 LEON 3/5dr hatch AAAAC ROADSTER 2dr convertible AAABC SC 2.0 TDI FR 142 8.0 22.1 7.5 Cooper S 141 8.1 19.9 7.3 8.0 2.5 182 177 23.7 33/45 1260 9.5.12 Cupra SC 280 155 5.9 13.6 4.4 ALHAMBRA 5dr MPV AAAAC MITSUBISHI 2.0 TDI 170 DSG127 10.5 38.3 11.2 ASX 5dr hatch AAABC 1.8 DiD 3 124 10.0 28.8 10.1 8.6 2.8 148 221 29.6 49/57 1490 21.7.10 SMART OUTLANDER 5dr 4x4 AAABC FORTWO 3dr hatch AAACC 2.2 DiD GX5 118 10.2 32.9 10.1 11.1 3.07 147 265 34.7 38/45 1675 27.3.13 Prime 96 11.2 — 11.4 PHEV GX4hs 106 10.0 30.5 9.5 6.2 3.0 200 245 — 44/38 1810 16.4.14

MORGAN

14.2 2.9 311 266 40.3 25/32 1420

13.4.11 SR3 SL 2dr AAAAC 9.1.13 SR3 SL 161 3.4 8.4 3.7 4.8 2.7 245 265 24.9 14/- 765

45.6 34/44 1975 16.10.13 RENAULT 42.8 22/25 2070 3.12.14 TWINGO 5dr hatch AAABC Dynamique 94 17.6 — 19.1 36.4 40/48 1535 14.5.14 ZOE 5dr hatch AAABC Dynamique 84 12.3 — 13.9 36.2 38/41 2310 2.5.12 CLIO 5dr hatch AAAAC 0.9 TCE 113 13.4 — 13.9 37.7 28/33 2455 24.7.13 RS 200 Turbo 143 7.4 20.9 6.9 MEGANE 3/5dr hatch AAACC 39.6 10/24 1815 8.8.12 250 Cup 156 6.0 13.7 4.9 34.3 17/21 2000 7.5.08 275 Trophy-R 158 6.4 14.0 5.0 37.4 16/22 1880 8.4.09 SCENIC 5dr MPV AAAAC Grand 1.4 TCe 121 11.0 34.8 10.4

PLUS 8 2dr convertible AAACC 4.8 V8 — 4.9 11.1 4.0 8.3 3.2 390 370 36.0 24/32 1230 3 WHEELER 2dr convertible AAAAA 3 Wheeler 115 8.0 29.9 7.7 5.1 3.56 80 103 21.3 30/- 520

TEST DATE

Weight (kg)

Mpg test/touring

Mph/1000rpm

Torque (lb/ft)

Power (bhp)

Braking 60-0mph

50-70mph

30-70mph

0-100mph

0-60mph

Top speed

Make and Model

SUZUKI

19.2.14 ALTO 5dr hatch AAAAC 1.0 SZ3 96 11.5 — 12.9 13.8.14 SWIFT 3/5dr hatch AAABC 1.2 SZ4 103 11.6 37.2 11.1 29.7.09 CELERIO 5dr hatch AAABC 1.0 SZ4 96 12.9 — 14.3 6.5.09 SX4 S-CROSS 5dr hatch AAABC 1.6 DDiS SZ4 111 10.0 32.6 10.1 VITARA 5dr hatch AAABC 1.6 SZ5 112 9.5 29.8 9.5 14.10.09

20.7 2.8 67

66 21.9 50/69 885

22.4.09

18.7 3.0 93

87 21.5 43/47 1010

15.9.10

25.0 3.0 67

66 22.4 54/57 835

25.3.15

8.9 2.57 118 236 35.1 57/67 1290 30.10.13 15.5 —

118

115 24.3 49/47 1075

29.4.15

MODEL S 5dr hatch AAAAB Performance 130 4.7 11.7 3.7 2.2 2.7 416 443 8.7 411Wh/m 2108

11.9.13

TESLA

14.5 9.1 2.9 81 87 21.2 41/45 1080 18.7.12 5.8 6.7 2.9 205 221 25.6 41/42 1160 11.2.15

