The battle of the ute 29 May 2001 Paul Owen test drives the 'biggest, brawniest super-ute' of them all. Dave Leggett takes a look at the new Commodore Executive wagon. Finally the CBR has broken out of the the 'Captain Sensible' role originally typecast for it by Honda, writes Paul Owen . The launch of Honda's new Civic arrived with the expected hoopla, but Murray Williams found that the hyperbole wasn't all over the top. It conjures up images of John Wayne leading a fragile band of settlers down the infamous Santa Fe trail.
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It's the first new small Jaguar for more than 40 years, and there hasn't been a more important car in the company's history, writes Dave Moore from Dijon, France. Paul Owen compares the Mazda MX-5 with Toyota's MR2. A hot rod with gumboots and leather underwear, Mercedes-Benz's ML55 also does a fair impression of a Zeppelin, writes Dave Moore . It takes 25 seconds to open or close the Mercedes Benz SLK s steel roof, changing the vehicle from roadster to coupe mode at the push of a button, writes Murray Williams. With a steel power roof that folds away like a jack-knife, Peugeot's 206CC is sure to stop traffic, if its cute looks haven't done so already writes Dave Moore .