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Alfa, Beta, Delta, ta-ta
The Internet of Cars exploded on the announcement of the Alfa Romeo Giulia. After many, many false starts – whether from the company’s executives or sheer projections of misty-eyed fans, Alfa Romeo is really making a come-back. Really. And in the confident style that can only be described as “a bit Italian”. They didn’t just show off the new Giulia as something of a BMW 3 Series rival, they went…
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Rationally
TK is not a fan of Peugeot. The 205 GTi may well be the bee’s knees, but TK hasn’t tried it; so whatever. Of the ones that have been sampled, the 107 was probably the pick of the litter (can’t resist a feline reference here!), but that wasn’t a “real” Peugeot, since it was a Toyota Aygo with a big Gallic grille. The other one has to be the RCZ, which was pretty good, if not for resembling like…
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Number One, a 5th of that
Do not trust the statistics
Here’s an old news that the news maker would be happy to repeat: Toyota is 2014’s top-selling brand in Singapore. Over the previous year, sales has jumped 57 per cent to hit 5,431 cars. This is big news because in previous years, eight of them, to be exact, Toyota was playing second (even third) fiddle to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Some say that this hints at normalcy returning to a…
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Speaking volume
It’s tough being an upstart. While McLaren isn’t a newbie in motorsports, it hasn’t been in the business of building cars you and I can walk into a showroom to bring home after being relieved of a sizable chunk of cash, assuming you have quite a lot of those lying around.
When you objectively look at McLaren, the maker of orange road cars, it is rather praiseworthy.
Of course you really have to…
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Time traveller It has been an age since the last time TK mustered a posting. Well, here's hoping that it was worth the wait.
Chief of engagement
On 1 April 2015, which is always a good day for key appointments to start work, being April’s Fool day and all, Hyundai will get a new head for its R&D department. Albert Biermann was once the VP of engineering at BMW’s M division and, according to Autocar UK, who’s probably quoting a press release from somewhere, the Korean car maker has vowed its cars to “lead their respective segments for…
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Horses for causes
Americans, I was once told, put sugar in their Coke Light. That does not make any sense to me. But the same can be said of why there are people who eat bugs. As well as motoring oddities like the BMW X4.
Essentially, the BMW X4 is the sportier version of the X3 Sports Utlity Vehicle and let’s disregard BMW’s insistance to call its SUVs “SAVs”, short for Sports Activity Vehicle. Perhaps a more…
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When a spade is a spanner
When a spade is a spanner
Another day, another quick browse at the online used car portal. You can learn a lot from visiting the site as frequently as TK does. Like how prices of used car behave like pump prices: prices shoot up at the first hint of an increase for new car / crude oil, but takes an age to come down even when new cars or crude oil have become cheaper.
Equally amusing is how cars are categorised. The…
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For the love of Speciale
For the love of Speciale
Of all the car brands, Mini is perhaps the most guilty of slapping on run-out specials long before the targeted model was running anywhere at all.
Mini, the three-door version, had “limited editions” for as nearly as long as it was in circulation. There were cars named after roads in London, plugging some old racing success and even somebody’s wedding (okay, so it was The Royal Wedding). Mind…
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Mid-life crisis
The turrets are turned on Lexus today and the LS400 was Genesis. That’s “genesis” as on the beginning of Toyota’s luxury brand, not the offshoot of Hyundai.
What was it about the LS400?
It did what Honda did with the NSX to Ferrari. But instead of promising to be the best supersports car, it was just the best luxury car in the world.
The fastidious level of attention to quality was distinctly…
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Sucker for the swan
On the soapbox called the Mondial de l’Automobile 2014, aka, the Paris motor show, a Mitsubishi executive, announced that the Evo will not be replaced. This marks the end of our collective learning of the Roman numerals (from II-X, which is more than what the series of Superman movies did for us).
You could say the its demise had something to do with how the world has simply moved on from the…
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A Japanese Englishman
Mulling over the subject of mixed descent, then promptly taking a detour, TK arrives at a rather special little creature. The Mazda MX-5, aka Miata. Touted as the world’s favourite sports car, the Mazda celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and it’s a car with a most fascinating story.
The MX-5 may be of Japanese origin, but its inspiration was English, something along the lines of the Lotus…
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Badge swap The joint-venture we know as Renault-Nissan Alliance is really blurring the lines of convention. Where does a Nissan end and a Renault begin?
Badge swap The joint-venture we know as Renault-Nissan Alliance is really blurring the lines of convention. Where does a Nissan end and a Renault begin?
Ferraris are interesting and almost always visually stunning. Each one is different from the other.…
Ferraris are interesting and almost always visually stunning. Each one is different from the other. It stands on the other end of something the more mainstream passenger brands are.
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Freehanded
No more peeking at Facebook on-the-fly, no stabbing at the smart phone for Google Maps. The motion was made in Parliament yesterday to ban motorists from using their mobile devices on the road. Was it even legal before?
The rationale seems clear enough. Drivers aren’t driving anymore. They get behind the wheel, slip the shifter to “D” and motor along while checking their emails, sneaking SMS…
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Street-going racing car?
Today’s TK entry comes on the back of a very slow Internet connection.
Normally, this should mean that we should all shut down the computers, head out of the office and drive something exciting. But since it’s the day after a long weekend, we all need to stay around and look busy, staring at the spinning ball on the monitor and daydream a little.
After spending the weekend watching the Formula 1…
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