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Ich bin ein Berlina: Lancia 2000 Sedan 27 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
So it turns out the Lancia 2000 Sedan – or Berlina to give it its rightful Italian name – is going to feature in the new Hunt and Lauda epic, Rush. I discovered as much on Friday night having seen the...
Save it from the ‘Banger Boys’: Peugeot 604 23 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
There’s perhaps one single line in the eBay ad for this Peugeot 604 that should see you reaching down the back of your sofa for some loose change. Quite simply, it reads, ‘will be given to the banger ...
From France with Love (via Germany): Citroën C6 22 Aug 2013 | 01:13 am
Am I the only Citroën C6 fan in the UK to have missed this German TV ad? How come YouTube – the world’s second biggest search engine – has failed to notify me of its existence? It’s very quick to sugg...
Cool as Pug: Peugeot 505 GTi 21 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
You’ve got precisely ten seconds to find a cooler car for sale on eBay right now. Back in 1989, that’s the time it would have taken this Peugeot 505 GTi to reach 60mph and although a few fractions of ...
Whatever happened to…the Renault 14? 20 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
‘La Poire’ – ‘the pear’. It’s hardly a glowing reference for a new car. Still, it could have been worse – Renault may have launched the Renualt 14 as ‘Le Citron’. Now that would have been wrong on so ...
The MINI Clubvan Camper diaries 19 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Last week I was asked to collect a MINI Clubvan Camper from Munich and drive it back home. I charted the journey via Tumblr, but unless you follow my waffle on Twitter, you won’t have seen the updates...
Monkey business: Fiat 500L Trekking 13 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
You have to hand it to the press team at Fiat UK, they do a pretty good job of sourcing locations for UK car launches. Earlier this year the 500L was unveiled at Legoland. And then recently, they chos...
Glazed and Confused: Citroën C4 Picasso 5 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Citroën has a reputation for innovation and creativity. Thinking outside the box, or blue-sky thinking they call it these days. I tend to think of it as a dash of typical French insouciance, stubbornn...
More Pointless Variable Message Signs 31 Jul 2013 | 09:09 pm
A recent article by @MajorGav and some subsequent banter on Twitter made me laugh. Nothing unusual in that. Then over the weekend we had a journey that made me cross. Nothing unusual in that either. B...
Blueprint: Ford Fiesta ST 29 Jul 2013 | 09:51 pm
Fifteen minutes ago I left the Ford Fiesta ST at Reading station. There’s a certain romance attached to saying goodbye to a loved one at a railway station. It’s all very Brief Encounter. I don’t mind...
