Give a car designer a pencil and scrap of paper, stand back, and 10 minutes later you’ll have a sketch of an imagined slinky-dreamy two-seat...

Peak oil? Forget that, we’ve reached peak niche. No surprises it’s Mercedes -Benz that’s achieved it, the people in Stuttgart singularly det...

Hot hatchbacks always marketed themselves as the do-all family car for people like us. They’d have five seats and a usable boot, yet willing...

After years in the performance-car wilderness, Honda is back. Spinning on a Swiss turntable at the Geneva show alongside the new NSX was th...

Even if you’ve never driven the BMW i3 before (though we highly recommend it), it’s clear that the little electric city car, humble though i...

If there’s a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that you might have seen a four-door smart before, then you’d be right. The smart comp...

Back in the summer of 2012, when London was host to the Olympics, Ford launched the Focus ST. This 246bhp 2.0-litre turbocharged hot hatch ...

 It’s taken time for the many positive qualities of the ASX to outdo the disappointment of it having an automatic gearbox, but the car has ...

This has to be juicy material for the update, I say to myself, as that weird noise starts off again. It sounds like the mating call of an el...

One of the consequences of having so much space, is that you tend to carry more and more junk in the boot, and because it’s pretty vast, you...

I've always regarded certain mileage readings to be personal milestones; the first 1,000 is one for many, I'm sure, as is the moment...

What a difference a service can make. Recently, the Grand C4 Picasso has started to feel a bit tired. Slow to start, a little sluggish and w...

No matter what I do, I just can’t reach the Civic Tourer’s limits. And before you worry I’ve turned into Diesel Car’s less talented version ...

Sometimes it’s all too easy to be cynical about the level of technology in cars today parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, automatic he...

It’s said that the pen is mightier than the sword. If that’s the case, the camera must be a positively lethal weapon, as if there’s one inst...

Few owners would choose an A7 Sportback as their sole means of transport; so, with no long trips being undertaken over the Christmas and New...

Spring is on the horizon, hooray. Daffodils are blooming, woodpeckers are drumming in the woods to create nest sites, but it is still perish...

Who could have predicted that the Range Rover Evoque would age so gracefully, still looking as fresh and appealing today as the moment it w...

Regular Diesel Car readers will no doubt remember the MG 6 Magnette we ran as part our of long-term test fleet, and will recall that it was...

Anyone that writes off the latest Corsa as more of the same, will be missing out, as despite having a similar silhouette to the previous ge...

Just as Peugeot unveils an updated 208 at the Geneva motor show, we’ve got behind the wheel of the latest addition to the current 208 line...

The old phrase “time goes fast when you’re having a good time” must apply to cars, too, as it doesn’t seem like three and a half years sinc...