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VW Amarok in Patagonia (CAR archive, April 2010)

Rated 5 out of 55

Ben Oliver, 12 August 2012 10:00

I don’t know why I thought this was a good idea. I’m standing on a tonne of timber piled, unsecured, into the back of a Volkswagen Amarok with the tailgate down, and I’m clinging to its fat chrome roll bar because beneath me the truck is bellowing and bucking over soft sand and thick clumps of brush as it climbs ...

Gavin Green on that Bentley SUV and Brit luxury icons

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 20 March 2012 07:08

The Germans have done a fine job at running the British car industry. Every major British-bred car company – Land Rover, Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Mini, Aston Martin – has a German boss. Most of these companies are doing very well, Land Rover, Mini and Rolls-Royce spectacularly so. The three best British cars of the past decade – the Range Rover, ...

Stuff wot I've driven – Mitsubishi ASX

Rated 1 out of 51

Anthony ffrench-Constant, 13 March 2012 13:00

Unremarkable time spent in Mitsubishi’s instantly forgettable ASX has left me thoroughly baffled. Is there really room in a market segment already packed tighter than Linford Christie’s Lycra for yet another SUV of this order? Especially one which, more than any rival I’ve yet encountered, merits a paraphrasing of that old Beatles number: ‘I’ve got nothing to say but it’s ...

Georg Kacher: my 2012 Car of the Year verdict

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Georg Kacher, 05 March 2012 14:30

Toyota Yaris1 point Okay, so this is the cheapest hybrid on the market. But as a car, even the green Yaris is not as desirable as one of the better petrol- or diesel-engined rivals. Citroen DS5                  1 point Great design, great interior, great quality. Shame about the artificial steering, the grabby brakes and the unacceptable ride. VW Up4 points The Up ...

Why Macan lives up to Porsche’s naming convention

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Greg Fountain, 20 February 2012 14:45

Porsche must by now be used to the stunned silence every time it announces the name of a new model. Last week the news that its baby SUV would be called Macan was greeted by a global shrug of super-Gallic proportions, and equally unsurprising was the risible ‘explanation’ that the word is ‘derived from’ the Indonesian for tiger (Blah blah ...

Driving a Land Rover Disco support car in Africa

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Oliver, 09 February 2012 10:20

I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise to you, but the glorious white Jaguar XJ Supersports in which Andy Green and I did the first high-speed recce run on the Hakskeen Pan wasn’t the only car there that day. You might have read the story in the current, February issue of CAR. This dry lake bed in South Africa’s ...

Inside Land Rover's top-secret test facility

Rated 2 out of 52

Ben Barry, 21 November 2011 09:45

For CAR’s December 2011 issue, I was lucky enough to drive both the Land Rover DC100 concepts just before they were shipped to the LA motor show. The location, naturally, was Land Rover’s Gaydon test facility, which, stangely enough, was a first for me. I say strangely because I’ve now been in this business for 12 years, and in that ...

CAR readers interview F1 champ Sebastian Vettel

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Whitworth, 23 September 2011 13:06

CAR grabbed seven-and-a-half minutes with Red Bull Racing driver and reigning F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel at the recent 2011 Frankfurt motor show. As promised, we put your questions to Vettel, who was on the Infiniti stand to unveil his own personal FX50. He's an ambassador for Infiniti, see. We didn't quite secure the full quarter of an hour we were ...

Nissan Qashqai: the latest million seller versus the first

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

James Foxall, 09 August 2011 11:29

Rather like female Formula One drivers, the club of million-selling motors designed and built in Britain is neither fast nor pretty – but definitely exclusive. And with production of the Nissan Qashqai slipping into seven figures the fellowship has just initiated a new member. Remarkably, (and conveniently for us) Nissan has managed this feat exactly half a century after this ...

Off-road in the Range Rover Evoque

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Chris Chilton, 05 April 2011 09:00

But is it a proper Range Rover? That’s the question you’ve probably been asking yourself since you recoiled in horror at Land Rover’s decision to parade Victoria Beckham around at the launch of the Evoque. Okay, so we know the marketing reasons behind that, it’s all about reaching out to a new demographic with a new type of car. But ...

CAR magazine June issue 611
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