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I’d be a hopeless sports coach. I don’t just suspect that’s the case, I fairly well know it, having spent a season ‘managing’ the Pear & Partridge FC, my local pub’s football team, 20 years ago. Other

There was a time when bosses at car manufacturers didn’t like to talk about platforms – the mechanical underpinnings of their cars. These are expensive to develop, so big car companies share them acro

For ages I’ve been wanting to test the latest Dacia Duster 4x4, now powered by a mild-hybrid 1.2-litre petrol triple, directly against my own old-shape 21-plate 4x4 diesel. I spent a happy afternoon a

I agree wholeheartedly with Illya Verpraet about adaptive cruise control (Testing, Testing, 4 June): it simply doesn’t work as it should and is inferior to normal cruise control. I find ACC as utterly

THE COOPER S WAS A SOGGY effort and this isn’t any better. You can forgive a hot hatch appalling ride but when it’s on top of a transmission that’s hard to gel with, an uninspiring soundtrack and impr

It was at once an unsatisfying and actually a very satisfying verdict for a group test. When I put the revised Volkswagen Golf against a pair of rivals in the Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 308 last Augus