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First Drive Review: 2016 Abarth 695 Biposto Record

First Drive review: 2016 Abarth 695 Biposto Record

At some point we’re all going to have to gasp in unison at the price of this car, but perhaps we’ll do that at the end of the article ...
Published 09 August 2016
First Drive review: 2016 BMW 3 series Gran Turismo

First Drive review: 2016 BMW 3-series Gran Turismo...

Three years ago, when the Grand Touring version of the 3 Series was launched, sceptics wondered at the sense in shoehorning a hatchback into the small...
Published 03 August 2016
2016 Tesla Model X electric SUV review

First Drive review: 2016 Tesla Model X P90D

Reinventing the door has doomed many a promising car concept. The sliding doors on Peugeot’s 1007, for example, so compromised the car’s design...
Published 02 August 2016
Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 2016 review by The Sunday Times Driving

First Drive review: 2016 Porsche 911 Turbo cabriolet

With the car's engine parts, exhaust and brakes still clicking with heat exhaustion but a pulse rate that's decidedly ice-cool, you may wonder...
Published 27 July 2016
Mini Convertible John Cooper Works review by Giles Smith for Sunday Times Driving

First Drive review: 2016 Mini John Cooper Works convertible

These pages have already hymned the latest generation of the popular Mini convertible, celebrating its admittedly quite pricy comforts...
Published 25 July 2016
First Drive review: 2016 Renault Clio 1.5 dCi 110 and 1.2 TCe 120

2016 Renault Clio review

It is a picture postcard scene from France. The sun is rising over the rolling wine estates of Bordeaux. Farmers are tending their vines. Queues are...
Published 15 July 2016
First Drive review: 2016 Jaguar F-type SVR

First Drive review: 2016 Jaguar F-type SVR

Jaguar’s F-type was given the tough gig of following the E-type, the 1960s two-seater generally regarded as a timeless classic...
Published 12 July 2016
Hyundai Ioniq hybrid first drive review by The Sunday Times Driving

First Drive review: Hyundai Ioniq hybrid

If you can hear a faint whining and whistling in the background, don’t start Googling tinnitus and resist the urge to waggle your fingers in your...
Published 05 July 2016
First Drive review: 2016 Volvo V90 estate

First Drive review: Volvo V90

How do you know you’re getting old? Going upstairs and then not remembering why you did? Or going upstairs in the fully conscious knowledge that...
Published 29 June 2016
First Drive review: Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2

First Drive review: Lamborghini Huracán LP 580-2

Few sports cars have divided opinion quite like the Lamborghini Huracán. Take the styling. Some say it looks a million dollars, others, like Jeremy...
Published 28 June 2016
Ford Fiesta ST200 review

First Drive review: 2016 Ford Fiesta ST200

It wasn't that long ago that hot hatches were rare beasts. Today, we can barely cross the road without being mowed down by one. Well, not quite, but...
Published 23 June 2016
First Drive review: 2016 Audi A3 Sportback

First Drive review: 2016 Audi A3 Sportback

For 20 years the Audi A3 has been offering the executive pleasures associated with the brand — including quiet but unignorable status enhancement...
Published 13 June 2016