If you should get a chance to visit the wonderful Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, it really is a great experience. Having queued for a while outside and paid your 10 Euros, you’ll first take an elegant glass lift to the top floor. As you emerge from the lift, you’re immediately confronted by a lifesize model of a [...]
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When technology leaves me cold - why can’t I just drive and not iDrive?
Once of the (very few) benefits of working in the motor trade is that I get to sample a wide variety of different cars, either owned by our customers, or ones I’m trading. In a typical day, I might drive 6 or 7 different cars, and often return home from the garage in a different [...]
Ripped-off in the USA, and when even the air in your tyres doesn’t come for free.
Well, I don’t know where January has gone, but it’s already nearly over. Despite the fact that my wife hasn’t yet taken-down the Christmas tree, we’re nearly in February and according to the news yesterday, we’re supposed to be out of the recession. Not that you’d think so by looking at all the boarded-up shops [...]
More winter woes - what’s snow good for?
For the last two weeks, almost every aspect of our daily lives has been disrupted by a lot of crystalline water ice precipitation, known to the masses as SNOW. Now, I don’t know if it’s something wrong with me, but I actually really don’t like snow one little bit. I just can’t see the pleasure [...]









