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Survey Finds Honda’s Jazz Hits All The Right Notes

YOU won’t usually find much fanfare accompanying Honda’s Jazz supermini, but the compact hatch clearly hits all the right notes as far as its owners are concerned. And this has been confirmed by the latest Auto Express Driver Power survey, with the Jazz scoring an impressive reliability score of 98 per cent. Up 1.2 per cent on its 2013 score, the British built Honda Jazz climbed two places to take the top podium finish in this year’s results.

Classic car commercial: 1984 Ford Tempo

We picked on Chevrolet for its super-1980's vintage Astro TV commercial on Wednesday. So in the spirit of fair play, we'll turn our attention toward Dearborn today. What could our friends at Ford offer that Chevy didn't deliver with its space oddity?

Mazda CX-5 gets new trim levels

Mazda CX-5 gets new trim levels When car makers come up with trim specifications for their models, they do so in a way that gives easy stepping stones in equipment levels, from hair shirt to over the top. They also expect that many buyers will pay a visit to the options list to add in a few extra goodies to the standard spec, but it looks like Mazda has been getting the same request repeatedly from buyers of the CX-5 compact SUV – give us a sunroof and leather. Until now, the only way to get sunroof and leather was to opt for the range-topping Sport trim – which costs from £27.5k – but now Mazda has added two trim levels beneath the Sport - SE-L Lux and SE-L Lux Nav – which come already equipped with the two most requested extras.