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BMW 120i

BMW’s long-awaited entry level sports hatch

More chimp on a chopper than girl on a tricycle, as BMW’s new Prodigy-fuelled ad campaign would have us imagine. The 120i actually packs a surprisingly perky punch for its pound and as as you’d expect from The Ultimate Driving Machine™ the 1-Series has a build quality second to none and a responsiveness and handling only rear-wheel drive can offer.

» BMW 120i

Audi A6

High-speed Monte Carlo mountain thrills in the Audi A6

Days don’t get more better than this: a morning of dicing around the walnut whip hilltops of Monte Carlo in Audi’s new über saloon the A6 with a world class racing driver at the wheel, followed by an afternoon of fancy - motor - yacht - sitting - champagne - quaffing Grand Prix watching. There have been worse, much much worse days than this. We just need one more thing, “Fancy a round of golf, Johnny?” I ask my driver, ex-Formula 1 ace Johnny Herbert.

» Audi A6

Volvo XC90

A Highland fling in Volvo’s slick new slimline XC90 estate

Ok, so 4x4’s can be really annoying. My route to work in the morning is blighted by mothers dropping their little miracles at school in huge Chelsea tractors or Range Rovers with elk grids attached to the front. Rural East Sussex looks more like Baghdad about nine in the morning, there is that much heavy metal bashing around.

» Volvo XC90

Honda S2000

For Speed and sexy design get yourself an Honda S2000

Earning the bucks these days takes hard graft. Functioning from seven to 11, staring at a monitor, stressing the brain and screwing your eyes, all the time striving to enter the upper echelons of the company hierarchy.

» Honda S2000

Saab Aero 9-3

Scando maniac

If you’re anything like me, then you’ll have admired one from afar, showing off outside the Conran Shop or at rest in Costa Coffee’s car park, all sleek, sophisticated and Swedish. You don’t even need to handle it internally, feel it’s super accomodating multi-adjustable seating or know it’s unbridled naked aggression, to realise you’d love every minute of it.

» Saab Aero 9-3