When it comes to cars on a budget there simply isn’t enough of them in the marketplace these days. £10k will get you an entry-level hatchback in most cases, but if you care to take a look at Renault’s sister brand Dacia, you’ll be surprised at how far your budget will stretch. In that regard, […]
Car Reviews, Crossover, Hatchback
What happens when you strip out any character or soul from a once interesting vehicle? The new 2018 Citroen C4 Cactus, that’s what. The C4 Cactus was introduced back in 2014, 4 years on and the C4 hatchback has been culled from production. Filling its place is the Cactus. Starting at £17,265 you’ll want to […]
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When you think of the words Mitsubishi and Eclipse, you’ll probably think of a gorgeously curvy two door coupe form the 90’s – that we never got in the UK. Now the name is followed by the word ‘Cross’…which means it’s a crossover. Starting at £21,275 I tested a ‘4’ petrol manual, which would set […]
Nissan were the crossover pioneers, creating the segment from thin air way back in 2006. 2014 saw the second incarnation of the Qashqai and just three years later a bold facelift has helped keep it up to date. To see what those updates were like, we took a dCi 110 in range topping Tekna trim […]
Oh, another crossover? Yay. SEAT’s new Arona is a B Segment crossover, like the Nissan Juke, the Citroen C3 Aircross, Kia Stonic, Hyundai Kona, VW T-Roc, Audi Q2, Mazda CX-3, Toyota C-HR, Peugeot 2008…you get the picture. Starting at £16,555 our test car was in ‘SE Technology’ trim – read that as ‘Basic’ but with […]
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Another week passes, another crossover is launched. This time it’s the turn of Skoda, a brand that have been somewhat late to the game. Especially when you consider the market first started to gain traction in around 2009, has the waiting game paid off? We took a Karoq 4×4 through the depths of Lincolnshire to […]
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Three small, ‘B Segment’ SUV’s launched in one week this month. One of them was this, the all new Citroen C3 Aircross. It aims to take over where the old, rather dated C3 Picasso left off. MPV’s are strictly out, SUV’s and crossovers are in. The market dictates what cars end up on our roads […]
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It seems the onslaught of crossovers continues. Hyundai are the latest to join the fray, looking to distance themselves from their sister brands ‘Stonic’ and carve out their own niche in this ever crowding segment. Competitors include the all new Citroen C3 Aircross, the ageing Nissan Juke and the epically handling Mazda CX3. But how […]
We’ve waited a while for the 5008, Europe got it roughly six months ago, but finally our time has come. Peugeot have amassed 200,000 sales of the all new 3008 in roughly a year, hot off its heals the bigger 5008 is set to be a winner. Prices start from £24,495 for the entry level […]
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Every now and then there’s one car that ultimately saves a brand, in Volvo’s case the last generation XC60 can probably be heralded as that. It brought Volvo back to the masses and continued to sell amazingly well right up until it was culled earlier on this year. So the all new XC60 has big […]
With crossovers still taking the marketplace by storm, it was only a matter of time until they started downsizing and entering new segments. Audi have got into the game early with the Q2, it’s a true mini crossover of the hatchback variety. Our dinky Q2 was in Sport trim with a 1.4 TFSI engine. […]
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