We stayed at the Etap in Mulhouse (France) last night and this morning we visited the National Automobile Museum, aka the Schlumpf Collection. What an incredible collection of cars. I can quite believe that this is the largest collection of Bugattis in the world. The thing that impresses is the sheer number of cars on [...]
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Posted 24 March 2005
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Tuesday 22nd March 2005. Today we popped over to the Nurburgring and visited the rather fabulous museum. There are 3 halls to see, the first shows some of the history of the Ring with lots of cars and motorbikes to see, along with a short cinema presentation. The second hall has a large number of [...]
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Posted 22 March 2005
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Monday 21st March 2005. From Dunkerque we made good time through Belgium to Spa. This in spite of the fact that I had failed to load any maps for Belgium into the sat-nav system Spa is a fabulous place! We stopped for lunch at a cafe near the centre of town, which is where I [...]
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Posted 21 March 2005
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Monday 21st March 2005. I’m driving around Europe with my Dad this week. We arrived at Dover just after nine last night for a 21.30 sailing on the Norfolk Line to Dunkerque. Unfortunately they had no record of our booking – the website had crashed whilst we were booking I had sent email asking if [...]
Martyn and myself seem to have acquired a new car. We now have a Xantia Activa 2-litre turbo. It has a 5-speed manual gearbox, and it’s the same green as the Xantia V6 (and the MB, come to that). I had a very quick test drive when we bought it, but Martyn’s been in charge [...]
OK, there’s been quite a lot of activity on the cars front, especially if I include Big Martyn’s cars in the equation. Until recently we had two and a half cars each. Martyn had a Citroen XM (2 litre turbo, automatic) and a DeLorean and I had a Citroen Xantia (3 litre V6 Exclusive, automatic) [...]
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Posted 28 February 2005
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The Benz was almost completely out of petrol yesterday, so I took the opportunity to fill up with super unleaded (97 octane instead of 95 for standard unleaded). Now the car is much smoother to drive, it seems to go quicker and it’s generally much more pleasant to use. I’m just surprised that upgrading the [...]
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Posted 19 February 2005
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Gosh, I haven’t posted anything here for a while, so theres a bit of catching up to do Let me start with the week before Christmas. Sunday 19th December was my 40th birthday. I booked the following Monday off work and had a completely fabulous weekend with Ruth in Scotland (again!). Looking at recent posts [...]
Last weekend I launched off to Sunny Scotland with the lovely Ruth in Das Loony Mobile (a Mercedes Benz C43 AMG). Scotland is just one of the most gorgeous places you can go to. The trees were changing colour and everywhere was beautiful. We stayed at the Malmaison in Glasgow, which was fabulous. If you [...]
Today I drove the Xantia to work. Yesterday I took the Benz. This morning, I enjoyed the smoothness of the ride, the ease of using the radio (with the steering wheel mounted controls for volume, track change, fast ‘wind’ and cd change) and the smart gearbox. I missed the power, braking ability, automatic wipers (with [...]
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Posted 17 August 2004
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