Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Korea Achievement


Everybody on the entire planet by now knows that the Koreans don't make crap cars any more. In fairly recent memory, Seoul went from producing either older cars under license, or based heavily on old, proven, cheap technology, to being able to confidently vie for your money alongside established Western brand names. Today it's even got to the point where some of the latest gear by Kia and Hyundai is the kind of stuff you'd actually almost hanker for. The new Kia Sportage is quite a convincing package, the Hyundai iX35 is in the same ball-park.

It's time now for Hyundai to get a bit brave, start pumping weights, and hit the market where it hurts.

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Driven #7:- F01 BMW 730d Sport



It was with some anticipation that I took the key from my work colleague.

BMWs recent history has been somewhat irksome to the enthusiast. When I worked for them, in sales, there were certain core values that we were told were cast in stone for all eternity. This was reinforced whenever we went on BMW UK training courses, where official guys from the firm who were paid to know what they were doing, and to say the right thing, would force the point home until it started to bleed.