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I’m containing my enthusiasm about the idea of a new small car class that’s meant to save Europe’s automotive industry. European car makers have been lobbying the EU to let them sell cheaper cars agai

Spare a thought for the MPV, won’t you? The multi-purpose vehicle, as it was known, was a big, boxy thing sometimes described back in its heyday as a people carrier. As opposed to what I never knew: w

I must take exception to the opening of your article ‘Are warranties warranted?’ (8 October), specifically the claim that our cars are 2.5 years older on average due to perceived reliability and the c

Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

IF YOU’VE SPENT ANY TIME ON A classified ad or auction house website in the last three months, you will have noticed a worrying/brilliant trend: a catastrophic/sensational fall in used and new car val

S mall cars are amazing. With much less space to work with, they must accomplish many of the things that in far larger cars we take for granted. As if that weren’t enough, they must be cheaper than bi