Wifi win: a JLR success
Wifi is an essential tool of the modern motoring journalist and my frustrations with hotels’ profiteering here are well documented. Solution? The sort of excellent advance thinking demonstrated by...
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2013 Mazda6: inspired by the Citroen XM
The new Mazda6 is a cleverly-engineered car whose intelligence even stretches to the load bay of the pretty wagon. Open the bootlid and the neat tonneau cover smartly lifts up with it, instead of...
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Steering feel twin test: Porsche 991 911 v Ford Mondeo
The Ford Mondeo has better steering feel than the Porsche 991 911 – could it really be so? Well, there I was, circling Millbrook’s Hill Route during SMMT Test Day back in May last year, thinking just...
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Range Rover Sport: the washer bottle reveals its roots
The new Range Rover Sport is, on paper, a fine example of smart work from Land Rover, something that’s becoming a trend with this model. After all, the original was a production version of the 2004...
View Article7 lessons Jaguar should learn from the X-Type
The baby Jaguar has been coming for years. Now, it seems it might actually be coming after all, after years of Britain’s German-challenging premium hopeful lacking such a vital BMW 3 Series rival....
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ETA: why in Germany it is dynamic
ETA racing made the headlines in the UK a few months ago. There was a spate of crashes blamed on people trying to beat the sat nav’s estimated time of arrival (ETA). They should have come to Germany....
View ArticleMercedes-Benz reinvents the fuel gauge
BAN THE ELECTRONIC FUEL GAUGE NOW. A campaign I started in 2011 but which surprisingly has failed to take off. Today, ever-more cars are replacing an accurate, easily assimilable analogue dial with a...
View ArticleThe day I met David Gandy in a Jaguar
Hi, I’m David. What a nice chap, I thought. Very sharp suit he was sporting, too. I wished I’d worn my shirt with cufflinks. Nevermind. I didn’t know David but soon got chatting. Turns out he’s a bit...
View ArticleWhy the Jaguar F-type windscreen washer bottle is so smart
The windscreen washer bottle department within JLR is bringing some impressive work to market at the moment. We’ve already seen the extra-large washer bottle option on the Range Rover Sport: just the...
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New MINI launch code Easter Egg
The all-new 2014 MINI has been revealed today – and here’s one detail you may not have spotted: the registration numbers. OX4 6NL? SN3 4PE? What’s that all about? Well, rather brilliantly, they relate...
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