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 While the front hubs lock automatically when you engage four-wheel drive, they don’t automatically unlock when you disengage four-wheel drive. To do that you must press the button in the dash. It should all be explained in your owner’s manual.

The second-generation Chevrolet Equinox is built in Ontario, Canada, and was built in Spring Hill Tennessee until 2015.

Between 2005 and 2013 more than 3,000,000 E9x-generation 3-Series BMWs were sold, across all engine types and body shapes. As the 335i was available in sedan, coupe, convertible and wagon body shapes we haven't been able to get an exact production figure for that model spec.

BMW's 320i has long been a popular entry-level prestige machine and, with its good looks, build quality, and engineering, it's not hard to see why. European cars often get a reputation for being unreliable when people used to driving basic Japanese cars don't take them for a service or drive them like a farm vehicle. Just like an expensive piece of clothing, or cooking an expensive piece of meat on the BBQ, you need to look after prestige European vehicles more carefully than you do a basic runabout. However, if you do look after them they should be perfectly reliable!

BMW's 3-series has traditionally been a rear-wheel-drive model in Australia, however the current 320Ds come in both RWD but also all-wheel-drive as the 320D xDrive model.

So long as you service it on the dot, change the oil at least every 10,000km or six-months, and drive it with mechanical sympathy the BMW 320D should be a reliable, comfortable, and safe daily driver.

Remove the speaker grille to access the first screw holding the door panel onto your Mk3 Audi TT. The second fastener is located under the arm rest above the storage pocket. Use a trim removal tool to pop the door card off the studs holding it to the door frame, then slide upwards to remove it from the window channel. Unclip the wiring on the back and you're done.

Audi TTs are all built in the Audi Hungaria Motor Kft plant in Gyor, Hungary.

When deciding which Audi TT is the best consider buying the highest-spec model you can get in your budget. The high-performance TT RS is a genuinely fast car capable of giving Porsches and more muscly performance cars a fright, but the little Audi coupe is a beaut machine no matter what spec you buy.

While Alfa Romeos have never had a stellar reputation for being reliable, maintenance-free cars so long as they're treated sympathetically and serviced on the dot there shouldn't be any reason they're not a good car. They look great and the Quadrifoglio is a real performance machine.