MILEAGE 4828 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Is this version good enough to be the performance X3? Back when Jane Austen and the like were still writing, they would often take themselves to the seaside for some

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Having recently exchanged my BMW with a claimed 0-60mph time of 7.3sec for one with a more leisurely time of 7.6sec, I stumbled on to Road Tests Revisited (27 August), where a hefty Wolseley 6/110 fro

Ididn’t know Richard Parry-Jones when I travelled to Saint-Tropez in January 1993 to drive a new Ford. But without knowing it, I was already feeling his influence. The car was the replacement for the