Top 5 hot hatches

We Brits like used cars. More than 7.6 million were sold last year, outstripping new ones by four to one. The top 10 sellers form a fail-safe selection that ticks most of the important boxes, notably

TYPICAL. Weeks of scorching summer weather, and as soon as we produce a rundown of our favourite second-hand convertibles, the heavens open. But all is not lost – thanks to modern drop-top technology,

Richard Dredge BELIEVE it or not, but it’s more than 25 years since the Toyota Yaris first went on sale, replacing the Starlet in the process. It was back in March 1999 that the Yaris Mk1 arrived in t

MILEAGE 5725 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To see how much progress BMW has made with its entry hatch between generations I t’s almost amazing that I have written seven reports on the same car and not felt the

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