Test driving the Jaguar F-Type R
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Test driving the Jaguar F-Type R

For the first time in years, I bought a Lotto ticket so I could maybe never have to give back this car. Jaguar’s performance-focused F-Type R has a five-litre supercharged V8 engine that can power it from nought to 100 in 3.7 seconds.Its four exhausts produce the kind of exclamat...

Matt Martel 07 Aug 2020
Test driving the 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT
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Test driving the 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT

Welcome to a display of unabashed, masculine American power. With its aggressive front styling and massive engine, Jeep’s 2020 Grand Cherokee SRT is a cross between Usain Bolt and an overweight guy in a Hawaiian shirt. Super-fast, but big and brash.The SRT weighs a smidgen under...

Matt Martel 31 Jul 2020
Test driving the Rolls-Royce Phantom
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Test driving the Rolls-Royce Phantom

You don’t drive the Rolls-Royce Phantom. You direct it. You are a captain on the bridge of a supertanker — you point its lengthy prow in the right direction and relax.Driving the Phantom, if only for a weekend, changes your expectations of what a car is and can be. The star-lit i...

Matt Martel 17 Jul 2020
Test driving the Range Rover Velar
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Test driving the Range Rover Velar

First-time car reviewer Matt Martel goes full throttle on the Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic S.

Matt Martel 10 Jul 2020