Two wheels
Keeping gouges and grazes free from infection is one reason sometimes cited for the leg-shaving business. But it's a red herring. That's not really why we do it, says Matt Seaton.
Two wheels
Matt Seaton: I've had my share of run-ins with drivers. Nothing really ugly, just verbals, but it's astonishing how they colour your day: it's probably quicker to metabolise the unwanted adrenaline than it is to let go of an unresolved argument.
Two wheels
Matt Seaton: What can we say about cycling on celluloid? When you think of how the car, in cinema history, has spawned an entire genre - the road movie - cycling is clearly the poor relation.
The sideways bike
Matt Seaton: This seem to fall rather into the category of 'reinventing the wheel'.
Bike parking
Matt Seaton: You know that something is afoot if bike parking is getting trendy.
All of life on a bike
Cycling in the rain
Join the club - if you can find it
Why I love the 'fixie'
Vive le Tour of Britain
There's gold in them thar hills
Think before you drink and ride
Why Bush is a role model to us all
Why drugs are still a scourge
A fresh outbreak of road rash
How to avoid cycle sweat
A perverse use of bikes
Emasculated metrosexuals
Bike doctor
Juddering front forks
How do you combine a sunhat and a bike helmet?
Should I attempt to change my riding style?
Is cycling damaging my eyes?
Do cyclists need insurance?
What are the environmental cost of cycling?
How often should a bike be serviced?
What kind of bike should I buy?
Why won't men use a bell?
What should I do about knee pain?
Where should I keep my bike?
What cycling lifestyle upgrades can I make?
How can I stop my bike being stolen?
How can I avoid getting a sore bum?
A special kind of cross-breed
Giles Smith: The Lexus GS 450h gives every impression of being a traditional company director's prestigemobile.
A hybrid sensation
Giles Smith: At last! A petrol-electric car that doesn't look like a washing machine on wheels.
He's electric
It does a steady 25mph, drives like a milk float and might have been designed by six-year-olds. But at least my G-Wiz car makes me greener than David Cameron, says Alan Rusbridger.
The car that makes you famous
Andrew Gilchrist: The Aston Martin V8 Vantage turns a lot of heads - too many, actually.
A huge car
Giles Smith: It's built in Austria, but the Chrysler 300C Touring is an all-American company car-cum-pickup truck.
A spare room on wheels
Giles Smith: It was voted Britain's Ugliest Car - but there are reasons to love the SsangYong Rodius.
Looming large
The new Mercedes M-Class is so huge, it's virtually unparkable anywhere outside of Arizona, says Giles Smith.
Bath time!
Andrew Gilchrist tries to wreck the new Range Rover Sport.
'Like a fishing smack caught in a squall'
The new Kia Sportage is a tremendous value SUV - if you keep below 5mph.
The slide of your life
Is Skoda's 4x4 tough enough for the Arctic? Andrew Gilchrist finds out.
Truly, madly, steeply
The new Fiat Panda 4x4 may well be the world's hardest hostess trolley
Do slam the doors
Land Rover's Discovery is so butch even its cupholders are bombproof.
My car's bigger than yours
They're big, thirsty and deadly to pedestrians. Ken Livingstone calls their owners 'idiots'. But sales are soaring, so what is it about SUVs that so many drivers love? Catherine Bennett test drives two of the latest models to find out.
Driving into the abyss
We must tackle the environmental nightmare of 4x4s by taxing them off the road, says George Monbiot.
Handling a Legend
Honda's Legend is packed with so many driver-assists it doesn't really need a driver.
More cream leather than a porn baron's sitting room
Citroën's new C6 couldn't be more French if it put on a black polo neck and smoked.
A luxury saloon car
You would call the R 320 a people carrier, if that didn't seem to be lowering its tone.
A sensible small car
What on earth possessed VW to call their new, bottom-of- the-range city runabout, the VW Fox?
Why would a car need an inflatable curtain?
Giles Smith: Drive the new Volvo C70 coupe and find out.
The incredible hulk
Aimed at fat cats and rappers, Chrysler's 300C is the king of bling. Martin Love gives it a big ten 4.
Would a fin have hurt?
Giles Smith: Where's all the chrome? Where are the flashy fins? Can this really be a Cadillac?
Poor Punto
Giles Smith: Fiat's Grande Punto is a computer game star. Shame it's so tame on the road.
Small is so much not what modern cars are about
Toyota just made the Yaris bigger. What a terrible thing to do to a super-mini, says Giles Smith.
A bottle-opener with decent car attached
Giles Smith: In a move certain to make its rivals quiver, the VW Jetta is now part-car, part-kitchen.
A convertible with a solid steel top
The Astra Twin Top could be a real crowd-puller - if the roof worked that is, says Giles Smith.
Prepare for lift-off
Giles Smith: Peugeot's 407 Coupe is part car, part barge - and part Thunderbird 2.
Estate of play
Giles Smith: Thanks to Saab's 9-3 SportWagon, it is now possible to drive an estate car and have fun at the same time.
Small and strong
Giles Smith: With the new Golf GT TSI, you can put turbo lag behind you - fast.
Small wonder
Giles Smith: Once its top is off, the Colt CZC is slapstick as a bumper car and cute as a slipper.
Charisma on wheels
If George Clooney was a car, he'd be the new Alfa Romeo Brera, writes Giles Smith.
Posh Porsche
Giles Smith: Forget the 80s loadsamoney image - the Porsche Cayman S is pure joy.
Fancy racing?
Giles Smith: Hit the accelerator on BMW's new M6 and the international price of oil goes up by $2 a barrel.
To infinity and beyond
It might not look it but the Ford Focus ST is a musclebound berserko-hatchback.
Car with a fragrance
Giles Smith: Peugeot's fresh, new 207 hatchback is not to be sniffed at.
Never mind the obscurity of the badge
Giles Smith: The revamped Seat Leon is cheap, nippy - and as cute as a spaniel's nose.
The power of strange dreams
Giles Smith: Why is there a big red clown's nose on the dashboard of the revamped Honda Civic?
