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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
If you need a small four-wheel drive SUV with genuine ability in the rough - and a badge to back it up - then look no furtherWith its rugged off-road demeanour including wheels shod with chunky mud and snow tyres, Jeep 's latest compact 4x4 looks fabulous. Dumpy, cute and ready for action all at the same time. But then you might say the same of the US 4x4 specialist's Renegade, yesterday's baby Jeep, which is still available as a hybrid and plug-in hybrid at higher prices.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
It really is a case of more for less thanks to intelligent design and attention to detail that families of all incomes will appreciateIt's past midday in the mountains behind Marseilles in the Bouche-du-Rhône department of France. I'm driving towards Aix-en-Provence and the screen is filled with the yellowish rocky landscape as the engine warbles gently under the bonnet. I'm looking forward to lunch, something well-cooked but simple, comforting and tasty. Ham, egg and chips, perhaps?
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
The central touchscreen is just as you'd find on the most modern cars, just not as good; it lags, doesn't always recognise the touch of a finger and the radio function has not worked for approximately half the time. Over-the-air updates revive its functions for a while, but disappear again within days.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
The original R4 was one of the most successful cars ever and a triumph of utility motoring. Can the same be said of this revival? Renault, the 126-year-old, partly French state-owned car maker, has changed direction in recent years. Once it was remorselessly future-faced, with advanced and controversial ideas of what cars should look like, typified by models such as the Dauphine, the 16, the Espace, Avantime and Vel Satis and of course the original Renault 5.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
Every new Morgan is usually better than the last, but can this six-figure Supersport really lure buyers from the seminal Porsche 911? Resembling a traditional Morgan which has driven through a rhododendron bush and had every single piece of exterior trim torn off, the new Supersport replaces the Plus Six and, at the same time, a step into the big time for the firm nestled into the eastern side of the Malvern Hills.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
The soft-top version of the British firm's sublime high-performance V8 gives you more of everythingIf the phrase "£175,000 starter Aston Martin" doesn't exactly conjure a picture of something parked outside the home for distressed gentlefolk, then think of a more well-heeled treat. The kind of car you might buy with a handsome inheritance, the maturation of a long-standing fund, perhaps, or even a bonus? Either way, this is where you start in the Aston Martin brochures these days.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
Not only is it the best-driving and most luxurious in its class, this high-class hybrid also provides towering yet unstressed performanceBentley aficionados know that the original Flying Spur of 1957 was a handsome, upright version of the gorgeous S1 Continental coupé, its name derived from the family crest of Arthur Talbot Johnstone, the managing director of coachbuilder HJ Mulliner. It wasn't quite the same with the second coming of the Flying Spur under Volkswagen ownership in 2005.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
Despite significant improvements on earlier Chinese BYD models, this is in danger of becoming just another battery-powered family SUV BYD Auto, the 22-year-old Chinese carmaker, is nothing if not remorseless. It built its first passenger car in 2005 and, in 2023, overtook Tesla as the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) maker and Volkswagen as China's best-selling car brand. Last year, it sold more than 4.7 million new vehicles.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
This small crossover gained a reputation for brilliant chassis dynamics in petrol form, so how will an extra 200kg of batteries affect it? So, here's your crib sheet for the latest version of the Ford Puma, the nippy 2019 Fiesta supermini-based five-door family crossover (not to be confused with the cheeky Fiesta-based coupé of the same name launched in 1997).
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2 months ago | 
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