Latest Kia Optima 4-Door Saloon test-driven by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Sales of D-Segment models in the UK are hard work even if you are classed as a premium brand manufacturer offering such models as the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and, from the UK, the Jaguar XE. Only the heavily advertised Merc C-Class is in the UK’s top ten new car sales chart thanks to its … [Read more...]
Features by David Miles
Skoda Octavia Estate Scout 4×4 Road Test
Skoda Octavia Estate Scout 4 x 4 – Takes the Rough with the Smooth. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Don’t fancy being one of the latest craze of ‘me-too’ buyers of small medium and large SUVs and Crossovers, but need a bit more security of 4x4 traction with winter just around the corner, then the new car market offers an increasing number of choices of all-wheel-drive cars and … [Read more...]
Audi TT – Range Starter 1.8 – Road Test
New Entry Level 1.8 litre Audi TT Coupé – Less Pressure on Your Pocket. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Until the value of the British Pound stabilises following the Brexit divorce, less expensive entry level models might become a more sensible buy when it comes to choosing an imported new car for the new ‘66’ plate registration month of this coming September. By chance, or … [Read more...]
Latest Nissan Navara Road Test
New Nissan Navara Double Cab Arrives in a Growing Market Sector. It’s assessed here by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). In the mid 1990’s UK sales of Double Cab Pick-Ups were at their peak with registrations led by the Mitsubishi L200 range. Then the Government changed and upped the Benefit-in-Kind tax levels on these work and leisure vehicles, which dulled sales and then registrations of … [Read more...]
Volkswagen’s Latest Tiguan – Road Test
The New Vokswagen Tiguan Mid-size SUV – Classy but Costly. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Originally launched in 2007, the first generation Tiguan five-door, mid-sized SUV sold in big numbers, 2.8 million worldwide and 100,000 units in the UK. It is VW’s third best selling model in this country after the Golf and Polo ranges. Now the second generation Tiguan range has just … [Read more...]
Nissan Qashqai Tekna 1.6 DIG-T 163 Road Test
Nissan’s Qashqai Goes from Strength to Strength – The UK’s 5th Best-selling Car. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Whatever the future holds for vehicle production in the UK following Brexit, Nissan by the end of this year will have increased build capacity of their British designed and built Qashqai C-segment Crossover range. They are opening a second production line to meet European … [Read more...]
MG GS Road Test
The MG GS – A New Kid on the Crossover Block. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). “Is that the new MG Crossover”, just one of several questions people asked during my spell with the latest Crossover to come to the fast expanding SUV and Crossover market sector. “It’s much larger than I thought” said one Nissan Qashqai owner. I said “Why did you think it was a small vehicle” – “Well … [Read more...]
Audi A4 Allroad quattro First Impressions
Audi’s Answer for Smooth and Rough Motoring – The New Audi A4 Allroad quattro. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Audi’s ‘model explosion’ of new vehicle introductions continues with the arrival of the A4 Allroad quattro, a more rugged model than the A4 Avant quattro estate on which it is based. Having just added two new variants to the large SUV market, the SQ7 and Q7 e tron, Audi is … [Read more...]
Audi News and First Impressions of Audi’s Latest Q7 Quattro Models
Two Electrifying New Audi Q7 Quattro Models – ‘Fast’ and ‘Frugal’… Reviewed by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). News Electrifying new models but in two ways. First, electrifying performance from the SQ7 4.0 V8 TDI 435 hp 900 Nm (664 lb.ft) quattro, the UK’s fastest and most powerful diesel SUV, priced from £70,970 on-the-road. Second, the most frugal Q7, the e tron 3.0 TDI quattro … [Read more...]
New Toyota Hilux – News and First Drive Impressions
The Latest Version of the Legendary Vehicle that is the Toyota Hilux... Assessed by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency) – who also explains the UK taxation situation relating to 'Light Commercial Vehicles'. The Toyota Hilux has been the mainstay of the global Pick-Up market for almost 50years. Launched in 1968, more than 18 million have been sold worldwide. To date and closer to home in 2015 … [Read more...]
