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Review | Bentley Continental GTC Speed - This flying B creates a buzz!

Wind in the hair motoring never got so good.

Bentley has a long and proud history in motor racing. The Bentley Boys, Le Mans, Brooklands, the Bentley Blower, Indianapolis. They also have a wonderful history for wind in the hair, flies in the teeth, open-top motoring. And if there’s one thing that really gets us excited it’s a powerful convertible.

Like the Bentley Continental GTC Speed, for example.

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Review | Mercedes EQS SUV - Big electric SUV goes to the top of the Mercedes class

The car landscape is heavily evolving and the race for car firms to produce a range of electric cars continues to gather pace, with the important thing for all of the manufacturers being to have at least one electric car in every section of the market. And that is precisely what Mercedes is doing with their latest car…the EQS SUV.

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John Marcar John Marcar

Review | BMW M340i Touring xDrive (G21 LCI) - The Driver’s Wagon

Since 2010, John Marcar has been looking for conclusive evidence that fast estate cars are worthy of high status, and BMW might have just helped his case with this, the BMW M340i xDrive Touring LCI.

Could this be the perfect blend of practicality, performance and fun whilst also returning sensible economy figures? John certainly thinks so…

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The VW ID.3 - Is driver efficiency at risk of replacing driver engagement?

“We used to look forward to driving” - is this a sentence many of us may find ourselves saying in the not-too-distant future?

John Marcar recently experienced the future as represented by VW and its ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5 cars and ended up asking the question; Has driver efficiency come at the cost of driver engagement?

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Review | BMW i4 M50 - A version of the future (I think) I'm okay with.

Think of 5 new EVs, and I'll bet that at least 4 of them are big blobby-shaped SUVs, except, most of the time, they're not SUVs; they're just confusingly enormous 4-seat cars. I understand that large cars are on trend at the moment; customers clearly want to buy them but what I can't work out is why? What was ever wrong with a car shaped like - a car?

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Graham Courtney Graham Courtney

Review | The 2022 Honda Civic - Honda Plays The Generation Game

Our roving reporter Graham Courtney recently enjoyed a short trip to Madrid to try out the latest model of the much-loved Honda Civic. The classless car has proven popular for generations so Graham wanted to find out if the newest model is in keeping with the legacy.

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