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  The all-new Ford Fiesta arrives in showrooms in July, and is being described by its makers as the most technologically advanced small car on sale in Europe. While rivals have abandoned the slow-selling three-door body style Ford offers the new Fiesta in both three and five-door variants. Both the exterior and interior have been redesigned, while there will be ...

Citroen dealers will be able to address the damage that rising crossover sales have done to the MPV market later this year, when the C3 Aircross goes on sale. Targeting the mushrooming small crossover segment led by the Nissan Juke, the C3 Aircross replaces Citroen’s Picasso MPV. It has been jointly developed with future Citroen sister brand Vauxhall, whose newly-launched ...

Kia will significantly expand the market available to its dealers later in 2017 with the launch of the Stonic compact SUV. Set to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and go on sale in the following month, the Stonic will compete in the currently rapidly growing B SUV segment. It is expected to become one of Kia’s ...

Renault dealers have begun taking orders for the first facelifted version of the Captur, one of the earliest B-segment SUVs when it launched four years ago and now the brand’s best seller in both the UK and Europe. First versions of the new model are expected on UK roads in July, with prices ranging from £15,355 to £23,745 and the ...

Vauxhall dealers have opened order books for the Crossland X SUV, with first deliveries expected in early July. Prices for the new model will range from £16,555, buying the 1.2-litre 81PS petrol variant in SE trim, up to £21,380 for the 1.6 turbo diesel of 120PS in Elite Nav trim. Three petrol engines will be available, with the most popular ...

Renault dealers can now sell the Koleos SUV again – but the new model is very different to its poor-selling compact SUV predecessor withdrawn from the UK market in 2010. First seen by European audiences at the Paris show in September 2016, the new Koleos goes on sale at priced £27,500 to £34,200, with first deliveries expected in late summer ...

Kia’s new generation Picanto goes on sale on 1 May with the brand expecting the model to help dealers tackle a challenging second quarter sales environment. According to Kia UK president and CEO Paul Philpott, the launch of the new city car is timely as dealers aim to maintain the record volumes achieved through the first three months of 2017. ...

Vauxhall will complete its revamped ‘X’ SUV line-up early in 2018 when the Grandland X goes on sale. First images of the new model have been revealed ahead of its public debut, at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. In showrooms it will sit alongside the recently relaunched Mokka X and the Crossland X, the new model’s sister that is ...

Our long term Kia Optima PHEV has been busy over the last month. It has completed a 560 mile round trip to Manchester and Leeds which tested its motorway and city driving ability and, of course, the unforgiving daily commute across south London to see if the car delivers on its fuel economy promise. A month on and the unforeseen ...

Vauxhall has revealed the third and final member of its new range-topping large car line-up, the Insignia Country Tourer. An off-road styled sister to the already revealed Insignia Sports Tourer estate and targeting the likes of the Volvo Cross Country, the Country Tourer will make its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. So far neither a UK ...