Tata Nano (2008) CAR review: first riding impressions Price: £1,700 08 December 2008 by Ben Oliver CAR is first to ride in the world's cheapest new car Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
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... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Suzuki Alto (2008) review Price: £7,000 20 October 2008 by Ben Oliver Less than a month after the new Suzuki Alto and Nissan Pixo twins were unveiled at the 2008 Paris motor show, CAR Online has been to Delhi to drive the Suzuki version. Why Delhi? This is where they’ll... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Toyota iQ 1.0 (2009) review Price: £10,000 02 September 2008 by Phil McNamara The new Toyota iQ is a landmark car: the world's soon-to-be-biggest car maker has gone and made the world's smallest four-seater. You see, the iQ packs two rows of pews into a tiny slip of a... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Smart Fortwo MHD micro-hybrid (2008) review Price: £7,295 16 July 2008 by Andrew Noakes The Smart Fortwo MHD has been available in Europe since October 2007. MHD is Smart-talk for a stop/start system and stands for Micro Hybrid Drive. UK versions of the 61bhp and 71bhp Smart will have... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
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... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 1 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Smart Fortwo ED (2008) electric review 19 June 2008 by Andrew Noakes Smart isn’t trialling 100 electric Fortwos in the UK, instead of Germany, because our petrol prices are higher, or because our congestion charges more swingeing. In fact, it's largely because the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Nice Mega City (2008) review Price: £11,999 18 June 2008 by Nick Gibbs Stroll through central London on a weekday and you’d be forgiven for thinking the green car revolution had arrived. In the hour I spent driving the revamped Nice Mega City, I counted 21 electric... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
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... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Brabus Ultimate 112 (2008) driven review Price: £36,847 14 April 2008 by Dan Trent You’ll know Brabus as a manufacturer of bonkers horsepower mega Mercs. But the tuner is also the official in-house performance partner for Smart and has been turning its expertise to the diminutive... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Ford Ka and SportKa (2008) review Price: £7,095 19 March 2008 by Colin Overland The Ford Ka was one of the cars that started Ford's renaissance. So the Blue Oval's business problems shouldn’t distract attention from the fact that most of Ford's current European product line-up is... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Think City (2008) CAR Review Price: £14,000 12 March 2008 by Nick Gibbs The Think City goes on sale at the end of 2008 with the ability to drive over 100 miles on one charge and hit 60mph. It also looks, steers and, so we’re promised, crashes like a modern city car. If it... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Hyundai i10 (2008) review Price: £6,499 18 January 2008 by John Sootheran We’re not expecting to see Hyundai’s i10 in the UK for a month or two, so CAR Online went all the way to India to test drive Korea’s latest progeny. ‘Best place for them,’ I hear many of you cry – but... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Kia Picanto 1.1 Ice (2007) review Price: £6,995 04 December 2007 by the CAR road test team Hmm. It looks a bit better than the old car It does, doesn’t it? Out goes the old cat’s arse grille, to be replaced with something altogether neater. There are new bumpers front and rear, a new... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 Read more ...
Microcar MC1 (2007) review Price: £6,495 11 October 2007 by Jonny Smith What's this, another weird electricmobile? Weird yes, electric no. It's a petrol-fed, twin-cylinder featherweight city car that claims 65mpg. On paper the vital stats of the Microcar seem to make... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 2 out of 5 1 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 1 out of 5 Read more ...
Mitsubishi i-EV (2007) review 05 October 2007 by Ben Oliver Just another pie-in-the-sky electric concept car, right? Wrong, for two reasons. Firstly, we’ve driven it: CAR Online is the first to get behind the wheel of the Mitsubishi i-EV. Second, Mitsubishi... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Mitsubishi i-EV (2007) electric review Price: £15,000 05 October 2007 by Ben Oliver Just another pie-in-the-sky electric concept car, right? Wrong, for two reasons. Firstly, we’ve driven it: CAR Online is the first to get behind the wheel of the Mitsubishi i-EV. Second, Mitsubishi... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Smart Fortwo Brabus (2007) review Price: £13,520 17 September 2007 by Richard Aucock The world’s fastest rollerskate is back, then? From spring 2008, yes. And those mentalists at Brabus have gone and made it even faster, too – by giving it 30 per cent more power. 30 per cent! Now it... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Renault Twingo GT 1.2 TCE (2007) review Price: £9,995 08 August 2007 by Ged Maxwell A small car from Renault... you mean smaller than the Clio and Modus? Yes, that'll be the Twingo. Don't let the chunky looks fool you – this is very definitely pitched below the Clio in size and... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Fiat 500 1.4 (2007) review Price: £9,300 18 July 2007 by Gavin Green So then, has the Fiat 500 been worth the wait? Absolutely. Our first experience with the Fiat 500 has left us desperately wanting a few more miles behind the wheel. Fiat has always been at its best... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...