Martin buckley

If you want your motoring life affirmed, find a thriving low-volume car business and – if they have the time for you – see if you can hang out for a while with the people who run the place. I dropped

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I’m so disappointed in Luca de Meo. His decision to quit the top job at the Renault Group has left me feeling bereft, not least because over the years – at Toyota, Fiat-Alfa-Abarth, VW, Seat and final

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

For ages I’ve been wanting to test the latest Dacia Duster 4x4, now powered by a mild-hybrid 1.2-litre petrol triple, directly against my own old-shape 21-plate 4x4 diesel. I spent a happy afternoon a