Honda Civic Type R GT Pack
R is for red hot – the much anticipated Honda Civic Type-R makes its return writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? The new Honda Civic Type R is powered by the most extreme and high-performing engine in the model’s history and it is also the fastest-accelerating front-wheel-drive car on the market. Who is it aimed at? Honda is a company synonymous with reliability, well-built quality and engineering, but every once in a...
Twitter a decade on ….
We look back at which car companies were first to embrace twitter writes Geraldine Herbert On March 21, 2006 Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet and ten years on some 500 million tweets are sent out each day, adding up to close to 200 billion per year. However Twitter is only number three in the social network charts and trails behind Facebook (1.5 billion) and Facebook-owned Instagram (400 million). To celebrate ten years we look...
OPC versus ST …It’s battle of the pocket rockets
Both are packing a real punch but which has that knockout blow to be crowned champ of super minis? asks Geraldine Herbert In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I have always had a soft spot for the Opel Corsa OPC – it was the first car I drove around the Nurburgring ring. At over 20 kilometres long, 300 metres of altitude change and 170 corners this legendary racetrack is considered the toughest, most dangerous...
Mercedes C-Class Coupé C220d
If it’s style you’re looking for, slip into the new C-Class Coupé which has everything you’d expect from Mercedes, writes Geraldine Herbert What is it? There are your performance cars like Ferraris and Porsches and there are luxury cars like Bentley and Aston Martin and then there are the coupes – athletic without being muscle-bound, exquisitely curvy but not racy and aggressive looking, and never menacing....
Supercars of the Geneva Motor Show 2016
As the doors of Europe’s most important motor show of the year opened in Geneva a new batch of supercars was unleashed writes Geraldine Herbert Bugatti Chiron The successor to the world’s fastest production car the Bugatti Chiron was unveiled. It can reach 100km/h in an incredible 2.5 seconds and has a top speed in excess of 420km/h. The Chiron replaces the Veyron, which set the record for the world’s fastest car and is...
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