Car Lists

Dan Prosser delves into the world of first sports car, offering hints and tips, as well as four potential candidates for a range of budgets.

Buying a used car doesn’t mean you need to compromise on safety. From Volvo to Vauxhall, here are the 10 safest used cars you can buy.

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is arguably the definitive hot hatch. Here’s how it evolved from the original Mk1 to the outgoing Mk7.

Earlier this year, the Bugatti Chiron Supersport took the title of the world’s fastest car. Here are the incredible vehicles it had to be beat.

The new car market is hugely important to Britain’s economy. Here are the 10 best-selling models according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

Buying a car on a budget doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll need to drive an old and unreliable banger, as our guide explains.

Almost all convertibles offer a memorable driving experience, but that doesn’t mean they need to cost a lot of money to buy and run, as these five examples prove.

With the introduction of new technology to the car market, so some once familiar features are slowly becoming obsolete. Here are six examples that are already well on their way out.

The Porsche Taycan, new Land Rover Defender, Honda e and Volkswagen ID.3 are among our highlights from the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show.

With the Frankfurt Motor Show just around the corner Dan Prosser selects the five performance cars he’s most looking forward to seeing.

If you want your used car search to be as painless as possible there’s something to be said for opting for one of the most popular models. Here are the 10 best-selling used cars of 2019 so far.

Hybrid cars need not cost a fortune to buy. In fact, you can pick up used models from Toyota, Lexus and Honda for less than £5,000. Jon Quirk looks at the pros and cons of buying hybrid on a budget.

The terms ‘modern classics’ can be applied to an enormous selection of vehicles. Here are five favourites, with prices starting from £1,500.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone – or ULEZ as it’s known – is an area covering central London that older diesel and petrol cars must pay to enter. Here are five cars that’ll get you out of paying it.

As the costs for young drivers continue to increase, so the choices of viable first car become ever slimmer. Here we pick five affordable options that should also be memorable in years to come.

Say the day has finally arrived to turn that dream car into a reality. Dan Trent chooses five contenders, from a British-built off-roader to thoroughbred Italian supercars. Are any of them on your ‘one day’ list?

There are plenty of cars that satisfy the demands of family motoring and also provide a spark of interest to keep the enthusiast flame alive. Here are five you might want to try…

If you live beyond the high-rise skylines and tax zones of the major cities and you’re after cheap wheels and miserly fuel bills, our 60mpg contenders could be right up your street.

Many would have you believe that the legendary Audi RS2 was the first true high performance estate car. Dan Prosser would beg to differ…

While we can’t prepare you for the moment your toddler vomits into your favourite shoes, we can hold your hand when it comes to what you should be looking for in a family car.

There are countless famous scenes in movies where the car is as much a star as any flesh and blood actor. We’ve chosen six you can buy now to give your daily drive a little star quality.

Looking for a second-hand car to tow your caravan, boat, horsebox or trailer? These are our pick of the best used tow cars on the market.

Our team of writers pick their favourite cars from the 2019 Geneva Motor Show. From a mid-engined Aston Martin to an electric Mercedes van, it’s certainly an eclectic bunch!

Without cars such as these, life on the roads would be a lot less interesting…

The original Gran Turismo transformed the way enthusiasts thought about cars. Here are five legendary vehicles from that very game you can now buy for surprisingly tempting prices.

Now that winter has arrive it’s time to don those bobble hats and go in search of a convertible while prices are at their most competitive. Here are five of the best.

With 2019 now upon us it’s time to pose that most essential question: will this be the year you finally buy your dream car? The truth is you needn’t wait for your numbers to come up before parking whatever hunk of exotica it is you’ve always longed for on your driveway, as Dan Prosser explains…

While CarGurus is a used car marketplace, we also feel it’s important to keep abreast of what’s happening in the new car market. After all, today’s new cars are tomorrow’s nearly new ones. What that in mind, below we’ve rounded up what were the 10 best selling new cars on sale in the UK in…

At the end of a year that most people will fondly remember for the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, or perhaps for what was an uncharacteristically spirited World Cup performance by the England football team, those of us who debase ourselves with impure thoughts of turbochargers that glow red hot will instead…

Halloween is almost upon us. And of course, that means your thoughts will have turned to which cars are best to survive a zombie apocalypse. After all, whose wouldn’t? At CarGurus we’ve used our automotive expertise to put together the definitive list of the five cars in which you’re most likely to survive a zombie…

Let’s be honest, not every piece of new technology that arrives in the automotive world is strictly necessary (heated cupholders, anybody?). However, that is also not to say we should dismiss the arrival of all new gadgets with murmurings of how cars were so much better when there were fewer things to go wrong. Take…

A really great driver’s car can be so breathtakingly beautiful that you’d swear it was conceived by Michelangelo himself, or it can look like the back end of a pig. However, in the world of great driver’s cars, beauty is entirely incidental. It simply does not matter. Each of the following five points, on the…

You could say the 2018 Paris Motor Show is as notable for what isn’t there as what is there. Absentees include Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Bentley, Ford, McLaren, Rolls-Royce, Volkswagen and Volvo, among others. That said, those who are in attendance have taken the opportunity to reveal some significant and exiting new models. Below we’ve…

There are few things as exotic in the automotive world as a mid-mounted engine configuration. Think Ferrari 458, Lamborghini Diablo, Audi R8… you get the idea. However, you need not spend a six-figure sum in order to experience the unique poise and balance afforded by a mid-engined layout. Indeed, as the cars below prove, there…

Everybody loves an underdog, yet when it comes to cars there are still certain models that are all too easy to overlook. Below we’ve picked out five such examples, and explained why they might just deserve to make the shortlist when it comes to searching for your next car. THE 4X4: SUBARU XV Price from:…

If you’ve spent the past few days looking at that strange yellow ball in the sky and wondering if life might not be better behind the wheel of a convertible you are not alone. But what kind of drop-top should you buy? Below we’ve separated the market into the different types of convertible on sale.…

For your enjoyment, here are some of our favourites automotive Easter eggs, plus a few features that are just plain helpful.

Learning to drive these days must be so easy. Sure, the roads are more congested than ever and, yeah OK, the test itself is considerably tougher. But in modern cars almost everything is power assisted or automated or connected or, you know, reliable, which in turn removes much of the challenge.  To prove as much…

As the Geneva motor show rolls into town this week, we thought it might be fun to see how five of the show’s star cars from five years ago are faring on the used car market now that time and familiarity have played their part. Why five years? Quite simply because the 2013 Geneva show…

Whether you regard Valentine’s day as the perfect opportunity to shower you loved one with presents, or a commercial juggernaut whose only purpose is to keep florists afloat through the winter, there’s no harm in indulging in a little internet-based distraction to mark the occasion. With that in mind we’ve been diligently scouring the CarGurus…