The Good, Bad and Ugly

The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at an ageing car. The Toyota Yaris, the Greek goddesses of charm and beauty. Well not quite. According to Wikipedia, “Yaris” is derived from “Charis”, the singular for Charites. And this, thankfully is as complicated as Toyota’s little toaster on wheels gets.Read More →

An irrelevant look at a certain car. If someone said “Nissan Micra” to you, you’d visualise a queue of traffic. At the front would be a little Micra either being driven by a learner or pensioner. In this third guise, Nissan stuck to its guns and refused to invest inRead More →

An irrelevant look at a certain car. Fiat have always been good at making small cars. Big cars, not so much so. Think of a large successful Fiat and you won’t. Think small and you have plenty to choose from. Fiats smallest offering was the 126. This wasn’t really toRead More →

  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly presents to you the Ford Ka 1996 – 2008 If ever there was a small car that outstayed its welcome, it was the Ford Ka.  OK, so I might have been a bit mean to Ford’s city hopeful because when launched, it reallyRead More →

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. Ford Fusion. 2002 – 2012 Here is a car that might have slipped you by. Indeed, you might even have one drive past you later and to be honest, you probably wouldn’t even notice it. ButRead More →

The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. The Renault Clio 2. The 1998 – 2005 Clio in almost all of it guises was a sensational little car. Even now, some 20 years later, they are still fun to drive. Nicole and her PapaRead More →

The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. The Peugeot 307 2001 – 2008 I’m a big fan of Peugeots. I’ve owned 5. I’d own another because I have no problem with owning a French car. I won’t however own a Peugeot ending withRead More →