New Audi A4 Avant Road Test (and latest Audi news)
Good for Business Both for Audi and for Customers – The New Audi A4 Avant. David Miles (Miles Better News Agency) reports… High flyers in the UK’s new car market are the premium brands of Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover. With BMW sales up 14% for the first six months of this year, Mercedes by 18%, Jaguar up 68% and Land Rover 17% – Audi’s 4% increase looks poor; below … [Read more...]
Peugeot 3008 Road Test
David Miles (Miles Better News Agency) assesses the Peugeot 3008 Crossover. ‘An Oldie but Still a Goodie’ (that’s the car, not necessarily David…). The original Peugeot 3008 Crossover was launched in 2009 and updated at the end of 2013. Today in new car terms it is a bit of an ‘oldie’ especially as it sells in the highly competitive SUV/Crossover sector which is the fastest growing area of the … [Read more...]
Volkswagen Golf Estate Alltrack Road Test
The VW Golf Estate Alltrack – Takes the Rough with the Smooth… Says David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Despite Volkswagen’s emissions indiscretions they are still the top selling brand in Europe although their global profits have fallen by 20%. Their range of Golf models is the Europe’s best selling model range overall. An addition to the Golf Estate range is the Alltrack which adds … [Read more...]
Latest Audi A3 Models Arrive – News and First Impressions
Audi Gives Their A3 Family a Mid-life Refresh – News and Views. Summed up by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). The Audi A3 family of three door Hatchbacks, five door Sportback, four door Saloon and the two door Cabriolet soft-top have received a mid-life refresh. These refreshed and ready to go third generation A3s adopt the brand’s latest styling changes, have new or improved engines, … [Read more...]
Ford S-Max All Wheel Drive Seven Seater Road Test
Ford’s S-Max Seven Seater MPV – Now With AWD Reviewed by David Miles (Miles Better News Agency) Yes summer is officially here but remember the horrors of last winter’s weather; gales, floods, ice and for some long months, deep snow. How many of us were just wishing to have 4x4 traction for our family or work cars? Most of the major volume sales manufacturers are saying that up to 20% of … [Read more...]
Road Test – Volkswagen Touran Seven Seater MPV
All Aboard the latest VW Touran People-Carrier By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency) We know MPVs or ‘people-carriers’ have lost out in terms of sales throughout Europe to the status-enhancing and fashionable SUV/Crossover type models. The tide could turn because customers who prefer practicality as opposed to following fashion now have available plenty of alternative new and revised MPV … [Read more...]
Kia’s First Quarter Century in the UK – and a Mini Road Test of the Picanto (in highest spec. form).
Kia’s 25 years in the UK and Growing Fast – and a review of their Picanto City Car. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). During 25 years of trading in the UK, Kia has sold over 750,000 cars. Almost half of those sales have been achieved in the last five years and the target is to reach the one million mark by 2020. Kia was established in South Korea in 1944 building bicycles, then … [Read more...]
New MINI Clubman ALL4 Estate First Impressions
The New MINI Clubman ALL4 Estate – Now Built in Oxford. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). The MINI Clubman estate with ALL4 is the first all-wheel-drive MINI to come off the Plant Oxford production lines. The SUV styled MINI Countryman ALL4 versions to date have been built by Magna Steyr in Austria. The Clubman ALL4 line-up comprises the Cooper S and Cooper SD, and prices start from … [Read more...]
New Peugeot 2008 Compact SUV First Impressions
New Peugeot 2008 Compact SUV Breaks Cover this Month. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). Some people like their compact SUVs to look tough and macho – think Nissan Juke, other owners prefer a more elegant and refined approach such as the previous Peugeot 2008. The 2008 was launched in 2013 and has pulled in 585,000 sales worldwide since then, including 40,000 in the UK, of which … [Read more...]
Infiniti Q30 Road Test
Infiniti Q30 Sport City Black 2.2 Auto 4WD Offers Ownership Exclusivity... Says David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). If you want a premium brand mid-sized family or business-use car and don’t fancy the now high volume selling and commonplace Audi A3, BMW 1 Series, Mercedes A-Class, Volvo V40 or Lexus CT, then the new Infiniti Q30 hatchbacks and future QX30 mid-sized SUVs might fit the … [Read more...]
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