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1. #Uk driving test 2015 drivers#
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Simple.Īmong the cars going through the road test mill over the summer, the obvious five-star quality stands out the Ariel Nomad and the GT3 RS got perfect scores, both being as near as damn it perfect on fitness for intended purpose. Care most about how your compact executive saloon handles? You’ll want the Jag. And rather than being even remotely difficult, it was utterly plain.

#Uk driving test 2015 drivers#

It was a crucial verdict for both brands involved, as well as for thousands of UK drivers waiting on dependable confirmation of the Jaguar’s dynamic superiority – and it would reverberate for a while.

This one had the flavour of a world exclusive about it, having been done in the same week that BMW launched the revised 3 Series. Ask me to name the best driver’s car of the year today and I genuinely couldn’t choose between them.Īnother big comparison hitting the shelves was our test of the Jaguar XE S and facelifted BMW 340i. But having since voted the GT3 RS as my favourite runner in our Handling Day field (in the absence of the McLaren, admittedly), I’m no more reassured now than I was then. On the day, for me, the Longtail edged it as the superior fast road car. If Luc Lacey’s dawn photograph of the pair on a slipway in Whitby isn’t among this year’s best snaps of the year, a steward’s enquiry is in order.ĭeciding which of those stellar cars appealed the most was the hardest call I had to make this year – and I’m still not sure I got it right.

#Uk driving test 2015 driver#

But I did have the onerous task of spending two glorious days in the company of the 675LT and 911 GT3 RS, hammering between the Midlands and the spectacular North Yorkshire Moors in cars whose driver appeal was each equally distinct and spectacular. Muggins here was fortunate enough to be first behind the wheel of… well, none of them, now I think of it.

The first four months of the year had already given us a handful of sporting first drives the next four would bring us preliminary reviews on the Lamborghini Aventador SV, Ferrari 488 GTB, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Audi R8, McLaren 675LT, Aston Martin Vantage GT12, Lotus Evora 400, Porsche Boxster Spyder and even the Koenigsegg One:1. And yet this year the sporting talent rolled in like Hollywood A-listers tumbling out of a Morris Minor clown car. If you were a car boss launching something truly block-busting – with cut slicks, a roll cage and enough power to out-accelerate an Airbus A380 – you’d probably choose the drier, warmer months of the year in which to do it. It’s an annual phenomenon, and for understandable reasons. The diary went sports car mad as the spring months gave way to summer. But demand there was, in spades, and that could tempt Porsche into other, similar projects. Lexus’s RC F wasn’t found too wanting against a BMW M4 and Audi RS5, we were fairly blown away by Radical’s RXC500 and, praise be, we got behind the wheel of the Cayman GT4, a car Porsche had long resisted making, not quite trusting the demand would be there. It was a problem they were quick to acknowledge and just as quick to rectify, and it’s an attitude towards corporate responsibility that looks all the more poignant at the end of the year.Īctually, for some of the coldest months of the year, we tested rather a lot of sports cars during the early part of 2015. Suzuki’s engineers had redesigned the link and were making it ready for production, telling us they were “lucky” the problem had occurred in our hands rather than those of a customer. Just 10 days later we were back at Millbrook Proving Ground with an updated Celerio.

Within 24 hours it had done so, realising the decoupling link was too weak and setting about designing a replacement. This was the day before the UK customer launch, and to Suzuki’s credit it did what it needed to do: it stopped customer deliveries, called cars back from dealerships and set about replicating the problem itself. We pulled the car to a halt using the gears and handbrake and promptly told Suzuki, which sent us another Celerio to try, and the same thing happened again. Harder than most people will press the brakes on the road, granted, but not harder than you might push during an emergency stop, at which point the Celerio lost all stopping power. Exclusive: Audi R8 to be reinvented as flagship electric supercarĪll fine, except that in our hands the link detached and the pedal fell to the floor after we pushed the pedal hard during a brake test.Electric Volvo XC90 successor to be revealed later this year.

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