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Not as hardcore as we've come to expect, but a cracking car nonetheless

The Impreza needed time to work its charm on Peter Tomalin

Tribute to a friend and great character

The Jaguar XK has gone back, and Peter Tomalin reckons it will be a hard act to follow, despite some persistent electrical niggles

The Jaguar XK comes off second in a battle with some storm debris, but Harry's still impressed on a West Country cruise

The Jaguar XK keeps getting better and better, despite an ignition glitch and a wallet-lightening service bill

Peter Tomalin's still impressed by the Jag, and judging by the public's reaction, they are, too

Our Westfield's gearbox had been whining with great character. Then it jammed...

The Jag arrived on a chill grey Tuesday morning in early April. I didn't get much work done that day, largely on account of leaving my desk every ten …

When the first S-types appeared in the late '90s, I hated them with a passion. Too many focus groups and styling clinics had produced a throwback to a…

The Jag has now been back with us for more than a month since the prolonged investigation into its electronic epilepsy. It has also become clear why i…

Last month's report, you may recall, ended on something of a cliff-hanger. The Jag had developed a number of intermittent faults, starting with the ce…

The Jaguar has a comedian's sense of timing. We'd promised the kids three days at Disneyland Paris in the last week of the school holidays and, becaus…

There was always an air of slight surreality surrounding the MG SV-R, and now that it's gone we almost have to pinch ourselves to believe it was ever …

How many of the gadgets on your car do you actually need? How many do you actually use? Give me air-conditioning and a good CD player and I'm happy; w…

I think I may be turning into my father, which is slightly unsettling, though not as unsettling as turning into my mother. I started thinking about th…

A memory comes back to me from the early '90s, of driving the then-new 3.8-litre version of the M5. I can vividly remember being blown away by the Bee…

Regular readers will know I've become a massive fan of the latest-generation Z-car. I reckon it's one of the greatest affordable performance cars of t…

Jaguar is back in the headlines this month, and this time for the right reasons. Finally it has revealed the car it should have built at least five ye…

The 350Z's 3.5-litre V6 has always made a good noise; there's just never been quite enough of it. The obvious answer is to fit a freer-breathing exhau…

I've done a few stupid things in my time. Leaving my brand new pushbike parked under the wheels of a coal delivery lorry when I was seven. Trying to c…

I hadn't realised the Z had been racking up the miles so quickly, and I'd overshot the 20,000-mile service; fortunately Camden Nissan of Northampton t…