Latest Brown Car Guy Update 12022020
This week I’m testing this Peugeot 508 GT – it’s the 1.6 petrol with 225bhp. Love the exterior and interior styling, what do you make of it? #BCGDaily
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This week I’m testing this Peugeot 508 GT – it’s the 1.6 petrol with 225bhp. Love the exterior and interior styling, what do you make of it? #BCGDaily
The father of the McLaren F1, Gordan Murray’s futurist concept is a single-seat EV autonomous pod-like tiny car – what do you make of this? Clever or naff? Meanwhile electric cars are a kind of ‘nightmare’ for 51% of parents who regularly take their small children out in a car to put them to sleep. It doesn’t work as well in silent EVs, so Nissan has come up with the ‘Dream Drive Lullaby’.
I’ve been checking out the magnificent beast that is the new 2021 Cadillac Escalade online – it’s gargantuan, futuristic and pretty awesome. I love it and would love to do a review. I’ve driven previous versions and it reminded me of an amazing gangster / heist / secret rendezvous mini movie we produced back in 2016 with the Escalade for Cadillac Middle East when I was at Motoring Middle East. Watch that video here
What’s it like to organise Dubai’s biggest car meet, and why I stopped. Put up an article on when car meets go bad on DriveTribe (link below), in response to hooliganism at the Coffee and Cars meeet in Houston recently. We grew our Dubai meet to crazy proportions and then suddenly stopped. Find out why! Read full article here
What’s it like to completely lose it at the wheel of a BMW M2 Competition at Yas Marina Circuit. Well lose it in one sense. I have spun on track – I confess. Plus we must be wary of and stop demonising the car. See M2 Instagram video I mentioned by clicking here.
If you drive a performance or luxury German car such as a BMW, Mercedes or Audi, you’re an asshole – according to an actual study! Do you agree? Let me have your feedback!
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Are electric cars really the only answer, or are there alternatives we should also be considering? Could goverments be making a costly mistake with draconian legislation to ban petrol, diesel and hybrid cars?
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As a pukka petrolhead, this sounds like terrible news. The UK has brought forward its deadline on the ban on selling petrol and diesel cars – including hybrid cars! Previously the date was set as the year 2040, however that’s now been revised to just 15 years from now – 2035.
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