Archive for January, 2010
Volvo Ice Camp - the movie
Peter Burgess writes:
If you are curious about just what goes on when Volvo takes a group of motoring journalists to Austria and Germany to drive its latest models (including the new XC60 R-Design), this video gives a taster. That’s me waving by the igloo!
Peter
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Chilling out with Volvo
First drive: Volvo XC60 R-Design
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Posted: January 29th, 2010 under On Launch.
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow … please!
Dan Trent writes:As I boldly stated in my recent Top 10 best and worst cars for the snow (remember that stuff? Seems like an age ago already!) big, luxury rear-drive saloons like Mercs and BMWs have proved themselves useless when the going gets slippery. Perhaps aware of this Mercedes sent us this E220 CDI […]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Kia Venga: UK buyers get it better
cj hubbard writes:
The must have accessory for all European Kia Vengas? Try this:
That’s right, a UK number plate. Never mind the fact this car is actually parked outside a hotel in Spain (the same one SEAT used for the Ibiza Bocanegra launch, incidentally); I drove it alongside all-new UK spec Kia Sorentos earlier this week.
Or […]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under On Launch.
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GM exploits Toyota quality surprise
Richard Aucock writes:
Toyota is going through a bit of a crisis in the US at the moment. It has just had to recall 2.3 million cars, to fix a problem with accelerator pedals that could become stuck. The Japanese giant has even stopped production of some cars while it figures a fix. […]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Industry Observation.
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Chilling out with Volvo
Peter Burgess writes:
It all seemed so tempting a couple of months ago. Fly to Munich, drive revised Volvos to Kaprun in Austria, sleep in igloos then the next day take the new XC60 R Design out onto a frozen lake for some extreme driving.
Yet by the time we’d taken two gondolas up to 2,500m […]
Posted: January 26th, 2010 under On Launch.
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Porsche ‘minimum spend’ scam exposed
Dan Trent writes:I may have alluded to the fact I’ve been known to spend time on the Porsche car configurator occasionally. Yes, tragic, I realise. But a foray on there the other day revealed an interesting fact. It’s literally impossible to spec a Porsche on there and not add at least £15K to the […]
Posted: January 26th, 2010 under Wild Wild Web.
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Ken Block’s mission: turn America on to hot hatches
Dan Trent writes:
How we snigger at the Americans and their simplistic tastes in cars. After all, if it hasn’t got a seven-litre V8 they’re not interested, right? And we all know they can only drive in straight lines.
Um, well, Ken Block might just be on the brink of changing all that. He could well […]
Posted: January 26th, 2010 under Industry Observation.
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Autosport Show 2010
By Ryan McLean, guest blogger
Autosport International is ‘The Racing Car Show’, so I took a trip up to the NEC in Birmingham last Saturday to see what all the fuss is about.
It turns out there is plenty to whet the appetite of car fanatics. I’ve put together a selection of some of the […]
Posted: January 25th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Mercedes gets Smart, upgrades ForTwo CDI
cj hubbard writes:
Fair to say I’m not the biggest fan of our Smart ForTwo CDI long termer. This is such a well established fact in the office that Dan even bought me a Lego ‘generic city car’ for my birthday last week, saying this would allow me to smash a Smart up at will… Comes […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under Long Termers.
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Car exec spotter’s guide
Pic (c) Citroen/N. ZwickelDan Trent writes:On a car launch it’s established practise to wheel out various execs, engineers and experts involved in the car’s production for we hacks to talk to over dinner and eke out the essential inside intel. And picking out who does what from the usual on stage line-up as they’re […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under On Launch.
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