Ecoty: the test

£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

IF YOU READ LAST MONTH’S ECOTY feature you will have seen the Octa in all its pomp, rocking the knobbly tyres while all around it sat on sticky Cup 2s. These 20-inch ‘POR’ or Professional Off Road tyr

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

At the beginning of my first full lap of Llandow Circuit behind the wheel of the Artura in the summer, I had what can at best be called a ‘track limits violation’, cutting the corner onto the grass at

If you want to do the fairest and most scrupulous job as a road tester, to reconfirm an impression or be sure about a relative strength or weakness, the best thing is simply to start over. Rinse and r

WHAT YOU SHOULD be reading is how Mark Dixon enjoyed driving his recently purchased Rover in France after graciously accepting a press invitation to the Champagne region – which is full of culture, ar