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The KIA Sorento may not be on the tip of everyone’s tongues when it comes to 4x4s, so as a self-confessed lover of SUVs and a relative newcomer to the KIA brand, was Oliver left impressed after a week with the 2.2 diesel manual version of KIA’s new Sorento?
The original KIA Sorento was introduced by the Korean firm a decade ago in 2002. It was biased towards being a very capable off-road vehicle, built around a truck-like, ladder frame chassis Read The Rest...
Hot on the heels of the Skoda Yeti he drove and loved a couple of weeks ago, Oliver spent a week with Skoda’s boldly-named car with executive intentions, the Superb, in estate guise, to see if it cuts the mustard as a businessperson’s mile-muncher and as a family car.
I was a big fan of the original Škoda Superb in terms of its looks and the excellent VAG quality package it offered at very appealing prices, so out of all the Read The Rest...
Now that this 6th generation incarnation of Vauxhall’s ever-popular Astra model has cemented its success in the UK market since its launch in late 2009, SimonsCarSpots thought it was time to see what made the latest Astra substantially outsell Ford’s rival Focus as the best-selling car in June 2010 and continue to do rather well ever since.
The Astra range starts at £12,995 for the standard 1.4 petrol Expression model and goes up to just over £30,000 a fully kitted 2.0 Read The Rest...
When we announced that the car being reviewed by SimonsCarSpots this week was coming in the form of a Škoda Yeti, yep, you bet – we heard them all! Abominable, Snowman, Bigfoot, Monster, Ugly… the list goes on. But despite the preconceptions, the Škoda Yeti has been heaped with praise by most people who have driven one. Read on to find out why Oliver Hammond equally concurs that the Škoda Yeti is one stonking little-big car on many levels…
Prices for Read The Rest...
The ‘go-anywhere’ Shogun has been around for years and is renowned as one of the truest, most capable off-roaders out there, but have its engine, on-road ride and modernity fallen behind the latest 4×4 pack? Read on to find out how Oliver rates this 2012 facelifted version in its top-spec SG4 configuration after a week at the helm.
“It’s quite big!” someone said to me when they first saw it. But that’s like standing at the North Pole and saying it’s Read The Rest...