Probably motoring's equivalent of Geoff Boycott! He hates factual inaccuracy and avoidance of the fundamental facts of anything. Cars are meant to fulfil a purpose of getting from A-to-B, hopefully enjoyably, comfortably, and elegantly, not to serve as mobile communications and entertainment centres!
Hello Doc. Last Friday evening, I was travelling home along a de-restricted dual carriageway and was held up by some slow moving vehicles in the outside lane at about 45mph. When the lane cleared, I accelerated firmly and, as usual, my Mercedes GL 420 CDI took off with its customary amount of vigour, but only […]
I thought I would forward the latest update to you that I have from the Skoda dealer (Superb service? Maybe not! Issue 349) – a short message saying “We are now on the case that the engine is OK – and the fault is being caused by the turbocharger. We are looking into the parts […]
Dear Doc, After 38 years of driving Citroëns and Peugeots, I have changed to a Subaru, for the simple reason that there is not a suitable match for our caravan in the current Peugeot and Citroën line up! So the Peugeot 4007 has gone, and I now have a new Subaru Outback, and so far […]
Hello Doc An update on my oil-drinking Skoda Superb (see last issue, 349). It went in to the Skoda garage last week, and was examined. No oil leaks were found (I knew that), and nothing else untoward was discovered. We are now in the middle of an oil consumption test. They changed and refilled the […]
Dear Doc, you’ve long been bemoaning the removal of protective bodyside mouldings by car manufacturers in your column for quite some years, so I just wanted to hear your thoughts about the Citroën C4 Cactus, which seems to almost make up for all of the other cars not having them, all wrapped up in one […]
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