By CJ Hubbard Head of the Bauer Automotive Hub, road tester, organiser, extremely variable average wheel count View all Lexus Reviews ► Smallest Lexus SUV► Efficient hybrid power► Comfort over sportiness Premium-yet-compact SUV crossovers speak to a lot of buyers these days, so has the Lexus UX got what it takes to compete in a crowded marketplace? Smallest of the Japanese …
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View all BMW 5-Series Reviews A year in our BMW 530d Touring – 20 January 2012 Are we road testers too easily entranced by big luxury diesel estates? Over a misspent youth poring over car magazines, I remember reading of hacks falling for the charms of said vehicles in the 1980s. One colleague on another mag actually bid for his …
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By CAR’s road test team ► Hybrid Lexus hatch no longer on sale ► Brilliant build quality (used cars still look good) ► But disappointing in nearly every other way Lexus was years ahead of the curve when it launched the CT 200h in 2011. No other premium carmaker was championing hybrid hatchbacks then, although it’s becoming the norm now. The …
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View all BMW 5-Series Reviews Month 11 running a BMW M5: we say farwell to out longterm M5 After 11 months and 16,000 miles – 11,000 of them in CAR’s hands – our M5 has finally departed. It arrived with the spoils of victory from a Jag XFR/Merc CLS 63/Panamera V8 group test and bowed out after a five-week sojourn …
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View all Nissan Qashqai Reviews ► Nissan Qashqai long-term test review► We live with the Qashqai day-in, day-out► This month, a rare glimpse of its original colour Month 7: the end of our Nissan Qashqai long-term test Perspective – as, with the aid of a 1:32 scale Friesian cow, Father Ted once so brilliantly failed to demonstrate to Dougal – …
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