Archive for Joe Simpson
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Cars 3.5 out of 5Honda Civic 1.6 CDTi SE review
7 May 2013"Economical, isn't it?", proclaimed the man from Honda who came to pick up our Civic diesel. Given that he was talking to the lead-boots of the Pocket-Lint office, this was a risky statement. It’s not unknown for us to at least halve the official fuel...
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Cars 4.5 out of 5Mercedes-Benz CLS 250 CDI BlueEfficiency AMG Sport Shooting Brake review
6 May 2013"Wow, how much did this cost then?" That was most people's opening gambit when they saw us in this new, Shooting Brake body-style CLS. For what it's worth, the answer is that it starts at around 50 grand. But our car, with options, came out at more like...
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CarsLamborghini Aventador LP720-4 50° pictures and eyes-on
29 April 2013Happy Birthday to Lamborghini from all of us at Pocket-lint. The company that’s forever trying to kick sand in Ferrari’s face is celebrating 50 years of car-making this year. And as a birthday present to itself, at the Shanghai auto show this weekend...
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CarsMaserati Ghibli pictures and hands-on
25 April 2013Maserati is on a mission. Having played second fiddle to Ferrari in the posh Italian brand hierarchy for so long, it’s gone on a product offensive, the main aim of which is to make you pick one of its cars over a high-end Jag, BMW or Merc. Given that...
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Cars 3.5 out of 5Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.4 TB MultiAir 170 Sportiva review
12 April 2013Having tried, and been rather impressed with, the ball of energy that is Alfa’s 170bhp, 1.4 "MultiAir" engine a couple of weeks back in the Mito, we couldn’t help wondering what kind of Alfa options were available if you needed a bit of extra space...
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Cars 5 out of 5Volkswagen Golf GT 1.4 TSi review
5 April 2013There is no car quite like the VW Golf. The default European choice of motoring appliance, it is possibly no more and no less a car than you’ll ever need. But some people have a different view. Seeing this new Golf for the first time at the Paris motor...
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Cars 4.5 out of 5Nissan Qashqai 1.6 dCi n-tec+ review
21 March 2013Last year in the UK, Nissan sold more of these high-spec “n-tec” trim-level Qashqais than Ford did Mondeos. Consider that for a moment. This one trim level of the Qashqai now outsells the entire range of a car that just a few years back was Britain’s...
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CarsVolkswagen XL1 pictures and hands-on
8 March 2013And now for something completely different. Having brought you the skinny on the supercar wars going on between Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren - with a not exactly attainable Rolls Royce thrown in for good measure - we’ve saved the best thing from...
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CarsRolls-Royce Wraith pictures and hands-on
8 March 2013It’s not every day a new Rolls-Royce comes along, so we stood expectantly with the crowds to watch the Goodwood-based company’s latest car being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. Said to be built "in the spirit of the company founders’ historic...
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CarsMcLaren P1 pictures and hands-on
6 March 2013Here at Pocket-Lint, we’ll only bring you content and reviews on stuff that we’ve spent time with. So although the McLaren P1 concept was "unveiled" last September in Paris, we’ve waited until now to bring you details because back then it was an...
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CarsFerrari LaFerrari pictures and eyes-on
6 March 2013The Ferrari LaFerrari, what do we know of this, Ferrari’s flagship hypercar – successor to the 2005 Enzo and before that the legendary F50 and F40? Well for starters, we can tell you that it’s absolutely huge. It might be low, but while McLaren’s...
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CarsLamborghini Veneno pictures and eyes-on
6 March 2013Lamborghini has always had an amusing relationship with Ferrari. It was set up by a man who built tractors because he got annoyed with old-man Ferrari’s less than bothered attitude towards fixing his personal Ferrari when it broke. And ever since, the...
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CarsCadillac ELR pictures and hands-on
17 January 2013Fancy an electric sports car, but haven’t got enough money for a Tesla? Then right now, this is your best hope. The Cadillac ELR was launched at the Detroit auto show this week and we managed to go hands-on and grab a chat with a few of the people who...
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CarsMaserati Quattroporte pictures and hands-on
17 January 2013It may seem like the quintessential Italian big saloon car, but this new Quattroporte (sounds sexy, but in Italian it simply means "four door") has been redesigned primarily for China. You see the old car, svelte though it was, was a little cramped in...
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CarsLexus IS pictures and hands-on (video)
17 January 2013There’s no getting round it. Whatever interesting nuggets we tell you about the features of the new Lexus IS, or however interesting we reckon the car’s general looks are, whether you like it is probably going to come down to what you think of that...
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CarsBMW 4-Series Coupe Concept pictures and hands-on
15 January 2013Don’t believe the concept name, this is your new 3-Series coupe. After being hit for six by the Audi A5-which up-ended this coupe market by introducing an altogether different body style to the saloon A4 - BMW has responded by repositioning its coupe...
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CarsC7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray pictures and hands-on
15 January 2013It’s not exactly exaggerating to say that a new Corvette doesn’t come along every day of the week. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that the new "C7" Corvette, which ushers back in the famous "Stingray" name too, is on the front of every US paper this...
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CarsQNX car platform 2.0 concept in a Bentley Continental GTC pictures and hands-on
14 January 2013QNX is probably the biggest company you’ve never heard of, when it comes to in-car tech. Wholly owned by RIM of BlackBerry fame, the company’s on-board operating system sees service in the vehicles of most car manufacturers you care to name and in...
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CarsAudi invents always on full-beam lights that don't blind oncoming drivers
9 January 2013Audi has demoed the latest technology in smart headlights at CES 2013, showing-off LED lights that can cleverly avoid dazzling oncoming drivers. Introducing the next-generation Matrix LED headlight, Audi predicted a win-win future – one in which the...
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Cars 4 out of 5Kia Sportage 2.0 CRDi KX-4 review
4 January 2013We’ve been looking at the 4x4 - or SUVs, as they’re now more commonly known - in many recent reviews. Although it’s been knocking about for a couple of years, we didn’t think it was fair to leave Kia’s Sportage out of the round. In many respects,...
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Cars 4.5 out of 5Fiat Panda Easy TwinAir review
3 January 2013The squircle. It’s one of those slightly ridiculous, post-millennial words that any writer worth his or her salt ought to avoid. Yet before long, it’ll probably be making an appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary. And given that the squared-off...
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Cars 4 out of 5Honda CR-V 2.0 iVTEC EX review
28 December 2012Everyone loves to hate an SUV, don’t they? Yet, as our recent review of the VW Touareg attests, even those of us who hate the breed can’t help but be won over and see why they’re so popular with modern families, after a week behind the wheel. And...
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Cars 4.5 out of 5RenaultSport Megane 265 Cup review
20 December 2012In the land of the hot hatch RenaultSport would be king. Back in the Eighties, when this type of car truly took off, Peugeot and VW – with the 205 GTi and the Golf GTi – were the kings of transforming euro shopping trollies into cheap ways to get...
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CarsPorsche Cayman pictures and hands-on
29 November 2012Porsche revealed its new Cayman in Los Angeles yesterday at the 2012 LA Auto Show, and we were in town to get a first glimpse. The sister car of the Boxster unveiled earlier this year in Geneva, the Cayman appears at first glance to be very much a “same...
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OnlineMercedes-Benz A-Class (2013) pictures and hands-on
19 November 2012The new A-class is a new type of car. That might be stating the obvious, but what we mean is that while it’s kept the name of the model, Mercedes has fundamentally changed the concept of its smallest car. The A-class used to be a packaging marvel –...