Infiniti EX37 (2008) review Price: £35,000 27 October 2008 by Adam Towler It’s taken four years of planning to realise this Infiniti EX37 launch. Nissan’s Infiniti 'premium brand' is about to make a bridgehead into Europe, and it’s this EX37 SUV-lite experience that it... 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 ...
Hyundai Genesis Coupe (2008) CAR review and video Price: £25,000 24 October 2008 by Ben Barry CAR Online has just driven Hyundai’s new rear-wheel drive Genesis Coupe. And it’s good. Very, very good. Hyundai hasn’t yet committed to bringing the car to the UK, but our first drive confirms that... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi S4 saloon (2008) review Price: £36,000 21 October 2008 by Georg Kacher The new Audi S4 is either Ingolstadt’s idea of a bad joke or a stroke of genius. If you follow the former line of thought, then you’re from the camp that thinks the economy has jumped off a cliff,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 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 ...
Ferrari California (2008): real-time CAR review blog Price: £143,000 15 October 2008 by Chris Chilton Bit of a CAR Online experiment here. We're driving the new Ferrari California today and attempting what, as far as we're aware, is the first real-time review of the Cali on the internet. Road test... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.4 (2008) review Price: £14,499 29 September 2008 by James Foxall Twenty years ago you probably didn’t imagine the Suzuki Vitara to be a ground breaker. But it was. The little 4x4 was the first small Sports Utility Vehicle and as such created a sector in the market... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Porsche 911 Targa 4S (2008) review Price: £80,270 25 September 2008 by Adam Towler Porsche’s 'Targa' moniker has been applied to open-air 911s since the late 1960s, and now with the latest version complementing the recently launched coupe and convertible models, it completes... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
BMW X6 XDrive 35i (2008) review Price: £43,160 24 September 2008 by Greg Fountain Announcing the launch of the world’s first sports activity coupe is rather like announcing the world’s first six-decker sponge cake – probably quite tasty, but hardly a Jaffa cake moment, and way too... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Kia Ceed 1.4 ISG (2008) review Price: £11,500 24 September 2008 by Jesse Crosse Kia will go electric, in a small way at least, when it introduces the Ceed with a stop-start system early in 2009. The Ceed ISG (Idle Stop and Go) will be the first of a series of new, green,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Lotus 2-Eleven s/c (2008) review Price: £41,180 24 September 2008 by Nick Trott The 2-Eleven is the most track-focused road car Lotus has ever built. And we’ve emphasised the ‘road car’ bit because despite the wings and splitters and launch control and racing stripes the Lotus... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Mercedes C63 AMG Performance Package (2008) review Price: £54,645 24 September 2008 by Ben Barry The Mercedes C63 AMG Performance Package costs £3210 and promises to turn the four-door saloon from Affalterbach into an M3 beater. For your money you get uprated brakes and suspension, a limited slip... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Gumpert Apollo S (2008) review Price: £275,000 24 September 2008 by Mark Walton Everything you need to know about the Gumpert Apollo is there from the outset, worn on the sleeve and clearly visible the first time you look at it. Or should that be ‘stare’ at it. Compact, brutish,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Ariel Atom3 300 (2008) review Price: £35,888 24 September 2008 by Mark Walton When it comes to journalists writing road tests, there are so many different uses for the word ‘scary’ I thought I’d better clarify. So, there’s the track car that accelerates so fast it makes you... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi RS6 saloon (2008) review Price: £76,160 22 September 2008 by Glen Waddington It’s a car of broad abilities, the Audi A6. An eco-friendly 2.0TDIe tax-buster at one end, some slick and savvy V6s in the middle – then this utterly bonkers RS6 road-burner at the other end of the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi A6 3.0T facelift (2008) review Price: £37,440 19 September 2008 by Glen Waddington With an almost invisible change here and there, the Audi A6 joins the Golf and 3-series as the latest barely perceptible facelifts of best-selling German cars. Okay, I know, the Golf shares only roof... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi Q7 V12 TDI (2008) review Price: £96,295 18 September 2008 by Glen Waddington There are big numbers at play with the Audi Q7 V12 TDI. Try these for size: 2635kg (big SUV), V12 (the first 12-cylinder diesel engine yet fitted to a passenger vehicle), 493bhp (it’s the most... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Vauxhall VXR8 facelift (2008) review Price: £35,695 17 September 2008 by Ben Barry It might have only been launched a year ago, but the Australian-built Vauxhall VXR8 has already been upgraded. The big news is the new LS3 engine. Seems the 6.0-litre V8 LS2 was a bit weedy at 411bhp... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
BMW 335i facelift (2008) review Price: £33,660 16 September 2008 by Glen Waddington If you’ve already read what we’ve written about the revised 330d, you’ll know about the changes BMW has wrought on the 3-series. It looks a bit sharper, has a bit more presence, some new tech –... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Cadillac CTS-V (2008) review Price: £47,000 12 September 2008 by Georg Kacher The Cadillac CTS-V is a super saloon to make BMW M5 drivers feel inadequate. And with a huge 6.2-litre V8 it has the cubic capacity and cylinder count to match the Mercedes AMG trio of C, E and CLS... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Corvette ZR1 (2008) review Price: £108,000 11 September 2008 by Georg Kacher The new Corvette ZR1 is the world’s quickest and rawest sports car – only mad supercars and insane track cars can best it. This is a bright yellow bullet, with 638bhp (making it the most powerful... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...