Popular culture has an additive personality. The two main addictions being the lives of celebrities and the power of a brand. Sometimes a name or a few words is more than enough to make hordes of people rabid with excitement, Britney Spears, Coca Cola, Ford Focus RS – all have their status as [...]
Andy Warhol once said that art is “what you can get away with”. Art is one of the areas of our culture that divides opinion more than anything else and finds its way into more and more of our buildings and products. One man’s love of the Gherkin building in London is polarised [...]
Taking care of our automobiles is a very important and expensive enterprise. One aspect of that care is buying tires when necessary. While it can be easy to ignore this particular maintenance issue, letting tires deteriorate or grow bald to save a dime can be a costly error.
If money is a true [...]
Lets just face the facts about the dangers of riding a motorcycle, a motorcycle crash does not happen very often, just about 4 percent of all crashes with vehicles are a motorcycle crash. This is a very low percentage but it does lead to 10 percent of all deaths in traffic. You are [...]
I used to work with a guy who told me that his wife worked for Colt Cars in Cirencester England. I remember at the time saying to him “Who the hell are they!” Which I suppose was a bit impolite but I thought I knew most car manufacturers and had never heard of [...]
A recent TV commercial for the Volkswagen Polo featured a singing dog that was strutting around full of self-confidence whilst it was a passenger in the Polo but as soon as it left the car for different surroundings it became a nervous wreck. The closing caption of the commercial read “Polo Confidence.”
I guess [...]
There was a time when Ford had a pretty awful reputation in the UK. Whilst there can be no doubt that Ford have always enjoyed excellent sales figures their cars have sometimes had a reputation for having irritating faults and niggles. The problem which people seemed to experience the most was poor starting.
I [...]
Travelling abroad and seeing the world is a great thing – driving abroad…less so. Still, if you choose to take your car, rather than booking a cheap airport transfer, there are all kinds of strange things that you’ll see…
If you hate musical car-horns, you’ll love Greece!
Multi-tone horns are illegal in Greece, so if [...]
Make no mistake about it; being behind the wheel of a lorry for the first time is hugely intimidating. No matter how many years you have been driving a car for, nothing can prepare you for the sheer number of controls, the view and the responsibility you need to get a handle on [...]
I had to sell my Jaguar, and I wasn’t happy. Well, would you be, after you’d spent so much time and effort into selecting the Jaguar that was right for you? It’s sod law really, I was given an excellent bonus from work because I’d met and exceeded our annual sales quota. I [...]
