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!
Dear Doc, I am now on my fifth Kia Sportage, a new model level 3 1.7 CRDi 2WD, on an 18 plate. All of them have been brilliant, regularly long hauling copious quantities of wine and beer back from Germany. With regard to traffic lights, you have really touched on a nerve with […]
My Mazda is over 22k miles now, but I doubt that I will be replacing it any time soon, given that Mazda discontinued the 2 diesel a while back. Secondly, your mention of tyres recently led me to contemplate the forthcoming replacement of my front pair, where tread is getting low. My car is shod […]
Dear Doc, First a Mitsubishi Shogun update ñ all is well, and we are very pleased with the vehicle. We are considering replacing our Audi A6 2.0 TDI, with 190,000 on the clock, with a Skoda Scout 2.0 TDI, possibly spending up to £10,000. We are aiming for the youngest car under that price limit […]
With my local Mazda franchise gone, and the excellent CX-5 that we have corresponded about previously about to enter its sixth year, I have been looking around at alternatives. Two at the top of my list are the Hyundai Tucson and the Kia Sportage. Both with the 1.7 diesel engine and twin-clutch automatic transmission. Also, […]
I have a 2010 Skoda Fabia 1.6 TDI that’s been in the garage a couple of times recently, due to flashing glow plug lights. My garage’s computer says it’s an EGR failure. To be fair to them, they’ve tried the cheap fix first (changing the EGR solenoid), but I’ve just had to limp home seventy […]
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