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First Drive review: SsangYong Tivoli (2015)


It’s true cars have improved a lot, but a cheap Korean crossover? Well, Giles Smith is pushed to find a thing wrong with this one
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The Clarkson review: Range Rover Sport SVR (2015)


As my parents dropped me off at boarding school my dad reached into his pocket and presented me with a small box
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First Drive review: Volkswagen Sharan (2015)


For drivers of a certain age, owning a vehicle that can comfortably transport six hyperactive children high on sweets and cakes back home from a birthday...
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The Clarkson review: Seat Leon X-Perience (2015)


THIS is one of the most important reviews I have yet written. Because since I started testing cars 31 years ago I have never once driven a Seat...
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First Drive review: DS 5 (2015)


Paris in the springtime and in the Jardin des Tuileries, in the biggest marquee this side of Kim Kardashian’s wedding
2015 VW Passat review by Jeremy Clarkson

The Clarkson review: Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI SE Business...


Motor industry press officers are no fools. If a journalist asks to borrow a car to test, he is sent an all-singing, all-dancing
James May Ferrari 488 GTB review

James May drives the 2015 Ferrari 488 GTB


The new £184,000 488 GTB is a clever and ruggedly handsome beast. And that could be annoying for James May, who has just ordered its £208,000 predecessor.
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Kia Rio Mk3 review (2011-on)


Britain needs the Kia Rio. Not because we’re desperately short of decent superminis – in fact we have a surfeit – and not because the Rio is...
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First Drive review: Seat Ibiza (2015)


The launch of this revised Seat Ibiza is not about a stylish new look or a radical line-up of engines that will go easy on the planet and a driver's...
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First Drive review: Renault Kadjar (2015)


The Kadjar purports to be a socially acceptable crossover but is so beefy and capable it is more like a road-monstering SUV.
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First Drive review: Honda Civic Type R (2015)


If the simplest ideas are often the best ones, it’s little wonder the hot hatchback has caught on. Take the most popular type of car – the hatchback...
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The Clarkson review: Alfa Romeo 4C coupé (2015)


A number of years ago a writer on the hysterically earnest motoring magazine Autocar said in a review of some supercar