Being late to the party makes for a spectacular entrance   Although possibly the last sports car maker to bite the bullet and build an SUV, Aston Martin made headlines when it launched the stunning DBX in 2020. The first SUV in the iconic brand’s history. Not many cars stir the soul like an Aston 

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Rollicking and roaring round Ronda After months and months of incessant, relentless, soul sapping rain, interspersed with gale force winds, rogue flying trampolines and Brexit chat, anyone would need cheering up. The cars are all permanently grimy, muddy, dull. Everyone is frowning. Coronavirus is going to decimate the world’s population, if we aren’t all wiped 

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How to make friends and (literally) “influence” people I do love an SUV. The ride height. The size (one needs to be able to fill a car with saddles, mallets and children – in that order). Let’s also not forget the need to peer over hedges and into people’s cars and be conspicuously nosy. There’s 

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90’s icon is reborn: 8 series BMW lives! Mysterious diplomats get new wheels My mother had this terribly mysterious friend back in the 90’s. He was always very well dressed and had an equally mysterious job. He did something vague in the Brazilian foreign office. This vague something or other took him around the globe 

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The year of the (double) dragon? Words: Chris Rosamond The name Ssangyong translates as ‘Double Dragon’, but that hasn’t stopped the Korean brand daring to make inroads into the adopted home of St George. The bread and butter models are a pair of family-friendly SUV/crossovers called the Tivoli and the Korando, but we’re much more 

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(…who can afford it!) Photography: Antony Fraser Words: Chris Rosamond Drifting into Cowdray to watch the polo on a sunny summer’s afternoon could hardly ever be considered an actual chore. But should the heat of the midday sun appear too enervating from the cool oasis of your drawing room, we think we’ve discovered just the 

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