http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=4294780587+692&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Blogs | Diesel RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30Hamburg is a long way to go to poke around a new car and not drive it, but when it's a new Mercedes S-class, it's worth the trek, if only to see the tech that'll be filtering down to Golfs...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ollie-Kew-Blog/Trip-diary-how-Mercedes-launches-a-new-S-class/Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 GMTBlogsDiscovering she had won first prize in CAR’s competition to spend a year’s motoring in six brand new BMWs had Tracey Lee of Oxfordshire doing a victory dance mid-grocery shop when our associate editor Tim Pollard telephoned with the good...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/A-year-of-new-BMWS---by-our-CAR-competition-winner/Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTBlogsI 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Amarok-in-Patagonia-CAR-archive-April-2010/Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMTBlogsAhead of this weekend's 80th running of the world-famous endurance race, here's CAR's countdown of the 24 most iconic men, motors and moments that have defined the 24 Heures du Mans.1923: The first Le MansThe inaugural race on 26-27 May...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/24-moments-that-made-Le-Mans/Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:00:00 GMTBlogsNothing against China but it seems to me its influence over the car industry is becoming problematic. The world’s great car makers allowing Chinese tastes to dictate the conception and production of their cars is rather like the world’s great...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Greg-Fountain-Blog/Note-to-car-industry-China-isnt-the-only-market-/Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:00:00 GMTBlogsUnremarkable 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Anthony-Ffrench-Constant-blog/Stuff-wot-Ive-driven--Mitsubishi-ASX/Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:00:00 GMTBlogsToyota 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Georg-Kacher-Blog/Georg-Kacher-my-2012-Car-of-the-Year-verdict/Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:30:00 GMTBlogsEver wondered why the speedometers in modern cars have such high readings stretching way beyond the car's actual top speed? I do on a nearly daily basis - and in fact have blogged on this before. It's incredibly frustrating when...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Why-does-your-speedo-go-so-much-faster-than-your-car/Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:17:00 GMTBlogsIs VW’s recently announced MQB (Modular Transverse Matrix) a new idea or old hat? Starting with the new VW Golf Mk7 arriving in the UK in spring 2012, the idea heralds a return to basic principles of mass production in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Jesse-Crosse/Tomorrows-world-Volkswagens-new-MQB-platform-tech-explained/Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:12:00 GMTBlogsPorsche 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Greg-Fountain-Blog/Why-the-Macan-lives-up-to-Porsches-bizarre-naming-convention/Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:45:00 GMTBlogsWe were quite surprised when Jaguar dropped a 'scoop' shot of a disguised Jag XF Sportbrake on to its Twitter feed this week. Particularly when it had Father Christmas in piling up the boot with presents. It goes to show...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Jaguars-weird-world-of-a-scoop-Christmas-card/Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:53:00 GMTBlogsFor 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Inside-Land-Rovers-top-secret-test-facility/Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:45:00 GMTBlogsIf you’ve seen the latest September 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, you might have noticed a news story about diesel particulate filters, and how a failing one could land you with a £1500 repair bill that isn’t covered by any...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Chris-Chilton-Blog/Are-diesel-particulate-filters-more-trouble-than-theyre-worth/Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:50:00 GMTBlogsWhen my first child was all set for the big push back in August 2008, the due-date happily coincided with a long-term loan of a Volkswagen California – we had one in the office for months, so I knew it...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/An-unconventional-test-of-the-VW-California/Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMTBlogsIt’s good to know that in this age of focus group blandness, of motor industry magnolia, of characterless capability, there are still some compelling ‘crazy’ cars. These are machines born from conviction, not committee. The Subaru Impreza STI and Mitsubishi...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-the-never-ending-appeal-of-crazy-cars/Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:30:00 GMTBlogsYou might be more used to sitting on porcelain in the smallest room in the house and wrapping yourself in a cashmere scarf - but these expensive materials are making their way into the car world. A couple of recent...