PORSCHE

MERCEDES-BENZ

9.9.15 7.10.09

SUBARU

PEUGEOT

111 24.5 46/49 1050

A-CLASS 5dr hatch AAABC A200CDI Sport 130 8.9 28.3 9.0 10.1 2.5 134 221 A45AMG 168 4.2 11.5 4.3 4.5 2.8 355 322 B-CLASS 5dr MPV AAABC B200 CDI Sport130 9.4 28.8 9.6 11.9 2.7 134 221 C-CLASS 4dr AAAAC C63 AMG Black 186 4.0 9.2 3.3 7.5 2.66 510 457 NEW C-CLASS 4dr AAAAC C220 Bluetec 145 8.1 22.9 8.1 11.7 2.8 168 295 CLA 4dr coupé AAACC 220 CDI Sport 143 8.3 23.1 8.0 4.8 2.9 168 258 SLK 2dr cc AAACC SLK 200 149 7.5 18.9 7.0 9.9 2.8 181 184 E-CLASS 4dr saloon/5dr estate/2dr convertible AAAAC E250 CDI auto 149 7.7 20.3 7.4 *4.4 2.9 201 367 E350 CDI estate149 6.9 19.2 6.9 *4.0 2.9 228 398 E250 CGI cab 155 7.4 19.6 7.5 4.5 2.4 201 229 CLS 4dr coupé/5dr estate AAAAC 350 BlueEff. 155 6.5 16.0 5.7 *3.3 2.5 302 273 350CDI S’Brake 155 7.0 18.5 6.4 *3.8 2.9 261 457 S-CLASS 4dr saloon/2dr coupé AAAAA S350 Bluetec 155 7.3 19.0 6.8 *3.9 2.7 255 457 S63 AMG coupé 155 4.5 9.6 3.4 6.8 2.7 577 664 GLA 5dr 4x4 AAABC 220 CDI SE 134 8.1 23.8 7.8 4.7 2.65 168 258 M-CLASS 5dr 4x4 AAAAC ML250 130 8.8 28.4 9.3 11.0 2.9 201 368 GL 5dr 4x4 AAAAC GL350 AMG Spt 137 8.3 24.8 8.2 5.0* 2.6 255 457 SL 2dr convertible AAAAC SL500 155 4.3 9.9 3.6 6.5 2.7 429 516 SL63 AMG 155 4.6 10.4 3.8 8.7 2.5 518 465 SL65 Black 200 4.2 8.5 3.0 6.0 2.5 661 737

SUPERB 5dr hatch/estate AAAAB 2.0 TDI SE 135 8.8 24.9 8.2 11.2 2.8 148 251 37.2 47/54 1505 19.1.11 YETI 5dr SUV AAABC 2.0 TDI 140 119 10.7 39.1 11.2 12.3 2.7 138 236 34.5 36/46 1545 9.10.13

10.8 13.1 2.9 108 192 35.7 50/57 1307 12.11.14 XV 5dr hatch AAACC 2.0D SE 120 8.9 29.1 9.5 10.1 2.7 145 258 34.7 39/51 1465 21.3.12 9.9 12.7 3.0 115 117 19.5 36/46 1230 3.11.10 FORESTER 3/5dr hatch AAACC 6.0 7.2 2.5 197 184 23.8 31/39 1295 22.5.13 2.0d XC 118 9.9 36.5 10.5 11.0 2.9 145 258 33.0 41/49 1540 5.6.13 6.0 9.0 3.2 215 207 23.9 34/35 1341 11.3.15 WRX 4dr saloon AAACC STI Type UK 159 5.4 13.3 5.1 9.4 2.8 296 300 27.6 23/31 1534 25.6.14 11.4 7.3 2.8 107 207 8.76 320Wh/m 1545 27.4.11

199 31.3 35/40 1555 16.2.11 M600 2dr coupé AAAAB M600 225 3.5 6.8 2.5 4.7 2.45 650 604 29.9 18/25 1305 7.9 2.7 173 309 35 44/56 1480 23.1.13 14.7 3.3 129

TEST DATE

Weight (kg)

Mpg test/touring

Mph/1000rpm

Torque (lb/ft)

Power (bhp)

