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    There goes your driver’s license

    Clio RS vs. Fiesta ST vs. 208 GTI

    15.10.2013. 09:25| Comments: 
    • András Stump
    • Tibor Papp
    • Zsolt Csikos
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    Let's find out which one the better hot hatch is. Let's do it with the help of a real professional WTCC driver.
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    The swamp of terror

    Used Car Comparison – Audi A3 1.6 (1997), Opel Astra 1.4 Ecotec (1998), Renault Clio 1.4 TechRun (2001), Seat Cordoba 1.4 (2000)

    26.09.2013. 10:09| Comments: 
    • Tibor Bende
    • Zsolt Csikos
    • András Stump
    • Steve Valyi
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    With a budget of 2000 Euros we set out to find a useable car on the second hand market. Of real cars we saw very little but unbelievable horrors cheered up our day.
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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.

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  • Diesel or petrol? Decide now!
  • DGT, as in digital
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  • The Ampera gets the axe

vehicles

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

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.

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vehicles

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

Editor-in-chief

The guy behind the idea of the English-language Totalcar site, the totalcarmagazine.com, also serving as an editor at the Hungarian totalcar.hu , our mother site. Serial collector of sorry old things that have internal combustion engines in them, as a newfound religion, Zsolt is keeping a family under the terror of rust. Being in the business for the best part of the last 19 years, he landed at Totalcar after serving at a huge round of printed automotive magazines. Has a wife, two small(ish) children and a pet rabbit.

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  • Was the original Fiat better than the Lada?
  • Born by mistake
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vehicles

  • Mercedes-Benz 220 D (1973)
  • Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1972, ex-family car)
  • Mercedes-Benz 180 C (1962)
  • Autobianchi Bianchina Panoramica (1966)
  • Steyr-Puch 500 (1957, under construction)
  • Kawasaki Z750 Twin (1978)
  • Yamaha XJ900F (1983)
  • Honda Spacy 250 (1987)
  • NSU OSL 251 (1938)
  • Moto Morini Sbarazzino (1956)
  • Honda SS50 (1971, under construction)

Managing director

Well-known in Totalcar-circles for being able to draft in huge wads of dough in impossible times, we all tolerate Tibby’s sick jokes and horribly nasty remarks day to day. On better days he doubles as a writer too, but his articles always guarantee a hoard of trolls arriving. Never being able to decide between Citroens and Merc’s, presently he owns a Merc. And a BMW. And he bombs us with ads of hydropneumatic Citroens daily. Has a wife and two small children.

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  • Liebhaberstück, schönwetter fahrzeug BMW E28
  • Extreme urban wakeboard on the flooded streets of Budapest

vehicles

  • BMW 518i (1984)
  • Mercedes-Benz 190E 1.8 aut. (1991)

Editor

Self-appointed race-driver (whenever he gets a chance), avid car sports- and sports car-lover, manager of the mother site’s blog, Belsőség, he can always be found in the middle of the noisiest gathering. Steve has had a long-running habit of remodelling his facial hair bi-weekly. A Slovakian citizen but of Hungarian nationality, he lives in Budapest now. Has a wife, two small children and a dog.

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  • It takes a truck to crash this hard. And still survive.
  • Gymkhana, huh?
  • No need for hot air. Advertise like this.
  • The champion who never won
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vehicles

  • Audi A4 1.8 Avant (1996)
  • Toyota Corolla AE86 (1984) - part-owner with Andras Stump
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