CITROEN’S positivity about occupant comfort is laudable but – like the England cricket team or Rachel Reeves’ Budget – eventually it’ll make contact with a brutal reality, in this case British roads.

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THE DEFINITIVE VERDICT

Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.