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  • BMW X3 2.0d (2008) review

    Price:  £29,715

    05 August 2008 by Ben Barry

    Previously untouchable in the premium compact SUV segment, the BMW X3 now finds itself with some impressive competition. Audi has the Q5 and coming over the hill, looking like a monster, is Mercedes’...

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  • Audi Q5 2.0 TDI (2008) review

    Price:  £30,000

    10 July 2008 by Ben Pulman

    The Audi Q5 is here – and we've driven it. Finally Ingolstadt has a medium-sized SUV with which to battle the likes of the BMW X3 and Mercedes GLK. But in the war of the small, premium Germans 4x4s,...

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  • Smart Fortwo CDI (2008) review

    Price:  £8,000

    09 July 2008 by Andrew Noakes

    Hybrids might be promoted as the environment’s friends, but if you’re really serious about reducing CO2 emissions, and can’t manage without a car, then what you need is the smallest and most...

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  • Audi A4 2.0 TDI SE (2008) review

    Price:  £23,600

    09 July 2008 by Glen Waddington

    If you want an Audi A4 2.0 TDI there’s no way I’m going to be able to talk you into buying a Ford Mondeo, even though it’s cheaper and much more engaging to drive. If you want an Audi, you’re set on...

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  • VW Golf Bluemotion 1.9 TDI 5dr (2008) review

    Price:  £16,140

    08 July 2008 by Dan Trent

    Blue is the new green and Volkswagen's eco-friendly line-up continues to grow. Alongside the Polo and Passat, the Golf has now had the Bluemotion treatment – but at what price? If you want that silver...

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  • Peugeot 407 1.6 HDI (2008) review

    07 July 2008 by Richard Aucock

    Peugeot doesn’t really do facelifts. Look at any model over the years, and there is rarely any mid-life new radicalism. But even by these standards, the ‘new’ 407 is hard to spot. New bumpers include...

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  • Ford Mondeo 1.8 Econetic (2008) review

    Price:  £18,745

    04 July 2008 by Tim Pollard

    Another week, another mainstream model that's been 'greened'. Ford is launching Econetic models across its range – with the common goal of boosting economy and battering emissions. The new Mondeo...

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  • Jaguar X-type 2.2D (2008) review

    Price:  £23,950

    01 July 2008 by Richard Aucock

    The X-type isn’t dead. It’s been given another facelift. Should we care? Well, while it can’t hold a candle to a 3-series or A4, it is now becoming the car it always should’ve been. This latest...

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  • Citroen C5 Tourer 2.2 HDi Exclusive (2008) review

    Price:  £22,495

    30 June 2008 by Keith Adams

    The Citroen C5 has certainly attracted its fair share of attention recently thanks to that annoying advertising campaign. However, despite marketing that’s brimming with premium Teutonic rhetoric,...

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  • VW Passat 1.9 Bluemotion (2008) review

    Price:  £18,450

    24 June 2008 by Richard Aucock

    The Passat Bluemotion is part of a burgeoning range of eco-Volkswagens. The Polo Bluemotion started things off, but it is the dearer, more mainstream stuff  - like the Passat - that will make VW...

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  • Ssangyong Kyron 2.0 S 2WD (2008) review

    Price:  £14,995

    20 June 2008 by Richard Aucock

    Completing our test of the relaunched SsangYong range is this: the Kyron 4x4. Straddling compact and working SUV status, the Kyron was previously saddled with naïve pricing that punched way above its...

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  • Citroen Berlingo Multispace 1.6HDi VTR (2008) review

    Price:  £12,375

    17 June 2008 by Christopher Hubbard

    The old Citroen Berlingo Multispace looked like a van, drove like a van. Was a van. But it defined a whole new segment of functional family carriers. Citroen has sold nearly a million of the boxy...

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  • Ssangyong Rodius 270 S (2008) review

    Price:  £14,995

    12 June 2008 by Richard Aucock

    The Rodius is a well established winner... In ugly car awards, that is. So let’s look at the method in the madness, instead. Yes, it’s huge – stretching to over five metres in length – and that yields...

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  • Ssangyong Rexton 270 S (2008) review

    Price:  £19,995

    12 June 2008 by Richard Aucock

    With the relaunch of SsangYong in the UK, we're testing all their latest products. Dealers say they sell the Rexton large SUV to buyers with an inkling for an X5, but not the cash. It’s SsangYong’s...

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  • Mercedes CLC 220 CDI (2008) review

    Price:  £22,260

    11 June 2008 by Christopher Hubbard

    Previously the C-class Sports Coupe, now the Mercedes-Benz CLC, this is the junior coupe in the three-pointed star’s line-up. Some 1100 modifications underline the change to the bootbadge. But is the...

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  • Lancia Delta CAR (2008) review

    10 June 2008 by Gavin Green

    Lancia is set to return to the UK midway through 2009, having departed ignominiously 14 years ago, its range of tinselled Fiats proving about as popular as gelato in a London winter. The car that...

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  • Volvo S40 2.0D SE Powershift (2008) review

    Price:  £20,570

    10 June 2008 by Colin Overland

    Volvo has joined the twin-clutch brigade with the arrival of this, the S40 2.0D with the Powershift transmission option. Powershift is Ford and Volvo’s take on the DSG idea that came to the fore with...

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  • Seat Ibiza 1.4 TDI Ecomotive (2008) review

    Price:  £11,630

    04 June 2008 by Tim Pollard

    The Seat Ibiza Ecomotive is one of the most smile-inducing cars I’ve driven this year. It’s not very powerful (79bhp) or expensive (£11k), but it does deliver a knock-out blow to your pocket – and...

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  • Mercedes S320 CDI LWB (2008) review

    Price:  £59,885

    02 June 2008 by Ben Pulman

    The best car Mercedes makes? Surely it’s got to be the S320 CDI. The S-class absolutely dominates its market segment and, according to Merc, nearly 25 percent of all limos sold in the UK are the...

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  • Mercedes B180 CDI 5dr (2008) review

    Price:  £20,850

    30 May 2008 by Guy Bird

    Plaudits for the Mercedes B-class were thin on the ground back in 2005 when the car first launched, pitched as a ‘Compact Sports Tourer’. To drive it was nothing of the sort – not as ‘compact’ or...

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