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China’s favourite car brand
Why are there so many Buicks in Shanghai?
29. 04. 2013., 16:52 | Comments:As far as I can see, you could even sell a rusty pot to the Chinese as long as it's got the Buick emblem slapped on. The brand is hot around here. And I've come across some interesting cars wearing that badge.
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Things a car nut should do
in his spare timeMy favourite free car games for iPad
29. 04. 2013., 06:45 | Comments:Driving is best if we have a good car, no speed limits, and we won’t die if we lose control in a curve.
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BMW + chick: works every time
27. 04. 2013., 13:17 | Comments:Marking the tenth anniversary of the partnership between BMW and Paris Photo the Bavarians have made a rather unusual photo series evoking the heyday of film noir. The pictures, taken by photographer Uwe Düttmann, were shot in a Hollywood studio and on set.
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The Chinese Rolls is not for sale
27. 04. 2013., 07:23 | Comments:The FAW’s presentation of the Hongqi luxury cars must have been inspired by the design of the Bentley and Rolls booth. One small element has obviously escaped the attention of the copycats, though: they speak English at said companies.
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Like a psychedelic trip
At the end of the memory lane: Ed Roth
26. 04. 2013., 05:51 | Comments:We opened the door and stumbled on mind blowing cars. The vehicles we came across were no ordinary custom cars, but legends.
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Scoop photos of the Merc S-Class
25. 04. 2013., 17:31 | Comments:A black car was spotted by one of our readers in Germany, it was the new S-Class Mercedes debuting in a few weeks. He managed to get some pretty good shots, many of them showing the interior.
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Chinese car names at the
Shanghai Motor ShowLet's to some amateur decoding
19. 04. 2013., 18:35 | Comments:Our colleague, Tibi Papp is just roaming the exhibition pavillions at the Shanghai Motor Show. Meanwhile Robert Winkler, another colleague of ours who has been studying Chinese for a year now tries to make sense of the Chinese characters.
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The British diplomat’s Trabant
The East-German car on a British mission
19. 04. 2013., 07:42 | Comments:It’s just a Trabant with some green paint splashed on its shabby body, with a set of plastic five-euro hubcaps on its rusty wheels. It could be any old bugger’s car from the neighbourhood, but blimey, it wears diplomatic plates…
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The uglier but better second-generation
Don't buy a car too soon after it's introduced
12. 04. 2013., 05:40 | Comments:Never buy with your eyes. Use your brain, see the algorithms in car production, have patience. Leave fashion to the stupid, enjoy that you’ve got the brains.
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Which way to Jay Leno’s Garage?
Jay Leno part 1.
06. 04. 2013., 09:57 | Comments:There are places for which you would throw out half of the items on your completed bucket list, if you could actually visit it. Jay Leno’s garage is one of them.
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Tin Lizzie’s uptown cousin
In 1927 one of Ford’s ads run like this: “Everything you want or need in A Modern Automobile”, which means that we got weak and soft by now. We’ve got to face it: not only were those Fords tough back in the day. So were our great-grandfathers.