Archive for April, 2008

Rotary Roar

Me and older supercar wannabe’s usually gel quite well - I associate with cars that could have been so much and tried in lots of ways to compete with the big guys, even though really they were out of reach. This is why I would usually like cars like the mazda RX7 - they would [...]

Barcellona Chicos

I spent this coming weekend last year in barcellona - it was a nice trip with plenty of nice chicos walking around in the sun - all good. The hire car was a chevrolet kalos - pretty appalling car that literally did little good other than to vaguely deposit us from a to b at [...]

Alfa Lover Comes back

Last week I sold a newish (about 2002) alfa romeo to a customer, who was a raving alfa romeo fan. Apparently his second car from alfa he adored the styling, build quality and looks - “to hell with the price” was his exact words. I kinda didn’t like that alfa exactly - in fact I [...]

Cars in the UK vs Cars in the US

If you were to compare the two - UK born cars and US born cars - which do you think would be most likely to win - you may have to choose a range of playing fields to compare fairly - but say you had a “fastest”, a “most economic”, a “lightest car”, a “least [...]

How many dogs?

I think I posted about how to dump mysql databases before but cant seem to find the old post now - nevermind, while I was searching through some old mysql dumps last week I found one full of dog names - pretty random as that is I thought hey why not take a [...]

Expanse of Cars Online

Trading cars for 20 years teach’s you a lot about business, changing times, people, cars, what happens when, seasons and moods of buyers. Since the Internet came along however this is not as easy to gauge as it adds a whole new complexity to trading cars. Whether you buy from a big car marketplace or [...]