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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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 | 
msn.com | Andrew English
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
The transformation of a 4x4 workhorse into a breathtakingly accomplished - and reassuringly expensive - desert racer almost defies beliefI wasn't looking forward to driving the Land Rover Defender Octa for many of the reasons you're probably thinking of right now. Add bellowing torque to a clumpy 4x4, throw in wide tyres and figure-hugging seats then watch as the filthy rich form a disorderly queue. What might be the point of this £160,800, 626bhp, 155mph, 2.5-tonne car?
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew English
Fast, efficient, with a 492-mile range and the potential to add 202 miles in 10 minutes, the CLA may well convince you to go electricThe CLA was traduced as "the Mercedes for poor people" at its launch in 2013, but this new fourth-generation model is the vanguard of the company's electric vehicle (EV) push. Such is the pace of change at the company, which previously would only introduce cutting-edge technology in its S-Class flagship saloon, which would then trickle down to lesser models.
