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Sunday Times Driving letters, May 21, 2017: Jeremy Clarkson Renault Twingo review

Reader Letters: Twingo tangle, cramped canines

Presumably Jeremy Clarkson enjoyed his brief experience with the Renault Twingo (“So hot, you can cook breakfast in the boot”, April 23)...
Published 22 May 2017
Me and My Motor: Patrick Bergel, great-grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton

Me and My Motor: Patrick Bergel

Patrick Bergel remembers the haunting black-and-white photographs of a three-masted ship sinking into the Antarctic ice that hung...
Published 15 May 2017
VW Polo as toxic as a fully laden lorry

VW Polo as toxic as a fully laden lorry

One of Britain’s leading superminis, the Volkswagen Polo, is among the worst polluters on the road, according to newly revealed test data...
Published 12 March 2017
Me and My Motor: Hannah White — the yachtwoman’s car is a means to an end: setting sailing records

Me and My Motor: Hannah White

Hannah White is on a mission to set a new record on water. Having last year become the fastest woman to sail across the Channel, she is now
Published 19 September 2016
2016 VW Polo Mk5 review

Volkswagen Polo Mk5 review (2014-on)

The Volkswagen Polo is the Stella Artois of the car world. Reassuringly expensive, it’s everything that Volkswagen does best, but in miniature.
Published 14 June 2016
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Top 100 Cars 2016: Top 5 Superminis

The Sunday Times Driving presents its Top 5 superminis of 2016, featuring Mini, Ford, Skoda, Audi and Volkswagen.
Published 03 January 2016
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First Drive review: Seat Ibiza (2015)

The launch of this revised Seat Ibiza is not about a stylish new look or a radical line-up of engines that will go easy on the planet and a driver's...
Published 09 June 2015
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News: James May belts into 600bhp rallycross car for...

James May has been doing quite a lot in series 22 of Top Gear to counter his reputation as Captain Slow: he championed the Nissan GT-R in the Australia...
Published 06 March 2015
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News: Volkswagen reveals Fiesta ST-beating Polo GTI

Ford Fiesta ST drivers take note: Volkswagen is launching a hot new version of the Polo GTI that will leave you standing at the lights.
Published 19 September 2014
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News: Bull elephant has a good scratch – on a VW...

This Polo certainly had a hole, and probably more, after a bull elephant used it as a scratching post.
Published 06 August 2014
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Car clinic: My VW Polo's fuel display has disappeared...

A few days after the annual service the fuel display on my Volkswagen Polo’s digital dashboard disappeared. My car is just three weeks out of warranty...
Published 03 June 2014
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Minor miracles

Ford Fiesta Zetec 1.0T EcoBoost stop-start 5-dr This is such a brilliant small car that you will be smitten
Published 02 April 2014