Getaway in Tallinn

Well, I've finally done it, my first ever podcast. Couldn't make it earlier, since the doctors did not allow me to drive for a while. But anyway, here it is, give it a listen if you will.
It's about driving in Tallinn during rush hour without getting caught in traffic. It is possible, and here I've proved it's easy to make it from Mustamäe to Kadriorg in less than 25 minutes.
Just click play

Podcast deleted due to extreme crappiness


For use in Google Earth: click here and open it. Once in google earth, just press 'play' to go through the route.

Standalone:

Get 'em while they last!

I've been away for a while, due to an operation, but that's that. I found something that's really suitable for a comeback.

I've found a used car from the used cars section of a sell-buy magazine Soov. Interesting, isn't it. Wait 'til you read what it is.

It's quite economic, has a large boot, a tiny diesel engine, four doors, two full rows of seats, sturdy German build quality, great ground clearance and.. wait, take all I've just said and turn it upside down. This car is a bit of screaming madness, it is able to dry up Saudi Arabia in a single trip to the shop (where you can't buy anything, because there's no storage space), the Italians made it, which means it will go off in an incredible fireball when you press the throttle, and it's idea of offroading is leaving your right tires on the curb (if it's a very-very low one). Yep, it's the Enzo. On sale. In Lithuania. For a mere 1,85 million US dollars.

Check it out here while it's on sale. I'm sure someone will buy it soon, as my birthday is coming up (just kidding, I don't like it, buy me an Aston instead).

Here's a picture, too, if you've no idea why they're selling an italian bloke called Enzo:

Photo: gizmodo.com

Smart Audio

Photo: Karl Hallik

I mentioned the Smart Car in the last post. There is only one thing it is useful for, in my opinion. Yes, all you Smart owners, turn your car into a jukebox! Notice the speakers in the door? Well they're in both doors, plus a heapload of subwoofers and amplifiers behind the seats. I'm not a tweaked audio freak, but I smiled seeing that Smart car put to good use.
The only OK Smart car is the roadster, because it just looks too funky. And they say it's wonderful to try on track (how hard can it be to handle a picnic basket anyway?).

Photo: virtualauto.it

Another new Subaru

Photo: Karl Hallik

Not quite what you'd expect, eh? Despite the looks it's probably not a contender to Subaru's JWRC programme. Why? Well, a whopping 1-litre engine does probably not compete with.. um.. anything. I understand Subaru comes from the East, where they're fond of little cardboard boxes on wheels, but why introduce it in the European market? People would rather have the boxer diesel engine than the Justy, if they want to be 'green'.
Take the Smart car for example. It's tiny. It's slow. You can fit two men and a case of beer there and that's it. And yet it takes up 5 litres of petrol per 100km, 8 if there are people on both seats. I've got a diesel Audi, it takes 5 litres to a 100 in town even with three people and their bags in. Go figure.

Subaru Lacetti/Chevrolet Impreza

As a special request I'd like to bring out a weird similarity. This will probably be my last post from the car show, since it's running out of date.
Photo: Karl Hallik

This is a Chevrolet Lacetti hatchback. It's quite old already, so to say. Yet it's quite nice and sporty. Perhaps they've benefitted from their WTCC experience (the rear wing of their WTCC car is seen in the background). Anyway, the point of the post is here:
Photo: Karl Hallik

This is the new Subaru Impreza. It came out about half a year after the Lacetti. Did they run out of ideas or something? Because.. well.. apart from the rear side window, they're quite similar. So, if I bought a Lacetti for half the price of a Subaru, painted it blue and installed gold rims, would you really be able to say I'm a Subaru wannabe?

PS, when Subaru came out with their hideous hatchback, people were thanking God Mitsubishi kept their EVO as a sedan. Two months later Mitsubishi 'proudly' announced the new EVO will be a hatchback. Good-bye pretty rally cars!

The Ford Kuga and the KIA Something

Photo: Karl Hallik

I'm quite excited about this car. Not only does it look good, but I suppose Ford has made some good use of their off-road experience and thus the car might just work off the black stuff. I suppose I should take it to the forest once they let people test drive it. But until I do, I quite like the car. Just hope the power cable underneath the front end is not associated to the car.

