True to form for a company famed for its engineering prowess, Honda can’t sit still. No sooner had it launched the eagerly anticipated Type-R version of its latest Civic than engineers were commissioned to start working on possible improvements. The firm entrusted with this task was the Italian outfit JAS; its brief was to make [...]
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2009 Honda Odyssey
July 30th, 2010 
Jeremy The manufacturers of your regular 5-seater sedans market themselves as family cars. Which is all very well, but they seem to have not thought of one or two things: Some families have more than three children – I survived growing up in one. Even if you have two or three children, you occasionally need to [...]
2010 Hyundai Sonata
July 30th, 2010 Jeremy With an original (if slightly retro) design, quality engineering and manufacture, and a price that won’t be laughed out of court by too many of you, a good case can be made for the Hyundai Sonata being one of the top all-round performers in its class. The smooth 2.4 litre and 3.3 litre engines are [...]
2010 Ford Mondeo
July 30th, 2010 Jeremy Gone are the days when Henry Ford could magnanimously promise his customers a Model T or similar in any colour they wanted, provided, of course, that it was black. These days, the boot is most assuredly on the other foot, the customer being king all of that – and so his successors at the car [...]
2010 Suzuki Kizashi
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy As the Hyundai Genesis has shown, you don’t need a fancy name to move up the automotive food chain. But can just any automaker make the same shift? We’re about to find out as Suzuki’s all-new mid-size Kizashi is set to hit the Aussie market later this year.?When most of us think Suzuki, we tend [...]
2010 Subaru WRX
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy The first time I got behind the wheel of the Subaru WRX from the last batch, I was utterly underwhelmed. I had heard so much about its proud heritage and had received glowing reports of its power and personality, and went in expecting something pretty special; what I was confronted with instead was a limp, [...]
2010 Subaru Tribeca
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy So, in a boringly predictable variation on a theme, the new Subaru Tribeca is a good car. Subaru have been making quite a few of these lately, and it does make reviewing them a rather monochrome affair. A manufacturer like Kia – well, there’s the boom/bust temperament that puts the flush on my cheeks and [...]
2010 Subaru Outback
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy It’s a good ol’ boy, the Subaru Outback. Does what you want it to, gets you where you’re going easily and in comfort, and isn’t boring when you ask it to fulfil more than the fundamental A to B role. All-wheel drive traction, which is becoming a somewhat predictable trope of mine when writing about [...]
2010 Subaru Liberty
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy Egality and fraternity are all very well, but the best move the French ever made was in emphasising the primacy of Liberty. Subaru might do well to act similarly, as the newest runout for the appealing Subaru Liberty is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser. Stuffed to the gullet with all the goodies, both visible and subterranean, that [...]
2010 Subaru Impreza
July 16th, 2010 Jeremy Cool, calm and collected – think of the Subaru Impreza as the Barack Obama of the automobile industry, albeit with perhaps slightly less influence in the Middle East (or not, depending on whom you speak to). Choirs of angels have been trumpeting on for a while now about the impressive durability of the Subaru all-wheel [...]