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Expensive-lavish-materials-the-new-luxury-touch/Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:34:00 GMTBlogsIt seemed like an innocuous enough challenge. Volvo asked us to drive to Austria on one tank of fuel in its new Volvo S60 DRIVe. That's 840 miles, from Marlow, Buckinghamshire to Mayrhofen in Austria for the seventh annual Snowbombing festival. Game on!...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/Volvo-S60-DRIVe-Snowbombing-road-trip/Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:50:00 GMTBlogsNews today that Britain's new cars' CO2 averages are tumbling got me thinking. Even in the first half of 2010, carbon emissions of the typical new car rolling out of showrooms have fallen 5% year-on-year to 145.2g/km. Which is good...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/The-great-CO2-debate-and-a-packet-of-crisps/Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:08:00 GMTBlogsWith the current July 2010 issue of CAR Magazine dedicated to the 100th anniversary Alfa Romeo (ALFA, if we’re being pedantic), and with a personal holiday planned around the Italian lakes, it seemed like a shame to opt for a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/A-week-in-Italy-with-an-Alfa-Romeo-Giulietta/Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMTBlogsOne of the real privileges of writing about cars for a living is getting to take important new models out onto the public road, often long before the first customer cars are delivered, and letting fellow car-nuts see them up...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/The-UK-reaction-to-the-new-Jaguar-XJ-by-Ben-Oliver/Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:06:00 GMTBlogsNoticed something interesting about the psychedelic disguise on the new compact Range Rover LRX scooped by CAR today: look up close and you'll see it's a map of the world.There was me thinking they'd just covered the junior Rangie in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/The-Range-Rover-LRX-and-that-world-map-disguise/Tue, 18 May 2010 14:06:00 GMTBlogsI’m sure I’m not the only car-geek who paid more attention to the cars than the politicians when watching the rolling news coverage of yesterday’s momentous handover of power. For most of the day, David Cameron was chased by the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/New-prime-ministers-and-the-changing-of-the-cars/Wed, 12 May 2010 15:09:00 GMTBlogsDrove the new Jaguar XJ for the first time the other day: a 3.0-litre diesel long-wheelbase model that struck a chord with me for two reasons. One, I'd written the preview piece for CAR Magazine and had followed its genesis...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Jaguar-XJ-and-speccing-your-car-at-the-App-store/Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:43:00 GMTBlogsJust driven the new BMW 5-series and a very good car it is too, if curiously unexceptional. The outgoing Five was stand-out in so many ways, from idiosyncratic style to its hunkered-down handling. The new one looks cleaner, goes better,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-BMW-may-longer-be-The-Ultimate-Driving-Machine/Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:32:00 GMTBlogsSnare a copy of April’s CAR and you’ll be able to read contributing editor Jethro Bovingdon’s take on the Peugeot RCZ, which was pitted against the VW Scirocco and the Audi TT, on a climatically bipolar triple test near Peugeot’s...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Is-the-new-Peugeot-RCZ-Pugnacious-enough/Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:36:00 GMTBlogsCar journalists often discuss the greatest cars ever made, the best cars ever made, the fastest, the best looking, the most powerful. When I say ‘discuss’ I mean they disagree and come to blows, which begs the next question, ‘Which...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Mark-Walton/The-worlds-most-versatile-car-by-Mark-Walton/Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:46:00 GMTBlogsOne of the biggest disappointments of the year: just driven the new Subaru Impreza diesel over the weekend, one of the cars of the year I’d been most eagerly looking forward to driving. And the gap between my expectation and...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/How-a-Subaru-proved-the-biggest-disappointment-of-the-year-/Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:51:00 GMTBlogsThe chairman of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, once told me – over a Starbucks cappuccino and bran muffin in his office in Detroit – that his worst managerial mistake was to kill the EV1 electric car. ‘It didn’t affect profitability...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-the-American-car-market-should-adopt-diesel-By-Gavin-Green-160109/Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:48:00 GMTBlogsIn the new February 2009 issue of CAR Magazine we've lined up the new Toyota Avensis against the Insignia, Mondeo, C5, Superb, Accord, Passat, Laguna and 6. It's the first UK meeting of these repmobile titans as we nabbed the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/Make-your-own-Seat-Exeo/Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:12:00 GMTBlogsLast week I did something I never thought I would do. I purchased a Volvo. A dirty great big V70 estate – a D5 SE if you like that sort of detail. Our little Skoda Fabia estate was battling to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Whitworth/Why-i-bought-a-volvo-estate/Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:56:00 GMTBlogs