Buying cars

WHEN the original Kia Sportage arrived 30 years ago, the idea of it being a best seller would have been laughable, but that’s exactly what Kia has achieved with the recently replaced fifth-generation

THINK LEXUS MAKES only big, expensive cars? Well, think again, because the LBX is a small SUV with a comparatively small price tag. Yet despite this, there’s nothing cut price about how it looks, feel

THE Juke launched the supermini-sized SUV segment in 2010, and it didn’t take long for a wide array of rivals to pop up. Indeed, these mini-SUVs soon became some of the most popular cars on the road,

THE mid-size premium SUV class has undergone pretty drastic change over the last few years. The Lexus NX and Mercedes GLC arrived within a few months of one another, while Audi’s multi-pronged, multi-

WHEN the original Toyota RAV4 arrived in 1994, its maker reckoned that it had created a new type of vehicle: an affordable and compact crossover that was easy to drive, practical and cut a dash too. T

BMW has been building X3s for more than 20 years now, and the constant refinement of the formula to arrive at the fourth-generation model (codenamed G45) that we are testing here is evident in a lot o