Archive for 'On the Road'
Nissan Z? On track? In the rain? Are you mad?
Pic by Justin CoutureDan Trent writes:I’ve always considered the Nissan Z cars to be fun but rather blunt tools. All macho posturing but perhaps lacking that final bit of finesse you’d find in a Cayman or Boxster. I was dead wrong as it turns out! Nothing shows up a car’s class – or lack […]
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under On the Road.
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Nissan 370Z? On track? In the rain? Are you mad?
Pic by Justin CoutureDan Trent writes:I’ve always considered the Nissan Z cars to be fun but rather blunt tools. All macho posturing but perhaps lacking that final bit of finesse you’d find in a Cayman or Boxster. I was dead wrong as it turns out! Nothing shows up a car’s class – or lack […]
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under On the Road.
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Driving the Mercedes ‘Beetle’
Dan Trent writes:Driving old cars is always an experience. And the three rear-engined Mercedes I drove for the ‘Did Mercedes invent the Beetle?’ story were all marvellous things and brilliant fun to drive. The 170H – the most modern of the three – was the most refined and easy to drive. And the 150H […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 under On the Road.
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Nothing back to front about this old Merc
Dan Trent writes:Over three-quarters of a century has passed since this dinky little rear-engined Mercedes was first shown at the Berlin motor show. Driving it in LA recently was huge fun and a massive privilege too. Sure, I love a fast, sporty car as much as anyone. And with 26hp and a 57mph top speed […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 under On the Road.
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Wind in the hair … and rain in my face
Pic by snap2.co.ukDan Trent writes:God did it pour down at the Renaultsport trackday at Silverstone last week. And Silverstone in the wet is very slippery, as a couple of unfortunate Clio owners learned to their cost on the seemingly innocuous kink that leads onto the pit straight. Or, as it turned out, straight into […]
Posted: August 11th, 2010 under On the Road.
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Green wellies - they’re the new racing boot
Dan Trent writes:You may well have noticed the MSN Cars blog has gone a bit off-road crazy of late and you could be mistaken for thinking our (OK, my) racing bootees have been swapped for green wellies on a permanent basis. Not so! Though I have to confess, matters like axle articulation and diff-locks […]
Posted: August 3rd, 2010 under On the Road.
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G-Class - video evidence of grrr!
Dan Trent writes:No, I’m not done wittering on about Mercedes G-Wagens yet! Or G-Classes as I’m officially meant to call them. Pah, to me the G-Wagen will always be the G-Wagen. Anyway, full first drives and photo features from my trip round California are now up on the main MSN Cars site. And if that’s […]
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under On the Road.
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About that Panamera…
cj hubbard writes:
I’m not sure you really want to buy a Porsche Panamera in this colour:
Don’t get me wrong – I think it looks great. But after just a single evening pootling about in it I’m genuinely quite alarmed at the reaction it gets.
In stark contrast to something like the Maserati GranCabrio, people – chavs […]
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under On the Road.
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Maserati GranCabrio: high-speed jam transport
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The Cholmondeley Pageant of Power…
If you’ve seen the gallery report, you’ll know this is kind of a northern Festival of Speed. And since it’s right on Bentley’s doorstep in Cheshire, one was at risk of feeling a bit of a poor relation turning up in anything that didn’t approach a £100k sum. […]
Posted: July 27th, 2010 under On the Road.
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Mercedes Goodwood Extravaganza
Peter Burgess writes:
Now the dust has settled at Goodwood, it’s time to recap on my rather incredible 36 hours based around the Festival of Speed. It was all at the behest of Mercedes-Benz, which this week surpassed Audi as the world’s number two luxury car brand.
It started on the Friday evening at […]
Posted: July 14th, 2010 under On the Road.
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