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Makes all the big decisions at Autocar, including whether he’ll drive the Aston, or the Kia, home. Is currently preoccupied by small turbo petrol engines and whether the internal combustion engine is doomed.

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• Optimism reigns supreme at Kia
  I'm just coming to the end of a day in Seoul talking to various big bosses from Kia, and it’s...
• Still Smarting
  Our Smart's gone and I'm going to miss it. Not all of us have been smitten, mind you. The Fortwo's...
• Rare, but well done XK
  I ran an XKR for eighteen months and to say I loved it was an understatement. In fact I became an XKR...
• Paris - am I seeing things?
  Maybe I’m just tired from a 16-hour day at the Paris show yesterday. But looking at pics of the Audi...
• Kia's rise continues in Paris
  Amongst all the amazingly extravagant show cars at Paris this year there were also several significant...
• The Nissan Murano is an American car
  Four years ago I was sitting in a bar in San Franscisco with Patrick Pelata, then Nissan's product...
• New Mini - is this just more of the same?
  So what do you think of the Mini SUV? The right way to go? Or does it look too much like what’s gone...
• I drove home in a... Punto Abarth
  I’ve always liked Abarths and could never work out why Fiat let its performance arm die away in the way...
• Hybrid renaissance
  The new Honda Insight looks like a regular hatchback. Which is exactly what it should resemble. After...
• Volvo must be Volvo
  Volvo has a new boss and the fact that they're parachuting in a big cheese from Ford of Europe probably...