Tow car stars of the Frankfurt show
EVERY TWO YEARS the motoring world descends on Frankfurt forthe motor show. The whole thing is on an enormous scale as the Germanmanufacturers seek...
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EVERY TWO YEARS the motoring world descends on Frankfurt forthe motor show. The whole thing is on an enormous scale as the Germanmanufacturers seek...
FORGET THE NAME: the new Suzuki crossover may wear an SX4badge but it's a very different car from the previous model.
THESE ARE GOOD times for small hatchback buyers. The FordFocus is great to drive, the Volkswagen Golf is a brilliant all-rounder, and theSkoda Octavia...
CITROEN HAS SOLD over 400,000 Picassos of one type oranother since the Xsara Picasso was launched in 1999. Judging by the numbers on caravan...
YOU EXPECT SOME tough off-roading on a Land Rover launch,but driving through the inside of an old 747 in the new Range Rover Sport?...
THE DACIA DUSTER took the ‘Best Budget 4x4’ award at the 2013 Tow Car Awards. From just £13,495, which is less than you’d pay...
THE HONDA CIVIC 1.6i DTEC ES took the prestigious ‘Best Green tow car’ award at the 2013 Tow Car Awards. Our testers said that:...
THE TOW CAR Awards now has a dedicated website, carrying full reviews, images and data of all 46 cars tested in the 2013 event....
FOR YEARS, THE best-selling cars in Britain were FordFocus-sized. Now the nation's best sellers are superminis like the Ford Fiestaand Vauxhall Astra.
Following tough, rigorous and independent testing, Practical Caravan reveals the winners of its 2013 Tow Car Awards – what tow car is the best...
SOME CARS PERFORM much as you expect. Some really surprise you. Of the two Fords I've been driving recently, one falls into each camp. Bigger...
THE TOW CAR Awards 2013 winners will be revealed in a ceremony on Thursday 13 June in the splendid surrounds of Woburn Abbey’s Sculpture...
THE PEUGEOT 2008 will cost from £12,995 when it arrives in showrooms in July. Buyers will have a choice of five engines. An 82hp 1.2...
BUYING A CAR is rarely an entirely rational decision. But if it were, a lot of us would end up driving the new Skoda...
LAST WEEK WAS the busiest, most tiring and probably most fun week of my year, testing tens of new models for the 2013 Tow...
WHAT CAR?'S TRUE MPG initiative, which promises more representative fuel economy figures than the official numbers, is one year old.
I'VE SPENT THE past couple of days driving superminis. Given that these aren't the kind of vehicles you see towing caravans very often, it's...
THERE CAN’T BE many more obscure cars than the Suzuki Kizashi. I’m not sure I’d even seen one in the metal until our test...
ALL FOUR CARS rated in the latest round of Euro NCAP crash tests have achieved five stars. The Renault Zoe, Skoda Octavia and the Toyota...
Here I’ve picked my top 10 potential tow cars – in no particular order – from the Geneva motor show. Qoros A new Chinese car maker,...
I’m sitting in the press office at the Geneva Motor Show. It’s a hive of activity, with journalists from all over the world around...
CHEAP ISN'T ALWAYS cheerful. Cheap can also be nasty. SinceDacia announced prices for the Duster back in June, we’ve been waiting for findout which...
THIS IS THE new Skoda Octavia Estate, one ofthe stars of next month’s Geneva motor show.
WE'RE BEING RIPPED off when buying factory-fit sat-nav andinfotainment systems, according to research by What Car?.
I LIKED THE Ford Kuga just the way it was. The first generation looked just right and drove better than most small SUVs. Would I...
A NEW RANGE Rover doesn't come along too often. In fact, this is just thefourth generation of Land Rover's regal off-roader since the car...
THE OLD MAZDA 6 rather dropped off the radar towards the end of its life.It's not that the 6 made a bad family car...
‘BIG’ IS THE word to describe the new Skoda Octavia. ‘Big’, because this is Skoda’s best-selling car across the world, so there’s a lot...
THE AUDI A3 Sportback has been named What Car?’s Car of the Year for 2013.
IT’S THE KIND of trip many of us plan but few ever make, towing a luxury Airstream with a Range Rover all the way...
WITH THE LAST of theChristmas leftovers eaten, and champagne chilling in the fridge for New Year’sEve, now seems like a good time to look...
THE INSTITUTE OF Advanced Motorists (IAM) is offering roadsafety advice to drivers heading out on the roads over the festive season. Someof it may...
BIGGER, CLEANER AND safer than its predecessor, the newSkoda Octavia could be one of the star cars of 2013 when it appears in showrooms...
UNTIL LAST WEEK, I’d never driven an Infiniti. Chances are mostof you won’t have driven one either. By the end of the year Infiniti...
I DON'T LIKE pick-up trucks. Why? The clue is that word – truck. These are commercial vehicles designed to carry heavy loads,...
DACIA'S NEW SANDERO supermini will cost as little as £69 per month on PCP finance. That's the monthly cost for the £5995 base model, based...
JAPANESE CAR GIANT Toyota is recalling around 75,000 vehicles in the UK, including some Avensis, Corolla and Prius models. The cars are all subject to...
I HAVE TO admit to being a bit of a Skoda fan. Back when I worked for What Car? I ran two Skoda long-term...
THE FIRST CUSTOMERS won't take deliver for another three months, but over 1000 Dacia Duster SUVs have already been ordered. What makes that really remarkable...
OUR FRIENDS FROM What Car? have announced their Used Car of the Year, although we can't see many Practical Caravan readers towing with one. The...