When you own a fourteen year old car the six monthly Warrant Of Fitness, road worthiness inspection, means a little apprehension. Anything major means the sums don’t add as the repairs rapidly exceed the value of the car! The Mighty Uno, now up to 226,000km, got thru with
Eurocarblog have some (supposedly official) Fiat Trepiuno 500 interior sketches and some unofficial, but wonderful, Trepiuno Abarth concept sketches. The Abarth would be an awesome machine and I can see the standard Trepiuno being popular, petrol hit $1.67/Litre today… Fiat 500 - Interior & Abarth sketches - www.
It’s an Aussie Icon: Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars........ What will the Aussies make of this? Could GM be considering selling Holden? - Autoblog Could GM be considering selling Holden? - Autoblog
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''We've poured you a beer" ''We've saved you a spot on the beach” “So where the bloody hell are you?" From this part of the world it’s rather hard to understand why this Aussie tourist promotion has provoked much
It probably has everything you’d ever want in a car but I think these options should be offered…
Will the Fiat Grande Punto be added to the “small cars that rescued Fiat” list? Try as they might to expand their range it seems Fiat’s health seems to rely on a strong selling small car. Will Grande Punto’s sales see it added to the list small car
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I can’t pretend the drive ( red map route) to Wellington for the Pat Metheny Trio concert was an economy run but I had the Etrex GPS running all the time so it was interesting to see how the numbers added up. I matched the traffic flow, running at the
The solution offered for tackling congestion in Auckland seems to be charging for something without offering a viable alternative. My commute (blue line) is 23km each way, takes 35 – 40 minutes and costs about $60/week ($12/day). That’s the total cost of running, registering & maintaining the mighty
Can’t beat the sound of Aurelio Lampredi’s finest… Car Magazine (U.K.), Jan 2006, talking about the new Honda Civic 2.2 i-CDTi SE... "The search for sportiness plus the desire to cut weight also explains the lack of sound deadening, but unless Honda can workout a
Alfa have a choice, spend on advertising or build this. They may be going to make the right decision. Build the beautiful 8 Competizion? - www.eurocarblog.com
I just received the January Car Magazine (U.K.), off the slow boat, and in his “From the Drawing Board” column Stephen Bayley discusses the design of the new Fiat Grande Punto among others…. * Chrysler 300C: “Designer Ralph Gilles has drawn a car of fine proportions and imposing presence” * Porsche
Made me think… * Strange Laws - The Dilbert Blog * “The sentence for attempted murder should be the same as the sentence for successful murder” * The problem with "global warming" - Seth's Blog * Global is good * Warm is good. * Even greenhouses are good places. * How can "
