Based on a lot of figures that I have no hope of understanding, the Ford Motor Company has posted a profit for 2009 of $454 million after the fourth quarter produced a net income of $868 million. This comes after about four years of losing money by the bucket loads, the last time Ford actually [...]

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‘Blown Muscle
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There are lots of different types of muscle. There’s raw, rippling sinew, bulging, bursting tissue and even pulsating, pulverising pectorals. And then you get proper muscle.
Proper muscle, the kind shady debt collectors will set on your ass, the kind Ving Raimes famously refers to as “Getting Medievil”. The [...]

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The Geneva Motor Show sure will be a busy one for Mazda. Not too long ago it was reported that the new Mazda 5 was slated for a Geneva reveal, now the Mazda 6 facelift for 2010 has been added to the itinerary. To look forward to on the Mazda 6 is the new Mazda [...]

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Konfusing Koleos
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Renault’s Koleos SUV is one of those vehicles that’s fairly easy to overlook. In fact, when it arrived we’d not only completely forgotten about the booking, we nearly didn’t recognise what it actually was!
And yet, it’s actually quite the handsome machine. We had figured it, considering the extent [...]

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I apologise. I take it all back, well most of it. I have called you surrender monkey’s, cheese eating surrender monkey’s, I have made many jokes. I have laughed that all one needs to do to cripple your military power would be to burn down the factories that make your white fabrics, because all you [...]

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Supercar Shaker
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An interlude in the action. A brief pause for a comm’s catchup and some sleep in a busy two-day schedule. There was a lot to get through.
Tomorrow things will be getting serious. Rather than the same old comparisons, we’ve foregone the Porsches and Astons and GT-Rs for something, well, [...]

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The 2010 Geneva Motor Show, held early March will naturally show us many interesting vehicles which hopefully will actually be built. Sadly it is often the case that the most alluring showpieces turn out to be concepts never destined for production. One Geneva reveal that is going into production however is the new Mazda 5.

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Tata, a name that hardly inspires thoughts of performance, great build quality or general motoring pleasure and so far at least I have to say this Indica Vista I.N.I is no different. There are some some nice touches on the Vista as we already knew from the launch but there are also several annoyances.

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Wow. It’s Friday night, been a hard week, weekend has finally arrived. Just the traffic left to deal with, and you’re there. The toughest week of 2010 in the bag.
But you’ve forgotten something important. Unbeknownst to the residents of Jo’Burg, to Gauteng on the whole in fact, national energy provider Eskom is preparing a little [...]

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Updates, facelifts, call them what you want but I think they’re mostly nonsense. When a car gets a facelift absolutely nothing important receives even the merest sniff of an improvement but the grill or headlights get eyeliner. Not that I’m complaining, when cars get facelifted the price of the ‘outdated’ model could drop when essentially [...]

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