Braking 60-0mph

50-70mph

30-70mph

0-100mph

0-60mph

Top speed

MICRA 5dr hatch AABCC 26.5.10 1.2 Tekna 105 11.6 — NOTE 5dr hatch AAAAC 26.8.09 1.2AcentaPrm 106 12.6 — 30.3.11 PULSAR 5dr hatch AAACC 1.5dCin-tec 118 10.9 35.5 3.4.13 JUKE 5dr hatch AAABC Acenta 1.6 111 10.3 41.6 Nismo 1.6 134 6.9 17.2 Nismo RS 137 7.5 18.7 2.2.08 LEAF 5dr hatch AAABC Leaf 91 10.9 — 14.7.10 QASHQAI 5dr hatch AAAAB 1.5 dCi 2WD 113 10.8 39.2 12.3.14 X-TRAIL 5dr hatch AAABC 1.6 dCi 2WD 117 11.2 39.7 370Z 2dr coupé AAAAC 370Z 155 5.4 12.8 22.4.15 GT-R 2dr coupé AAAAB Black Edition 193 3.8 8.5 4.12.13

11.1 2.9 113

650S 2dr coupé/roadster AAAAB 3.8 V8 Spider 204 3.2 6.3 2.2 5.9 2.5 641 P1 2dr coupé AAAAA P1 217 2.8 5.2 2.2 6.0 2.3 903

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NISSAN

7.1 14.3 2.9 134

GRANTURISMO 2dr coupé AAABC 4.2 GT 177 5.6 13.0 4.9 *2.8 2.8 400 339 32.1 18/27 1975 GRANCABRIO 2dr open AAABC 4.7 V8 175 5.1 11.9 4.5 11.2 2.4 433 362 32.1 17/22 2085 GHIBLI 4dr saloon AAABC Diesel 155 6.5 17.2 6.0 5.1 2.7 271 443 43.3 31/40 1835

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TEST DATE

Weight (kg)

Mpg test/touring

Mph/1000rpm

Torque (lb/ft)

Power (bhp)

Braking 60-0mph

50-70mph

30-70mph

0-100mph

0-60mph

Top speed

Make and Model

ROAD TEST RESULTS

ROAD TEST RESULTS

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AYGO 5dr hatchback AAABC 15.1.14 1.0 VVTi 99 13.9 — 15.2 24.1 YARIS 5dr hatchback AAABC 25.5.11 1.33 TR 114 11.5 43.6 10.9 19.6 VERSO-S 5dr hatchback AAACC 19.6.13 1.3 T Spirit 106 12.1 38.5 11.7 19.2 GT86 3dr coupé AAAAA 11.11.09 2.0 manual 140 7.4 18.8 6.8 10.6 25.1.12 AURIS 3/5dr hatch AAACC 1.6 T Spirit 117 9.9 30.7 9.4 13.4 27.1.10 PRIUS 5dr hatch AAAAC T Spirit 112 10.9 35.0 10.9 *6.6 12.2.14 LAND CRUISER V8 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 4.5 D-4D 130 8.6 27.5 9.1 *5.4

3.0 68

70 22.5 49/63 900

2.7.14

2.9 98

92 23.7 42/51 1065

28.9.11

2.9 98

92 21.7 39/48 1125

9.3.11

2.6 197

151 23.5 30/45 1235

4.7.12

2.7 122

116 20.0 30/37 1275

17.1.07

2.9 98+80 105+153 — 48/56 1415

8.7.09

3.0 282 479 40.3 18/20 2880 30.1.08

VAUXHALL

27.6.12 ADAM 5dr hatch AAACC 1.2JamecoFLEX 103 14.3 — 15.3 20.8 24.4.13 VIVA 5dr hatch AAABC 1.0 SE A/C 106 13.0 — 14.1 19.0 7.3.12 CORSA 3/ 5dr AAABC 18.6.14 1.4T SRi VX-Line 115 11.7 45.1 12.1 15.3 8.1.14 VXR 143 7.2 18.3 6.4 7.8 19.8.15 MERIVA 5dr MPV AAABC 1.4T 140 SE 122 9.4 28.3 8.7 13.1 22.10.14 ASTRA 3/5dr hatch AAAAC GTC 1.6 Turbo 137 8.8 24.3 8.2 13.4 20.9.09 2.0 VXR 155 6.4 16.5 6.0 7.0 INSIGNIA 5dr hatch/estate AAAAC 4.6.14 2.0 CDTi 160 135 9.1 25.3 8.4 10.3 ZAFIRA TOURER 5dr AAABC 23.6.10 2.0 CDTi 165 129 10.4 36.8 10.2 14.3 MOKKA Mini SUV AAABC 1.4T 118 10.0 30.6 9.4 13.7 VXR8 4dr saloon AAAAB 30.11.11 GTS 155 4.8 10.2 3.7 7.4

