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Latest Brown Car Guy Update 24042020 #BCGDaily
Some interesting surveys out this week seem to point to one conclusion – cars will be back in favour again once this lockdown lifts!
Continue reading “Coronavirus Could Make Cars Cool Again!”Money No Object – pick a fantasy three-car garage that you would have to keep for the rest of your life. It was a social media lockdown question I posed on my Facebook feed. Seeing as I have a lot of car fans as friends, the answers were so amazing, they were just too good to let go quietly into the feed archives. So here are the cars that everyone picked, and there are some amazing vehicles on this list. Makes my own list seem very mundane!
Would any of these match your choices? Comment with your Fantasy Forever Three-Car Garage – money no object.
Continue reading “Your Fantasy Forever Three-Car Garage”Following up from yesterday’s conversation with Imthishan about the Cannonball Run record being broken during this lockdown, I try to balance the ethical and moral dillemma of doing what all us petrolheads would love to do, against doing the right and responsible thing – which is to stay home, protect the medical services and save lives. There’s reports of nutters behaving badly on British roads from GEM Motoring Assist.
Continue reading “Speeding During Lockdown & Classic Car Heros Win Lego Models”
Read the feature now DriveTribe.com and comment there what cars I missed or got wrong.
Catching up with my dear friend and founding partner on Motoring Middle East (which he still runs) we extensively cover the Cannonball Run and the latest effort to beat the coast-to-coast record; explain why trucks are cool, as is the Civic Type R, but supercars are not; reveal our least and most favourite BMW SUVs; where in the world to bag a bargain 760bhp Shelby GT 500 Ford Mustang; and I inadvertantly leave instructions for my own funeral arrangements in particular with regards to donuts – of both kind!
Continue reading “Cannonball Run Record Broken & Bargain Shelbys in Lockdown Dubai”
Read now at this link and comment with your view on the topic!
In this video I try to work out how many lives could be saved by the reduction in car use around the world due to the lockdown. It’s pretty staggering, but potentially there are lot more lives that will be saved due to another side-effect of the lockdown. Could they actually outweigh the tragic loss of lives the pandemic is causing? It might need better mathmaticians / statisticians / research analysts than me to figure it out though.
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March 28th this year (2020) saw the 10th anniversary of Geely’s acquisition of storied Swedish car maker, Volvo. It bought the brand from Ford in 2010 for $1.8bn. The Chinese firm Geely, which itself was established in 1986 and only got into Automotive towards the end of the last century in 1997, then left Volvo to get on and do what it does best – build amazingly practical, solid and safe automobiles.
Continue reading “We’ll all be driving Geelys Soon! Here’s why”
Help! It’s lockdown in the UK – what does it mean for a motoring journalist? What can I do now? I have some ideas, but maybe you can help? More quizzes? More Q&A?
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Latest Brown Car Guy Update 16032020 #BCGDaily
Each week a new supercar or hypercar drops with ridiculous horsepower, shocking 0-60
times and absurd price tags – but just how relevant are they? Should manufacturers instead
be focussing on creating more accessible sports cars for those that really love driving and
could afford. Link to my latest DriveTribe feature I mentioned
