Aimed squarely at the compact crossover market, BMW’s new X1 is going to sell well and you’ll be seeing a lot of them close-up – in your rear view mirror. The BMW X1 has new styling and the cabin has […]
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05, 2012
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05, 2012
Merc: Your Model Names Are Like Chinese to Me!
I hate to admit it – because after all I am a car nerd and a bit autistic – but Mercedes-Benz is the only car brand sold on the Western hemispheres of which the great majority of its model names […]
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04, 2012
Fuel economy: Real-world miles per gallon information now available
We’ve all done – got to the end of a long journey and wondered where the fuel has gone. And no you probably haven’t made a miscalculation because the published fuel economy figures which you use for the trip are […]
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04, 2012
Audi S: New models unveiled
It’s a marque no longer seen as the ‘poor man’s BMW’ and now Audi are to cement their leading position with some new ‘S’ models. There will be four added to the Audi S line-up and they’ll have the impressive […]
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04, 2012
Stretching Cars
Saw some interesting news the other day: BMW will soon start production of a 3-Series with a lengthened wheelbase for the Chinese market, the 3-Series LWB – I’ll leave it to you to figure out what the ‘LWB’ stands for. […]
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03, 2012
Downsizing: The Enemy of Sound
It may be that I’m old school and part of a dying breed – and probably somewhat of a nutter too – but the main feature that attracts me to (or repels me from) any car is its noise. I […]