Long chainey

I am after your advice with regards to the best option for long term motoring. I presently drive a 2001 BMW 320d which has 117k miles and has started to suffer from minor niggles. I recently secured a...

Just Czeching

I have just purchased a dealer pre-owned Hyundai i30 CRDI Automatic, which I was told was manufactured in South Korea, I am also informed that the next i30 CDRI Automatics will be manufactured Czechoslovakia....

Stop/start economy

I am interested in the new Toyota Yaris 1.33 stop/start. Particularly attractive is the low VED, the 6-speed gearbox and dual VVT-i Technology that makes the car quick but economical. I have noticed your...

Sitting vroom

We are currently running a 2001/51 Nissan Primera and thinking of downsizing. Purely an armchair exercise so far, but as a result of reading your articles, a Nissan Note, KIA Cee’d and Hyundai i30 are...

Off’d Corsa

We have a 1995 Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 auto 5-door that has done 44,500 miles, mostly on journeys of a mile or less in our local urban area. This could well be a good time to buy a new one, which, at our age,...

….with the truth

Seeing you refer to the Hyundai i20 returning "more than 50mpg" I wondered if it has the same 1,248cc engine as our recently purchased i10. Our only disappointment with this excellent little car is the...

Wife and aughter

We are thinking of changing our Honda Jazz. The new model may be better in many respects but it just seems to lack that little something. We would like a stylish, well-built, small on the outside, large...

Chain letter

My wife and I have a dilemma. At present we have a 70,000 mile 1998S Nissan Almera automatic, top spec. We love it: always reliable, cheap to service oil twice a year etc., brake pads yearly. I understand...

Tinys are a changing

I’m now car downsizing and wish to get a small/medium hatchback in the £8k-£10k range. Since I am 76 years old, does it under current market conditions make economic sense to purchase new rather than used?...

Tiny tin

I think I was confused by reading reports of the old model Hyundai i10 1.1. I am now searching for a local dealer (Fuengirola area) as my nearest main agent appears to be more than 2 hours drive away....