Monthly Archives: August, 2011
Just A Little Panda-Eyed
When I was a very much younger man than I am now the Fiat dealer in Edinburgh regularly advertised very low deposit deals on Unos and Pandas. Every night there would be an advert for Unos costing £3,499 and Pandas at £2,999. I think they were asking for £99 deposit and thirty quid a month …
Porsche-Faced…
Green is good If you’re in the market for a fiftyish thousand pound sportscar, you’d be well advised to have a good close look at the Porsche Cayman R. The reviews have been excellent. It’s a Cayman S with a bit less weight and a bit more power and seats which hold you like a …
Things I Like, Part 3 – A Nice Big Citroen
I like a nice, big Citroen. I always have. La Déesse was just a little before my time but I used to see them occasionally wafting around the place when I was younger. They were always slightly scruffy and I didn’t really get them. I got the CX though. It was a spaceship when everything …
Look Out! It’s The Up!
This is exciting! The new Volkwagen up! is not just another small hatchback! It’s the only car whose name ends in an exclamation mark! Now the Kia Ce’ed or Cee’d or C’eed or whatever it’s called is not the only car whose name includes punctuation! The VW up! is the Westward Ho! of the car …
New 911 Is Mid-Engined Shock!
Only joking. This is the back of the defiantly rear engined new Porsche 911. For once, it actually is new. We have become used to additional variants of the 997 appearing seemingly every few weeks but this one really is pretty much all-new. The Carrera S pictured above has a 400bhp version of the 3.8 …
Octaviaaaaaaaaargh, Part 2
Okay, stop sniggering at the back there. The fastest two litre, forced induction production car in the world is a Skoda Octavia vRS with the mother of all turbochargers, scaffolding in the back and a set of moon discs on the wheel. evo journalist Dickie Meaden drove it to a two-way average of 227.070mph at …
New Lexus Geese Hybrid
I may have misheard. I’m slightly mutton. This is the new Lexus GS. It’s more full of toys and trickery than just about anything short of a Typhoon fighter. I like the head up display and the Lane Keeping Assist gizmo which can do a little steering for you when you can no longer be …
Rotter, The Driving God Of Low Tyre Wear.
Everyone* remembers Richard Hammond yelling “I am a driving god!” when being more than usually exuberant in a Bowler Wildcat. He was hooning around somewhere. It might have been a quarry. Whenever the Beeb does anything with stretches plausibility, there’s a quarry involved. Okay, it’s usually a Dr Who set and there really isn’t the …
Saloons Are Cooler Than Coupes. Discuss.
I was watching the episode of Top Gear broadcast on BBC2 last night. It was the one with the film where Clarkson pretends that a Sierra Cosworth is Belgian and an oompah band causes May’s 190E-16 2.3 to break down and Hammond has an E36 M3 Evo saloon with dubious leather trim and those horrid …
The Art of Noise
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I haven’t blogged about the McLaren MP4-12C until now. I know this is a bit of a wish-fulfillment fantasy blog from time to time what with various BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes and the Pagani Hurler getting a mention but I really don’t want it to be about all the cars I want to drive but can’t …
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