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Thank you for the music: The Swedish supergroup Abba performs on stage in New York in the late Seventies. Photo: Getty Images

‘I could never let you go …’

The new Abba biography gets me thinking about the band’s role in an angry young man’s life

Honey, they shrunk the car

BMW is pretty clear about the customers it is hoping to tempt with its extraordinarily sleek and boldly nose-thumbing new 4×4, the X6.

One to set the pulse racing

Cars don’t come a lot more handsome than the new Brera from Alfa Romeo, which, with good reason, fancies itself as something of a George Clooney among automobiles — nonchalantly…

Honda unplugged

In an ideal world, cars wouldn’t have to burn petrol and smog up the place. They would run on a combination of grass cuttings and rainwater and, as they passed, the air would be…

Emission impossible

Driving while attempting to preserve the environment is a notoriously difficult manoeuvre to pull off. And yet the environmentally conscious driver still exists. But there’s hope…

Sudden impact

It’s probably fair to say that reviewers of cars don’t do as much as we could in the way of crash-testing. Asking questions about a new model’s crumple zones by, say, slamming…

Made just like they used to

The Volkswagen Golf, now in its fifth incarnation, has been with us for 30 years. In that time, the mother and father of all hatchbacks aimed to become the Beetle of its era, and…