Subaru B9 Tribeca 3.0 (2006) review Price: £29,097 15 December 2006 by Chris Chilton Is this the ugliest car on sale? I like a man who gets straight to the point. The Tribeca’s certainly an acquired taste - it’s difficult to look at either end without wanting to vomit. But at least... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Porsche 911 GT3 UK (2006) review Price: £80,660 13 December 2006 by Georg Kacher What's the GT3 for, and hasn't it been around for ages? We first drove the car in our dark pre-website days but thought we'd revisit it now that the first few have rolled off the boat onto UK soil. As... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi TT Roadster 2.0T (2006) review Price: £26,940 11 December 2006 by Ben Oliver Why do I want to read about a roadster in this weather? Look out of your window. Yes, you’ll see stormclouds, flooded roads and possibly a tornado, but you’ll probably also see an Audi TT roadster. In... 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 ...
Honda Legend 3.5i (2006) review Price: £36,352 08 December 2006 by Chris Chilton Legend? Quite an appropriate name. I don’t think I’ve seen one in the metal since 1989 In fact it was only a couple of years ago that the last Legend disappeared from Car’s GBU although truth be told... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 2 out of 5 Read more ...
Morgan AeroMax (2006) review 07 December 2006 by James Foxall AeroMax? Looks like an Aero 8 with a roof to me Yup, that’s exactly what it is. They’ve used their traditional ash frame for the bodywork and extended it to include the roof. The craftsmanship inside... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Renaultsport Megane 230 F1 Team R26 (2006) review Price: £19,860 04 December 2006 by CJ Hubbard Oh my. Someone’s been busy with the stickers. Hmmm. They are a little less than subtle, aren’t they? But this new Renault Megane is a little more than just a go-faster decal job. Celebrating the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Kia Ceed 1.6 S (2006) review Price: £11,545 30 November 2006 by Richard Aucock What's this: a Korean Focus rival with a grammar-busting name? Absolutely. This is the car Kia calls the Cee'd, with a rogue apostrophe to make punctuation pedant Lynne Truss – and us – blow a fuse. 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 ...
Daihatsu Terios (2006) review Price: £14,295 27 November 2006 by Chris Chilton You're a bit slow off the mark aren't you? This thing's been on sale for months. Yes, well, we've put off driving it for as long as humanly possible. Memories of the old car you see; some of us are... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 4 out of 5 2 out of 5 Read more ...
Volvo XC90 SE Sport 3.2 (2006) review Price: £38,278 24 November 2006 by Chris Chilton Looks like Volvo’s succumbed and added some attitude to the XC90 That’s right, this new pumped up SE Sport is clearly aimed at people who might have found the XC90 a bit too reserved and instead... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 2 out of 5 2 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Holden Commodore SS-V (2006) review 23 November 2006 by Ben Whitworth Strewth cobber, that’s a ripper car… err… she’s a beaut, mate… Yes, well spotted there. this is an Australian car. It’s the SS-V, the performance flagship version of Holden’s spanking new VE Commodore... 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 ...
Subaru Impreza 1.5R (2006) review Price: £12,495 22 November 2006 by Chris Chilton What do you mean 1.5? Is that the boost level measured in bars? Or the time it takes to get to 60mph? Er, not quite. It refers to the size of the engine in good old-fashioned cubic centimetres. There... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Skoda Octavia vRS TDi (2006) review Price: £18,570 21 November 2006 by Chris Chilton A diesel? I thought the vRS was Skoda's GTi. It is. The vRS comes with either the 197bhp FSi turbo 2.0-litre from the Golf GTi or now, with this 2.0 common-rail diesel. It’s the newer, more powerful... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Volvo C30 D5 (2006) review Price: £22,295 20 November 2006 by Chris Chilton It’s been T5 this and T5 that, I’m pleased to see you’re finally going to tell me about the C30 that I can afford to fuel. We aim to please. Yes, the blown five-cylinder T5 sounds great and certainly... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 2 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Seat Leon Cupra (2006) review Price: £19,695 09 November 2006 by Kyle Fortune Ah, a sporty Leon. That'll be the FR, yes? No. Despite looking identical to the 197bhp Leon FR hot hatch, this is the red hot, 237bhp new Cupra. Not that you'd really know from the pictures. If it... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Mini Cooper (2006) review Price: £13,025 06 November 2006 by Gavin Green A new Mini Cooper? Doesn't look that new… It really is a new car – every body panel has changed, new engine and new interior too – although it looks familiar and CAR Online has already tested the new... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Fiat Panda 100HP (2006) review Price: £10,250 02 November 2006 by Phil Ward What’s this, surely not a hot Panda? Well it’s been a while since 100bhp constituted ‘hot’ but that’s essentially what you’re looking at. It’s been a while coming: when the upright Seicento... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Audi TT 2.0T S-Tronic (2006) review Price: £24,900 31 October 2006 by Ben Barry Haven’t you driven the TT? We’ve already tested the 3.2-litre four-wheel drive Audi TT, but this car’s the cut-price sibling: a front-wheel drive, 2.0-litre turbo which, at £24,625, undercuts its big... 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 ...
Volvo XC30 concept CAR (2006) review 30 October 2006 by Jed Maxwell We test the junior XC concept from Sweden Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Caterham Roadsport Racer (2006) review 25 October 2006 by Andrew Franklin Caterham Roadsport series: the lowdown Fancy being a racing driver? By signing up to one of Caterham's racing series, you can. And that's exactly what we did. CAR contributor Jonny Smith and I signed... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 0 out of 5 0 out of 5 0 out of 5 0 out of 5 0 out of 5 Read more ...
BMW 335d Coupe (2006) review Price: £33,610 19 October 2006 by Ben Oliver 286bhp, 427lb ft and 1570kgs – quite fast, presumably? Oh yes. BMW points out that the new 335d is the most powerful diesel engine it has sold in the UK and the most powerful six-pot diesel in the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...