Category Archives: Renault
Renault Twingo – Rate it on the Auto Trader Cool-o-meter
The Renaultsport Twingo is £12k of driving magic. Yes, the French mechanics have waved their wand over this unassuming city car. And yes, it will show most cars with twice the power a clean set of heels along a bendy … Continue reading
Are you buying a car in January?
January will see a bundle of hot new superminis unleashed onto UK roads – including the Alfa Romeo Mito, Ford Ka and Fiat 500 Abarth. With plenty of car deals, low petrol prices and postponed tax increases, 2009 is a … Continue reading
First taste of new Renault Megane
This is road tester Andy Goodwin reporting from an autumnal Madrid, where I’ve just driven the brand new Renault Megane for the first time. Gone is the large rump, made famous by Renault’s ‘shaking that ass’ adverts, in favour of … Continue reading
Driving test passed!
After six months of missing gears, hitting kerbs and stalling – I finally passed my driving test. But at one point I was certain I’d failed. I left the Clio in third gear approaching a junction and thought it was … Continue reading
Filed under Celebrities, Renault, Tiff Needell
Learning to drive: how did your test go?
Earlier this week, the Auto Trader editorial team revealed our very own driving test nightmares. Junior copy writer Dominic Sacco, currently learning to drive, divulged his confessions of a learner driver. Which car did you learn to drive in? Was … Continue reading
Filed under Renault
Ford Focus ST: Hot or not?
Few arguments in the Auto Trader offices get as heated as the question over which is the top hot hatch. Stuart is a big fan of the Ford Focus ST, but I’m not convinced. I always thought that the second … Continue reading
Ashes to Ashes – best cars of the ’80s
Filming for the hotly anticipated series of Ashes to Ashes – follow up to the multi-award winning Life on Mars – has begun, with the first episode scheduled to air in early 2008. As with Life on Mars, the cars … Continue reading
MPH mayhem, American muscle and a hot new Mini: the week in brief
In celebrity news this week, Auto Trader readers voted for their favourite Jeremy Clarkson quote, while we brought you a full report on the car-carnage festival of MPH ’07. And Auto Trader caught up with Strictly Come Dancing star and … Continue reading
Veyron power – in a Bentley
Bentley boss and president of Bugatti, Franz-Josef Paefgen is our kind of guy. Why? He is the driving force behind the slightly unhinged idea of fitting the monstrous Bugatti Veyron engine into the new Bentley Arnage saloon.
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