Archive for 'Wild Wild Web'
G-Wagen crash test
Dan Trent writes:It’s a classic from the archives but if you’ve never seen it before this American ad perfectly sums up the whole G-Wagen thing I’ve been wittering on about quite neatly… Thankfully I didn’t actually get to put this claim to the test. But given how solid the car feels it doesn’t seem […]
Posted: May 25th, 2010 under Wild Wild Web.
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AMGs on ice on MSN Him
Dan Trent writes:As you’ll have noticed we’ve all been messing about on snow in some respect or another of late. Peter’s been off with Volvo, CJ with Porsche and me - as I’ve mentioned on occasion - with AMG. The full story on this is now up on the brand new MSN Him channel […]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Wild Wild Web.
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The world’s skiddiest Porsche
Dan Trent writes:Modern Porsches are so good at holding the road if you want some quality skidding you need to take it somewhere cold and snowy, like Finland and find a Frozen lake like our man CJ.Or perhaps pay a visit to the Porsche Centre Silverstone and enjoy some slithering around on their ‘ice […]
Posted: February 19th, 2010 under Wild Wild Web.
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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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I crashed my friend’s Lotus
Dan Trent writes:
Fresh from nearly flipping my Clio I feel this chap’s pain. Out having a go in a mate’s Lotus Elise he was unfortunate enough to spin it and do £3,500’s worth of damage. Ouch. He’s now, as he puts it, “hustling for cash to pay off a power-slide that went badly wrong” […]
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Wild Wild Web.
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Video: Tiny Car vs. Giant Excavator
cj hubbard writes:
Upon seeing the opening still of the below video, you can probably guess what’s going to happen. Except it doesn’t go down quite as you might think.
Water, eh? Strong stuff.
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Pikes Peak video goodness: “‘Fiesta’ Spanish for ‘Crash’”
I do not care that this is an advertisement
You say Countach ‘not ugly’
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Posted: August 6th, 2009 under Wild Wild Web.
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Images not working…
cj hubbard writes:
As you might have notice, most of the images aren’t loading correctly at the moment (we have no idea what voodoo Richard is using to make his work, but rest assured we are trying to find out…).
Hopefully this is just a temporary problem, and normal service will be restored soon.
Posted: July 14th, 2009 under Wild Wild Web.
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You say Countach ‘not ugly’
Dan Trent writes:
It looks like my selection of the Lamborghini Countach as one of our Top 10 Ugly But Fast line up seems to have upset a few of you on the message board! Looks are always a subjective choice and it’s good to hear what you all think so keep the responses coming. In […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Wild Wild Web.
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