Our Cars: 1998 Toyota Avensis 1.8GS

2 March 2015: Final reckoning?

Is this last free car post the last post for its subject?

30 January 2015: Sound charades

The Avensis gets £28 worth of upgrades.

6 January 2015: Too much information?

The Avensis gets stuck in a traffic jam, caused by a local cycle race.

17 December 2014: An alarming incident.

Martin Gurdon finds a quick fix remedy for his Avensis' lock and alarm fault.

14 November 2014: Free car foibles. Bits that work and bits that don't

When you drive a 16-year-old car with 146,000 miles on the clock, you don’t expect everything to work. Instead you hope the stuff that does is the stuff that matters.

18 October 2014: How low can you go? Life with a free car

In the annals of dull, expedient cars, the original Toyota Avensis must make the top ten.