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  • IFR Aspid Supersport (2008) review

    Price:  £90,000

    12 November 2008 by Dan Trent

    The IFR Aspid Supersport? Just where the hell did that thing land from? Well, Spain as it happens. Specifically just outside Barcelona and the twisted imagination of a gang of ex-rally engineers who...

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  • Mazda 6 2.2D Sport (2008) review

    11 November 2008 by Ben Pulman

    The new Mazda 6 diesel is bucking the current trend for downsizing. When every other manufacturer seems intent on reducing engine displacement through turbocharging, Mazda has replaced its 2.0-litre...

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  • BMW Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo Coupe (2008) review

    Price:  £34,540

    10 November 2008 by Ben Pulman

    The Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo Coupe is a 3-series BMW really should make. To create it Alpina, the Buchloe-based tuner, tweaker and BMW bedfellow takes a regular 3-series coupe. It then drops in the...

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  • Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series (2008) CAR review and video

    Price:  £250,000

    06 November 2008 by Ben Barry

    This is the Mercedes-Benz AMG SL65 Black Series, the star of CAR Magazine’s December 2008 cover. CAR was invited to an exclusive test drive of this outlandish machine on road and track at Mas du Clos,...

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  • Bentley Flying Spur Speed (2008) review

    Price:  £133,000

    06 November 2008 by Georg Kacher

    Bentley has given its monstrously quick but vaguely anonymous Flying Spur a mild facelift and introduced the aptly entitled Speed go-faster pack to further distance itself from top-end V12-powered...

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  • Seat Exeo (2009) review

    Price:  £17,000

    04 November 2008 by Julian Kirk

    Has the Large Hadron Collider finally done its thing? Have I entered a time warp and gone back in time seven years? The reason I ask is that I’m driving what purports to be a new car but is, in fact,...

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  • Renault Megane Coupe 2.0 TCe 180 (2008) review

    Price:  £18,145

    03 November 2008 by Anthony ffrench-Constant

    Though the front always struck me as a tad clunky and corporate, I’ve long admired the relentlessly shaken and gently stirring rump of this new Renault Megane’s predecessor. Trouble is, it seems that...

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    Mazda MX-5 2.0 (2009) review

    Price:  £18,000

    31 October 2008 by Ben Whitworth

    This is Mazda’s new 2009 MX-5 – and in a world exclusive, CAR has driven the facelifted MX-5 seven months ahead of its UK debut to bring you the first road test of what is still the world’s most...

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  • Vauxhall Insignia 2.8 V6 4×4 (2008) review

    Price:  £28,085

    30 October 2008 by Anthony ffrench-Constant

    Twenty minutes into a vigorous hoon in this 2.8-litre V6 powered, four-wheel drive flagship of the new Vauxhall Insignia range, all I could think of was pub grub. No, the launch proceedings food was...

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  • Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic (2008) review

    Price:  £165,500

    29 October 2008 by Ben Oliver

    Not even James Bond has driven the Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic yet. Quantum of Solace is just about to open but Daniel Craig must content himself with the standard manual DBS. We’ve already driven...

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  • Ford Ka Zetec (2008) review

    Price:  £9,495

    29 October 2008 by Chris Chilton

    We’re so accustomed to six-year model cycles that the 12 years it’s taken Ford to come up with the second generation Ka is scarcely believable. But the new Ka is here – and now CAR Online has finally...

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  • Mercedes ML320 CDI Sport facelift (2008) review

    Price:  £44,285

    28 October 2008 by Anthony ffrench-Constant

    Huntsville, Alabama; where the back of every single neck is a dead ringer for 'Volcanic Splash 4' from the Dulux colour chart, where family trees have only one branch (‘yew kin divorce me, but yawl...

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