‘losing the manual gearbox makes us significantly less skilled drivers and less human’

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

‘IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES… we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…’ The opening line from Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities. The 2000s promised to b

MILEAGE 10,756 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To see if this latest incarnation has maintained that trademark no-frills appeal My time with the Swift really is something of a love story. There are so many thing

The Fiat Panda 4x4 is an unlikely cult hero. A small hatchback is never going to have the ground clearance for hardcore off-roading, nor the torque to be a capable tow vehicle. And yet its pluckiness

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

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