Seen in the semi-wild, finally. I couldn’t take a photo of the whole car.

The lighting showed off the highlights on a 2.2 litre diesel with deep blue metallic paint and a chrome-edged DLO. Continue reading “Micropost: 2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia”
Seen in the semi-wild, finally. I couldn’t take a photo of the whole car.
The lighting showed off the highlights on a 2.2 litre diesel with deep blue metallic paint and a chrome-edged DLO. Continue reading “Micropost: 2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia”
Zagato is interesting and Aston Martin is less so. Citroen was interesting and is less so. What do they have in common?
Pretty much nothing except that both the rather costly Aston Martin Zagato of 2016 and the rather cheap Citroen C1 have a similarly unappealing faux-wraparound windscreen-to-side-glass.
We reach for the Carnauba Wax and Ostrich Feather duster, then have second thoughts.
There’s something both satisfying and unnatural about a clean car. Cars aren’t like people on any level but, specifically, because they are never going to improve with age. Cars don’t have a difficult teenage period then bloom into mid-life vigour. Apart from a running-in period which might ease up a few parts, and running-in isn’t a big deal anyway these days, cars are on the downhill path from Day One… Continue reading “Theme : Materials – Keeping It Clean”