I completely understand the fascination with Land Rover’s, I’ve had a few over the years and my fair share of problems with them. I won’t go on about the negatives as we could start a new thread about it ! I went to a private viewing and drive in the new
In addition to the mountain roads and the odd road trip to a fun country, that I have occasionally posted on over the last months, there’s also the motorway. Now we often spend a lot more time on it than chasing up and down mountain passes and often it’s
Finally the production ready car !!! Some quick facts: Weight from 1360 kilos. 3 power units ... 95/120 or 150 hp. The 150 hp does a 0-62 mph in less than 8 seconds which is plenty quick for our crazy traffic. Pretty long wheelbase (around 2500 mm) and mu
The seat! (I have back problem and the Volvo seat are so comfortable for me); Air suspension - comfort Auto Pilot - required as driving in traffic gives me back problem and I really like the Volvo Auto Pilot, not as advance as Tesla but better then most G
Many years back I drove Mercedes (Predecessor of the E class) but then the company switched to BMW. Good cars but not even close to MB. Thereafter I switched to Porsche. Drove the Panamera for few years, liked it plus it tick one of life’s boxes to drive
E39 is kind of a 1950's Calatrava or early Red SD... or something like that... a thngs so perfect as to defy the limits of the manufacture's culture that made it... anyway... BMW is, to me, now a 'performance' rear wheel drive Toyota with better design...
Last weekend we saw the X308 VANDEN PLAS LWB with the V8 motor. In some countries the name DAIMLER was protected, so the called them VANDEN PLAS. The X308 was the last car from DAIMLER / VANDEN PLAS, the stoped production in 2003. This DAIMLER SIX is the
Some PuristS with long memories might recognize Luc's name. A watch lover, car collector, designer, philosopher (can you be a designer without being a philosopher?), Luc is now busy running Hyundai design. Here are some excerpts from a press release intro
DUBs (a brand of wheel which has become almost a generic term for ridiculously-large rims on a sedan) I know it's insane but I think I want one of these cars ... No trouble with "sleeping policemen" Handling might suffer a bit though, and trunk space if y
Here are the cars we saw yesterday that could not be fitted into the category of Red(ish). I will start with one that pleased me and which I am proud to call the cleanest gardener's truck ever. In our area there are two kinds of landscape maintenance men: