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Public Transport: Efficiently Getting You Most Of The Way Home
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I hate airport parking for its criminally high cost and the risk of terrible things happening to my pride and joy while it’s left alone. Also, If I have to drive after a flight it means I can’t relax on the plane with a couple of beers. To avoid this inconvenience afflicting our recent vacation…
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Icelandic Odyssey: Air-Conditioning, 49 Seats, Anywhere.
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When you rock up in the campsite there’s always somebody smugly BBQing outside their Prevost, looking down their nose at the massed ranks of Fleetwoods and Winnebagos as the evening sun glints off the gleaming chrome of their retirement land-yacht. In those situations what you really need is a locomotive horn to break the hickory-smoke…
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The Carchive: The '79 Volvo 260 Range
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As we put another tiring, prickly week behind us, let’s take a quick break from all that is new and surprising in the world and relax with something old and familar. Join me as I squint at today’s ever so slightly out of focus document from The Carchive. After last week’s look at a Triumph…
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The Carchive: The Bedford HA Van
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With the sun ploughing through solid diagonal bars of rain like some great biblical battle of the elements, It’s time to sit in my steamy old Audi and ponder once again on the subject of cars long forgotten. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last week we were looking at a product of Chrysler Europe, seasoned…
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Click For Affirmation That Good Things Still Happen.
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If you guys think along the same lines as me, and I’m pretty sure you do, this story will blow your mind. It all started when a guy from Ipswich alerted the forumites of the esteemed Autoshite.com as to the existence and imminent sale of a Ford Sierra. Not just any Sierra, but the virtually…
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Bargain Corner #2: ’01 Ford Mondeo
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Depreciation is a savage phenomenon. The way some cars lose value after first leaving the showroom often takes the form of a really violent looking curve when charted. In a lot of cases it really doesn’t take very long at all before a car has lost almost all of the multiple thousands that were spent…
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Modern Art Monday: A Good Sign.
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When you buy something on spec, having read a bit of online text, maybe seen a couple of photos, you know perfectly well that you’re going in without knowing the full story. It all adds to the air of mystery. Mind you, even the most in-depth advertorial combined with exhibition-quality photography can only tell you…
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The Carchive: The Dodge 50 Series Trucks.
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It’s 19:28, I’m watching NCIS on DVD, floating on a cocktail of paracetamol and ibuprofen and surrounded by ample supplies of three-ply tissues. Much of my face is red raw through repeated nose-blowing endeavours, I’m deaf in my right ear and the room spins gently whenever I raise my eyes anywhere above the horizon. Welcome…
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Bargain Corner#1: '95 Citroen Xantia
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With everybody being urged to eat healthily to kerb an obesity crisis, cars are currently selling markedly better than hotcakes in the UK. With credit being so readily available the dealership order-books are bulging and suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand. This is great news for the economy. It’s great news for the…
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Diecast "Delights": A Trabant 601 in 1:18 Scale
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For years and years I had wanted a model of a Trabant to add to my collection of “real world” cars. I had vague recollections of seeing them for sale in model emporiums at prices just beyond what I could afford in my formative years as a collector, but I never made that stretch. And…
