(2001-2008)

WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To see whether a modernised 2005 car can be better than a new one The last time I ran a 2005-model-year long-term test car was, more or less, in 2005. But here we are again. This

ASKING £7995 PRICE ENGINE 1796cc/4-cyl/OHC POWER 116bhp@5000rpm TORQUE ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, the idea of a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid seems as logical as Mr Spock: zero-emissions motoring around town, and the efficiency of, well, a diesel car on longer drives. Why, then,

Could a fully optioned E30 325i be a budget alternative to a period M3? Alan Anderson thinks that it just might be…

Earning an executive saloon as a company car was a career milestone at the turn of the millennium, and in 2001 Jaguar’s X-TYPE took aim at BMW’s class-defining 3-Series. We revisit a boardroom battle from the boom years