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Volvo’s most frugal XC yet – but it’s only 2WD

VOLVO USES the XC designation across its ranges to denote ‘cross country’ and so you would think that if you bought an XC model, then that’s what you’d get.

Nissan Navara gets V6 power

TOP OF the range Navara pick-ups from Nissan can now be fitted with a new powerful and class-leading V6 diesel engine, while those further down the food chain get more performance, plus better emissions and economy from the more standard 2.5-litre dCi engines.

VW goes Amarok

NOT QUITE a new player in the pick-up market, but certainly one that has left this segment pretty much to others until now, VW reckons that its new Argentinean-built Amarok pick-up will set new standards in the one-tonne class when it hits the showrooms in September.

Yeti stalks the 4 x 4 market

THE TOP-SELLING ‘crossover’ Nissan Qashqai better watch out because a Yeti is stalking it!

Toyota adds power

A REVISION of Toyota’s Hilux pick-up range for 2010 will see a 20% power boost for the 2.5 D-4D engine and some added bits and pieces in the regular price.

Snow boosts 4 x 4 sales

DON’T HEAD for your local car auction in the next few weeks to think that you can grab a bargain.

Taxing questions from Mazda and Subaru?

IT WOULD appear that many people were so severely inconvenienced by what the daily newspapers referred to as a ‘cold snap’, they have given an emphatic two-fingered salute to the Government-led anti-4 x 4 brigade by turning up in droves to outlets selling four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Cars go on the skid

THE COLD snap has had more than an effect on water pipes and feeding troughs – one in 10 drivers crashed in the last month during the snowy and icy weather.

Land Rover bucks the sales trend

IT MIGHT not be solely down to the recent ‘big freeze’, but Land Rover bucked the trend of falling car sales with a whopping 93% rise in sales in the final quarter of 2009.

The juciest cars of 2009

THIS YEAR’S been an easy pick for the ‘best drives of the year’ title in my book.

Farmer’s favourite is the top Scottish car

THE FARMERS’ favourite SUV, the Land Rover Discovery is Scotland’s best car, according to Scotland’s motoring journalists.