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

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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

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Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

Mercedes-Benz has overhauled its flagship S-Class limousine in a bid to improve the performance, refinement and technical capability of a model that is a benchmark in the luxury car segment. The new S