The quiet villages and rural landscape around Maidenhead is hardly the place to test three monster cars, but it’s exactly this sort of environment where these expensive, powerful cars will end up living.
Blog - August 2012
First Driving Impressions – Volvo V40 D3 SE Lux Nav, UK Press Launch, Manchester
We stayed nice and local for the all-new V40 launch, just over the hills from Yorkshire in Lancashire.
Test Car – Ford Mondeo Estate 2.0 litre TDCi Titanium
I drove the Mondeo Estate over 1,000 miles from my home in Huddersfield, to Ford’s test track in Lommel, Belgium and back again.
Test Car – Renault Twizy
I last drove the Twizy on a very hot day in Ibiza and said at the time that this was the perfect place to drive one. I also said it would be a different experience on a cold, wet winter’s day in Huddersfield, but I didn’t have to wait until winter, as June was pretty close to November and December in terms of bad weather.
First Driving Impressions – Vauxhall Astra VXR, UK Press Launch, Rockingham
Although the event was based at the Rockingham Circuit near Corby, I only took the Astra VXR out on the local roads, as the thought of going around a race track in a 280ps car was a little too daunting.
First Driving Impressions – Vauxhall Astra VXR, UK Press Launch, Rockingham
Although the event was based at the Rockingham Circuit near Corby, I only took the Astra VXR out on the local roads, as the thought of going around a race track in a 280ps car was a little too daunting.