2.8 68

85 21.8 39/45 1086

6.2.13

—

70 20.3 49/55 938

15.7.15

74

2.9 99 148 34.8 37/42 1176 19.11.14 2.4 202 181 23.8 29/34 1280 6.5.15 2.6 138 148 25.5 31/37 1465

2.6.10

2.7 178 170 28.3 31/38 1465 23.11.11 2.8 276 295 27.6 27/33 1565 25.7.12 2.7 158 258 36.1 19/44 1655 19.11.08 3.2 163 258 37.7 38/46 1805 15.2.12 3.0 138 148 26.1 32/40 1350 28.11.12 2.5 577 546 34.9 18/25 1882

30.4.14

VOLKSWAGEN

29.4 2.9 69 9.1 2.9 87 19.1 2.8 89 9.1 2.8 197 6.6 2.7 247 6.4 3.1 271 9.2 2.3 129

*3.0 2.7 453 *3.4 2.9 453 *2.3 2.6 563 *2.1 2.9 624

UP 3dr hatch AAAAC 67 20.8 42/52 865 29.10.14 1.0 High Up 106 13.8 — 14.7 18.6 2.8 POLO 3/5dr hatch AAAAC 162 7.8 250Wh/m 1468 31.7.13 1.2 70PS SE 103 14.2 — 15.4 23 2.9 1.4 TSI BlueGT 130 7.5 22.2 7.1 8.0 2.9 100 23.8 38/47 1009 6.3.13 GOLF 3/5dr hatch AAAAB 177 20.8 32/37 1204 23.10.13 GTI Perf. DSG 155 6.5 16.4 5.9 8.9 2.8 2.0 TDI 134 9.6 27.6 8.6 11.7 2.9 251 28.4 28/34 1320 13.1.10 R 155 4.8 12.0 4.3 6.5 2.9 266 27 26/33 1297 5.11.14 e-Golf 87 10.5 — 11.0 7.0 2.7 GTE 138 7.7 18.2 6.1 7.7 2.5 140 22.1 28/36 1457 16.9.09 GOLF CABRIOLET 2dr convertible AAABC 1.6 TDI 117 12.2 44.6 12.8 13.2 2.7 SCIROCCO 2dr coupé AAAAB 2.0 TSI GT 144 6.7 17.0 6.1 7.9 2.7 531 38.7 8/17 2485 2.4.03 2.0 TSI R 155 6.5 13.7 4.9 5.9 2.7 531 38.7 7/18 2495 27.8.08 PASSAT 4dr saloon/5dr estate AAAAC 2.0 TDI 190 GT 144 8.7 23.6 8.1 13.1 3.2 575 46.0 18/23 2450 7.7.10 TIGUAN 5dr 4x4 AAABC 2.0 TDI Sport 115 10.3 37.5 10.9 9.9 2.9 590 45.9 15/27 2435 21.5.14 TOUAREG 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 3.0 V6 TDI SE 135 6.9 19.8 6.8 *3.9 2.7

