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Your personal expert guide to buying your next car.I'll be offering buying tips/advice & thoughts on all aspects of the automotive world.

MG6 GT DTi-TECH SE diesel manual hatchback road test review by Oliver Hammond

MG6 GT DTi-TECH SE road test review by Oliver Hammond - photo - boot badge

Take one diesel engine developed by Chinese company SAIC, combine with a healthy dose of Brummy design, mix with a completely new chassis and garnish with an iconic badge. The result? A new MG6 diesel. Yes, at last, the new MG6 can attempt to target the fleet market now that the range includes a diesel powerplant. It’s fair to say you’ve probably not seen many new MG6s on the roads yet, but it’s a landmark model for MG, having risen Read The Rest...

2013 Jaguar XF Sportbrake “Style and Substance” test review by Nick Johnson

Jaguar XF Sportbrake review by Nick Johnson, My Car Coach

For car makers out there who plan to launch an estate model, it would seem the worst thing you can ever do is describe your new model as just that. BMW have their estate ‘Touring’ models, Audi their ‘Avant’ range and now Jaguar have this, welcome to the ‘Sportbrake’. 2013 Jaguar XF Sportbrake 3.0 Diesel S Portfolio. Price:  From £31,945 (as tested £51,505). Available: Now The Sportbrake is not Jaguar’s first estate variant - that accolade fell to the X Type model from the Read The Rest...

2013 Mazda6 2.2d 175PS Sport Nav diesel manual saloon full road test review by Oliver Hammond

2013 Mazda6 2-2 diesel Sport Nav 175PS manual saloon road test review by Oliver Hammond Simons Car Spots - photo front 34 Village

On The Road Price: £26,955 - An all-new Mazda6 saloon isn’t the kind of news that gets everyone excited, but being a saloon lover I for one was really eager to spend a week with one after the very positive reaction it received around its very recent launch. The ‘large family’ and ‘compact executive’ car sectors are rammed full of quite viable choices, so it would be very interesting to see what impression the new ‘6’ made on me. Soon after Read The Rest...

2013 Range Rover “The King of the (Off) Road” test review by Nick Johnson

Range Rover road test review by Nick Johnson, My Car Coach

  New Range Rovers come along very seldom. The last one was launched all the way back in 2002, so when a new one is launched there’s a little celebration to be had.   2013 Range Rover 4.4 SDV8 Price: £94,695 Available: Now But first a little history. Let’s imagine for a moment the date is 1970 and your career of choice is Country Gent. Naturally you need a four wheel drive vehicle in which to thrash around your vast expanse of land, but you also Read The Rest...

2012 Ford Ranger Wildtrak 3.2 diesel automatic road test review by Oliver Hammond

2012 Ford Ranger Wildtrak 3-2 diesel automatic road test review by Oliver Hammond photo - front Ridge Hill 6

Don’t get me wrong – I absolutely love haute cuisine, umpteen-course taster menus and the like. But I’m equally at home with a good old, honest, supersized burger and chunky fries. In fact, I’m often a teeny bit envious of the guy who presents the TV show ‘Man vs Food’. In my case, ‘All things big or beautiful’ are the order of the day. Cue the 2012 model Ford Ranger. It’s certainly big. But is it any good? Exterior The new, 2012 Read The Rest...