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Everyone loves new cars. They are brilliantly efficient, remarkably comfortable, and incredibly safe. Except they’re also kinda dull. Not in performance, mind you – modern cars drive really well. But at the risk of pointing out the emperor’s new clothes, there aren’t many (any?) outstanding designs. Sure, you could point to those finely sculpted exotic […]

After owning a 2005 Subaru Liberty with 350,000km clocked, it wasn’t worth fixing when the transmission started playing up on me. The car still drove, just a bit rough. Having our first child in January of 2021, we decided that we should buy another Liberty, as I’m familiar with the Subaru line-up and we know […]

A vast majority of reviews of the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLA45 make note of the fact that it’s a bit of a pointless Frankenstein of a car. Why would anyone want a small SUV, but more hot hatch on stilts, that can smash out 0–100km/h in 4.3 seconds? Well, picture this – you want something high-tech, […]

I’ve been called several things in the past couple of months – pimp, gangster, dealer, copper, airport limo driver… Yep, you’ve guessed it. I’ve bought a 300 SRT. When Chrysler decided in late 2021 to pull operations out of Australia, the 300 SRT – arguably the last affordable V8 performance sedan in Australia – became […]