70 20.5 44/59 945

7.12.11

69 83 22.8 41/51 1075 138 184 28.1 40/49 1212

74

23.9.09 13.2.13

227 148 296 113 201

10.7.13 16.1.13 9.4.14 10.9.14 20.5.15

258 236 280 199 258

34.4 32/38 1402 37.4 44/56 1390 27.1 34/29 1495 7.6 244Wh/m1585 7.6 44/45 1599

103 184 32.6 47/57 1495 31.8.11 197 207 20.6 29/39 1390 261 258 26.3 28/34 1400

10.9.08 24.2.10

187 295 37.9 45/52 1614

4.2.15

138 236 30.0 31/39 1755 28.11.07 236 406 38.5 32/37 2155

1.9.10

VOLVO

*3.6 2.4 178 184 21.3 31/40 1172 21.10.09 V40 4dr hatch AAABC D3 SE Lux 130 8.9 26.6 8.7 9.6 2.9 181 280 35.6 47/54 1350 4.9.13 S60 4dr saloon AAAAC 7.1 2.7 276 258 27.2 28/36 1441 26.3.14 D4 SE Nav 143 7.6 20.4 6.9 V60 5dr estate AAABC *7.0 3.0 168 258 30.5 35/40 1935 1.12.10 D5 SE Lux 143 8.1 21.0 7.1 Plug-in Hybrid 134 6.1 17.2 5.5 Polestar 155 5.3 13.1 4.6 V70 5dr estate AAABC 12.3 3.2 89 97 22.3 —/— 880 4.3.15 2.4 D5 138 8.9 24.1 8.2 XC60 5dr 4x4 AAAAC SKODA D5 SE Lux 118 9.5 30.5 9.5 FABIA 5dr hatch AAAAC XC90 5dr 4x4 AAAAC 1.2 TSI 90 SE-L 113 12.6 46 12.5 15.0 3.4 89 118 26.1 45/49 1109 21.1.15 D5 Momentum 137 8.3 23.9 8.3 22.8.12 OCTAVIA 4dr saloon/5dr estate AAAAC 1.6 TDI SE 121 11.6 43.0 12.5 13.6 2.7 104 184 32.3 46/56 1230 10.4.13 WESTFIELD 6.6.12 RAPID 4dr saloon AAABC SPORT TURBO 3dr hatch AAABC 1.2 TSI 114 11.3 45.5 11.5 14.2 2.9 84 118 26.1 40/47 1175 5.12.12 ST3 UK200 142 4.6 12.6 6.9

10.2 2.8 148 258 36.5 46/52 1545 15.8.12 9.2 3.0 179 295 39.4 46/59 1580

5.3.14

8.2 2.7 202 310 39.2 32/48 1700 8.12.10 3.2 2.6 279 382 34.3 44/49 1955 1.5.13 9.0 2.6 345 369 34.8 26/32 1834 15.10.14 9.8 2.8 182 295 35.6 32/39 1835

22.8.07

*5.8 2.9 182 295 33.6 17/36 1930 26.11.08 *5.0 — 222 347 33.6 37/39 2009 17`.6.15

4.7 3.1 201 185 22.7 25/– 650

3.10.12

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The birth of modern Audi 10 September 1965 D

uring the mid-1960s, ownership of the Auto Union brand gradually shifted from Daimler to Volkswagen, which bought up shares and invested heavily in the Auto Union factory in Ingolstadt.

That plant was producing threecylinder, two-stroke DKW models, but Volkswagen adopted a plan already put in place by Daimler to create a new family saloon around a 1696cc fourcylinder, four-stroke engine.

Although the saloon used most of the same underpinnings as DKW’s F102, VW wanted to tell the world that this was essentially a new car. So Wolfsburg looked to the other manufacturer names that had originally comprised Auto Union, namely Audi, Horch and Wanderer. With Horch retained

by Daimler and the Wanderer name presumably deemed not exactly ripe for revival, the new car was christened the Auto Union Audi, with ‘Audi’ as a model name rather than a make.

Autocar investigated the new car ahead of its 1966 debut. “Like the original Audi models and, of course, DKW ones as well, the new car features front-wheel drive with an all-synchromesh fourspeed gearbox and inboard disc brakes at the front,” said Autocar. “The new

Although the saloon used most of the same underpinnings as DKW’s F102, VW wanted to tell the world that this was essentially a new car engine has been designed and developed by Mercedes-Benz, tested and approved by Volkswagen and will be built by Auto Union.”

Setting a template for future Audis, the engine was “inclined at 40deg and mounted in front of the driven front wheels. A longer nose – the car has an front overhang of 872mm – overcomes the problem of fitting the engine in the front compartment.

“To keep the bonnet line low and particularly the centre of gravity, the engine is canted over at 40deg so that the induction side is on top.”

Intent on giving the Audi a better ride quality than its DKW sibling, Volkswagen focused on developing the suspension. “Double wishbones

at the front are sprung by adjustable longitudinal torsion bars, and the telescopic dampers incorporate progressive rubber bump stops.

“Three reasons are given for the inboard brakes: they give less unsprung weight, to improve the suspension; they are not restricted in diameter by the wheel rim size; and there is a direct flow of cooling air through this part of the engine compartment.”

With its new, longer engine, the Audi was about four inches longer than the DKW F102, but otherwise the dimensions were much the same. There were rectangular headlamps and no mesh in the grille, just a surround and the four Auto Union linked rings, one for each of the original four companies.

“The body shell has a flat floor, since there is no propeller shaft, and there is room for five people,” said Autocar.

“As the gearchange lever is on the steering column, there would be room for an additional front-seat passenger if separate seats were not fitted.”

After a 25-year absence, the Audi name was back, and its arrival was well timed. Sales of two-strokes were falling and the DKW brand associated with such units was phased out as the new Auto Union became available in 1966.

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