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Used car review: Honda Jazz 1.4 CVT (2002) and 1.2 (2011)

31. 07. 2014., 10:21 | Comments:
- Tibor Papp
- András Stump
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We are familiar with the Honda Jazz, yet we haven't had a used car review until now. To make up for the delay, here's a double take at the topic.
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Features
Porsche, deer, speed

Hitting a deer on a race track

30. 07. 2014., 09:47 | Comments:
- Zoltan Sipos
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The deer drew the short straw this time - the poor thing basically vaporized. Watch at your own risk!
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Features
Bitten by the ZelectricBug

VW Beetles for the 21st century

29. 07. 2014., 09:45 | Comments:
- Anita Wohl
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Here’s one of the most iconic vehicle designs combined with modern electric engine technology.
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Used Cars
Burp in progress

Ford Mustang 5.0HO – 1987

28. 07. 2014., 11:30 | Comments:
- Balazs Rezmanyi
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"I cannot see it," I said. "That red Ford Escort is blocking my view". The third generation Mustang is a simple, cheap car just to entertain you.
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Features
That’s what I call motivation

Trucker in a wheelchair

27. 07. 2014., 10:18 | Comments:
- Zoltan Sipos
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You must be a really dedicated trucker to pull off what this wheelchair-bound driver does on a daily basis.
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V8 sound, diesel economy

Sound booster for diesel cars

26. 07. 2014., 09:29 | Comments:
- Zoltan Sipos
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So you hate the way your diesel Golf sounds, and envy the guy in the old Mustang? Here's something for you!
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New Cars
Bog standard Octavia – is it any good?

Škoda Octavia 1.2 TSI (2014)

25. 07. 2014., 08:08 | Comments:
- Robert Winkler
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Sir Lancelot had the Holy Grail, Mytyl had the Bluebird of Happiness. As for us, we yearn for entry level cars. If there is a model I really like I won’t rest until I can drive it in its most basic specification.
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Features
The Ampera gets the axe

Another one bites the dust

24. 07. 2014., 18:01 | Comments:
- András Stump
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While its stateside twin, the Volt is a hit, Europe gives the Ampera the cold shoulder.
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Features
Some shouldn't drive Mustangs

Drift and burnout fails

24. 07. 2014., 09:27 | Comments:
- Zoltan Sipos
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Three Mustangs fail at drifting and doing burnouts at the same event, at the same spot.
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Features
Bugatti Veyron wannabe for sale

A kid’s drawing come to life

23. 07. 2014., 14:07 | Comments:
- András Stump
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4WD - check. Lots of cylinders - check. Horseshoe-shaped grille - check. What’s wrong with it then?
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Editor

As typical of a long-serving automotive journalist he worked at nearly all of the major printed automotive magazines in Hungary before ending up on the internet. More of the new cartester type, he’s also an automotive engineer by profession. Although he’s the editor in chief
of the mother magazine, totalcar.hu, he loves doubling as a photographer – we sometimes
think he made a mistake when choosing titles. Has a wife and a small daughter.

vehicles

Toyota Avensis 1.6 Liftback (1999)
Honda VT250 FN Xelvis (1994)

Editor

Former car restorer, damper designer, rotary-engine guru and also an automotive engineer, but generally doesn’t talk much about his former activities. András is our mag’s Leatherman tool: when there’s a project no-one would poke with a stick, he’s the one usually assigned to carry it through. When he’s in Hungary, he works 16 hours daily, then every once in a while he disappears from the horizon. Last time he’s been seen in Auckland… Has a huge garage, lives with a girlfriend.

vehicles

Peugeot 504 'Rosie' (1972)
BMW 1602 (1975)
Yamaha FZR1000 Genesis (1988)

Contributing editor

Sipi is a fairy who hangs above us like a huge, ever-smiling, men’s fragrance-smelling umbrella. He can be called anytime, anywhere to lend a helping hand, and he’ll be there in an hour with one of his Transits for sure. A dangerously maniac car collector (the street in front of his house is full of his vehicles), a radio-control and model car freak, Sipos is a Swiss knife made of human flesh. Totalcar is just one job amongst his zillion occupations, but he endears it the most. Lives with a girlfriend and two dogs.

vehicles

Mitsubishi Sigma 3.0 24V (1992)
Mazda 323 TXL 4WD (1990)
4 long-nose Transits (a 4x4 fire engine, a fire department staff car, an ex-Irish ambulance and an extremely oversized panel van, 1980-1984)
Dacia 1300 (1975, being restored)
Ford Capri 2.9i (1982)
Mercedes-Benz 280 SEL 4.5 (1972)
Ford Sierra Tournier 2.9i drift-car (1992)
Mazda 121 4dr (1993)
Suzuki VS1400 Intruder (1989)
Suzuki GSX 750 New Katana (1984)
Kawasaki Z1000 Police (1993)
Aprilia Habana (2000)
Volga M24 wagon (1984)
Ural M62 (1968, in pieces)

Contributing editor

8 years of working for IBM have chiselled Balázs’s English skills to a level inappropriately high for this magazine, but did much to blunt his interest towards office work and computers. Earlier a reader and seldom contributor, also a deeply affected car maniac, he left IBM and joined us for a longer term as a journalist, but he’s back again to making money – at another IT company. Luckily he kept on writing for us and hasn’t dropped his love for photography either.

vehicles

Ford Fiesta XR2i (1991)

Used car review: Honda Jazz 1.4 CVT (2002) and 1.2 (2011)

Hitting a deer on a race track

VW Beetles for the 21st century

Ford Mustang 5.0HO – 1987

Trucker in a wheelchair

Sound booster for diesel cars

Škoda Octavia 1.2 TSI (2014)

Another one bites the dust

Drift and burnout fails

A kid’s drawing come to life