Posts Tagged ‘autos’

Whilst catching up on my weekend’s email and news I came across a review for the Mazda CX-9. As I was sat there reading it I couldn’t help thinking that I hadn’t seen much of this Mazda in Kent. Or anywhere before for that matter. There’s a reason for it too.
For some reason, despite the [...]

Didn’t Fiat once occupy the motoring pages for new cars too? Of course they did, only recently their delightful little 500 was picking up all the headlines for design awards and stop-start technology and now there’s rumours floating around about Fiat that involve cars rather than purchasing countries.
Never ones to rest on their laurels, the [...]

So I’ve been reading the results from this years World Car of the Year awards (the VW Golf in case you didn’t know) and I’m a bit bemused by the winner for the Word Car Design of the Year: the new Fiat 500.
Really?
Yes it’s cute but… the other finalists are a baffler too. The Citroen [...]

There’s lots of talk (plenty on this very blog) about whether they’ll be taking the smaller cars that are a success over here in Europe to the States.
Well, now Ford are considering taking a monster version of the Focus to the US markets too, if American markets feedback that they would really really like [...]

You know, it’s funny. Having spent so long paying zero attention to the brand – for reasons discussed before – I can’t seem to escape Lotus lately. 
Yesterday I fell in love with the looks of the Evora and today, I glanced out of the kitchen window while the kettle boiled in the company kitchen to [...]

To me, marketing a car as a sports luxury coupe smacks of trying to hit at too many things – isn’t a coupe something sport like by definition? And, for the price they want, you’d expect the luxury to be pretty standard too. However, I’ll forgive them on this instance. The “them” being Lotus.
Why? Well, [...]