If you’re in the market for a small family car, your main driving is in city traffic and you’re looking to be more environmentally friendly this year then the Toyota Auris HSD may be the car for you. The Auris hybrid is a beautifully styled, neat looking little car with a distinct futuristic feel...
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The new Toyota Avensis is a wonderful car to drive. I was impressed by its agility, its lovely, smooth drive and its handling when I took it out on the Dublin Mountains. It’s an elegant looking car, which is very spacious both back and front and also has a massive boot, with a hatch...
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If you’re new to the Jeep brand one of the first things you’ll be asking yourself as you slip into the luxurious heated leather driver’s seat of the Grand Cherokee is ‘how the hell do I turn on the wipers’’, even more so if it happens to be raining when you do so. Indicators...
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The Citroën DS4 is a thing of angular beauty – from its snazzy looking and unusually shaped rear doors (and hidden door handles) to its front lights. The DS4 also makes great graphic use of its badge at the rear. Inside, the fabric and leather combo seats are nice and firm, with adjustable back...
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If you’ve got your heart set on something that has the look of an estate but the feel of a 4×4 then you could do worse than check out the Skoda Octavia Scout 4×4. While the Yeti might be the best known of Skoda’s 4×4 offerings, it’s joined in the line up by the...
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Fiat does like playing quirky little mind games with its drivers. In the Fiat 500 it was ‘how the hell do I open the windows’ after it moved the button to the centre console and in its bigger brother, the Punto Evo GP, the speedometer and Rev Counter have been transposed (I’m thinking of...
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It’s not every car that says goodbye to you when you turn off its engine but the Mitsubishi Outlander does just that with its quirky ‘See You’ on the display panel. A little quirk like that is not really what you’d expect from a big authorative looking vehicle like the Outlander but it’s a...
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There was a time when the two words ‘Mondeo man’ when used together was a term of derision, but let me tell you the new Ford Mondeo is nothing to scoff at. It’s a real classy looking car, long and sleek with a hint of muscle on the outside, with eye catching front LED...
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