Buyer’s guide:abart h 595 and 695

F ast versions of modern Minis are the sort of cars about which reviewers can’t seem to make up their minds. They’ve won group tests on about as many occasions as they’ve gone down in flames. Even thi

Even as a pupil at grammar school, I always thought older cars were somehow cooler than new ones, So I counted myself lucky when I later inherited a Volkswagen 1500 from my mum’s aunt, to become my fi

GROWING OLDER, I have found, is a deplorable process. Faculties diminish, one’s abilities reduce and, eventually, enthusiasm wanes. There is, in short, little to be said for it. However, last year I f

The 205 was a huge success for Peugeot, selling more than five million examples. Stylish, compact and spacious inside thanks to space-saving rear suspension, its sales were boosted by competition succ

Lots of small changes bring out the inner Essex of Skoda’s supermini

Unbelievably, it has been a decade since Alfa Romeo revived the Giulia name for its achingly pretty junior executive saloon, the first of just two models to use the billion-dollar Giorgio platform tha