Archive for 'In the car park'
Ford Focus price (jaw) drop
Richard Aucock writes:
There’s always excitement here at MSN Cars when we get a Ford in to test. Brilliant dynamics means every one is a peach to drive. Even though the current focus is in its final days, it remains a class-leader.
It doesn’t look particularly special, mind. There’s nothing to tell you it’s […]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Ford Focus price (jaw) drop
Richard Aucock writes:
There’s always excitement here at MSN Cars when we get a Ford in to test. Brilliant dynamics means every one is a peach to drive. Even though the current focus is in its final days, it remains a class-leader.
It doesn’t look particularly special, mind. There’s nothing to tell you it’s […]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Nothing abominable about this Yeti
Dan Trent writes:OK, sorry about the headline. But this blog is going to be cheesy anyway so why not start as I mean to go on. To wit, the delivery driver who dropped off our Skoda Yeti test car yesterday told me "you’re lucky, they’ve given you a fresh tail."
Eh?
He gestured to the white […]
Posted: February 19th, 2010 under In the car park.
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In the car park at the Porsche Centre Silverstone
Dan Trent writes:So, what do visitors to the Porsche Centre Silverstone drive? Muddy cars mainly, more of which later. But a visit there today for a photoshoot in the Panamera we’ve got on test revealed some interesting cars in the car park, and not all of them Porsches. Private plates seem popular too, 911 […]
Posted: February 16th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Time to test those snow driving skills CJ…
Dan Trent writes:I’m not the only one who’s been enjoying a bit of ice driving fun, CJ having just got back from a trip to Finland with Porsche to learn how to drive Porsche Panameras on snow.Thing is, going by the weather outside it looks like he needn’t have bothered with the four-hour flight […]
Posted: February 15th, 2010 under In the car park.
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If this was actually a test car, what would it be?
cj hubbard writes:
I really have got better things to be doing, but this is too good to resist. I arrived at the office this morning to discover a skip occupying one of our usual parking spaces. You can presumably do your own jokes – but leave Skoda out of it, ok? The Czech manufacturer makes […]
Posted: February 8th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Two words: big pimpin’
cj hubbard writes:
Who in their right mind specifies a Porsche Cayenne on 20-inch wheels in white paint?
Well, apparently the press office. But I think the combo is perhaps even less subtle than the white with carbon blades Audi R8 V10 we had in last year. People don’t look at you driving this thing – they […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under In the car park.
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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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E-Class Estate says sensible doesn’t equal boring
Dan Trent writes:Driving back from a long day on the road in a new E-Class Estate last night it was clear someone must have been smiling on me. It was one of those rare occasions where everything - the car, the road and even the tunes shuffled by my iPod - seemed in perfect […]
Posted: January 19th, 2010 under In the car park.
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Snow? Check. Evo? Check.
Dan Trent writes:Hmm, here’s a dilemma. The snow has landed - and how - and I’ve got a four-wheel drive car. A four-wheel drive car with 403hp and track-style rubber. A Land Rover it ain’t. But I’m still tempted to go out and see if I can make it to the office. Glad the […]
Posted: December 18th, 2009 under In the car park.
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