Ambitious But Rubbish

So recently I was down at my Audi garage getting my diverter valve replaced, which is a common ailment for the first-generation 2.0T FSI engine (not to be confused with the second-generation 2.0 TFSI engine) and there in the showroom there was a new car which I hadn’t seen before, the A7. To be honest [...]

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I am unfortunate enough to have gotten this loaned to me while my A4 is in the shop with a blown diverter valve (common with the 2.0T engine). It’s an absolutely hopeless vehicle. To quote Jeremy Clarkson, I have only one word to describe this, it starts with S and ends with T, and it [...]

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While my own Quattro A4 is undergoing maintenance I’ve been loaned a 2010 A4 FrontTrak, the front-wheel drive version of the Audi saloon. I’ve driven current-model A4s before also while getting some work done, but this was the first time I got to keep the car overnight and got to develop a feel for it. [...]

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Ever wonder why all Ferrari reviews sound like a love letter by a young boy to the dame to whom he’s just lost his v-card? According to Chris Harris of EVO magazine, that’s because Ferrari tunes and optimizes the car to make damn sure the review is going to be that positive. It’s been rumored [...]

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After months of painstaking research and many a night in the past 3 weeks spent trying to make up my damn mind, I finally took my decision, and I’m now an Audi A4 Quattro owner. This was a bit of an unexpected result, when I think back on the torturous process that really started late [...]

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Here’s an interesting little comparison which is just about all I can think about until Wednesday morning. In the market for a new car I’ve narrowed things down to 2 candidates: an Audi A4 Quattro and a BMW 325i. They’re both 2006s, both have similar mileage, both have the sport and premium packages, a manual [...]

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The new BMW 1-Series, as offered in Canada now, isn’t just another car. In fact it’s not just a car, it’s far better than that… it’s a plaything. I mean, what’s wrong with a plaything? It’s simply something you use not because you’ll learn something new, not because it makes you necessarily a better person, [...]

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There’s been a Volvo C70 in my parking spot for the past 4 months now. I don’t drive it very often, mostly because due to the location of my workplace I get home faster in the evenings by taking the bus, but I have put a few hundred kilometers on it and am starting to [...]

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My mother ended up buying that Volvo C70 mentioned in a previous thread. I took it out for a nice 100-km spin yesterday. I’m impressed. Topless First, the roof. It’s downright sexy! I know that Europeans and Brits have seen tons of these metal-folding-roof cars around for years, but they’re fairly new to North America [...]

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