Photo: Karl Hallik

This car, on the other hand, I do not like. I know it's just a prototype, an idea model, but still. The front lights are from a Honda Accord, the led-lights come from the new Audi A4 and A5/S5, the bottom grill looks like it's nicked off the Audi Q7 and then badly deformed. The 'rear wing' contraption comes from a VW Touareg. If you enlarge the picture, you see the funniest ever tyre pattern. Such tyres would get stuck on a gravel road, let alone mud or anything of the sort.
And of course the cherry on the top - what's with the colour? Would you buy a candy green jeep?

A Vito!

Photo: Karl Hallik

This is the new Mercedes Vito. No, wait, it's the one on the left. No, maybe the one on the right.. or the black one at the back?

All in all there were 13 (I kid you not) Mercedes Vitos on display. Next to a selection of Porsche supercars and Peugeot design wonders. Mercedes small cars were in a different hall. This is probably the worst example of setting up a display.

But still, why 13 examples of the same car? Yeah, I get it, one has five seats and a huge boot, the other has three seats and an even larger boot, the third has a fridge for a boot.

One of them had a side door open. But we couldn't sit there, because the seats had been folded down and there was no way of getting them up. None of the gazillion knobs and levers worked, there were no instructions, and the salespeople were more interested in the pie stand in the corner. So all the people saw were 13 nearly identical vans and no-one to promote them. Go vans!

Instant wet dream classic

Photo:coolsupercars.com

A fellow blogger, Chris Hafner, let out a post about the original McLaren F1. My professor Scott Abel (the nemesis responsible for nearly every blog that starts in BFM) sent me the link to the post. I thought I'd send him a thank you E-mail, but it came out too long, so I thought I'd post it as well.

Hey, that's almost as good a race car as this: http://estcar.blogspot.com/2008/05/true-rally-car.html

Well, just kidding. The original McLarenF1 has been a wet dream for every petrolhead I suppose.
I'd like to point out tho, that this guy got one thing very very wrong. He said that it's surprising McLaren used power by BMW instead of they usual supplier, Mercedes. The car started in 1992.

Here are McLaren's engine suppliers throughout 1992-1995:
1992: Honda
1993: Ford
1994: Lamborghini (indeed, a V12, but chrysler was producing those at the time, so they were quite sluggish), later Peugeot
1995: Mercedes

So thank god, they took a BMW engine, otherwise you'd have a Honda-powered MC (good at 0-60, able to rev up to a millio rpm, yet slow as hell on higher speeds), a Ford or Chrysler/Lambo produced MC (a powerful engine capable of exhausting Saudi-Arabia with just a trip to the shop), or a Mercedes engine from the early to mid 1990s (there is a reason why 190E was the best they had to offer, and I'm not talking about the purple body).

Supercops

Photo: Postimees /van depicted not connected to the story/

I was driving towards school today, thinking whether or not I will be late. I was doing 55km/h as usually (city limit's at 50), and turned a corner to find myself behind a police van. I kept my distance from the bus at a constant ~30metres. Guess what happened. I found myself doing 65+, when we got to a 40km/h area, we slowed down to 55. The cops had no sirens or signal lights on. I was not late to school.

And these are the people who fine us for doing 55km/h on a bad day..

A true Rally car

Photo: Karl Hallik

Roll Cage - check
Bucket Seats - check
Rally Steering Wheel - check
Five Point Seat Belts - check
Cheap Plastic around the Steering column - check
Alternator Switch from a Belarus Tractor - check

What do you get?
Oh yes, the one, the only.. Dacia Logan Sports. No further comments. Didn't even take a picture from the outside somewhy. If you have any proof of this car in action, please contact me.

By the way, check out the roll cage. It ends before the dashboard, leaving the glove compartment and side ventilation outlets untouched. Go figure.

What the hell happened in Tallinn?

Photo: Tricia Ares


I was driving to a meeting in Kadriorg today. I was driving there from my house in Nõmme. It's about 20 kilometres there, but it tooks me exactly 80 minutes. 65 of which was spent on a strip of about 7 kilometres. I have not seen Tallinn so stuck since G.W. Bush blessed us with his presence and the Police turned the town centre into spookyville.

My friend spent exactly an hour going from Mustamäe to Kadriorg. It usually takes about 20-30 minutes during rush hour. I myself left home calculating that I should be able to spend ten minutes before the meeting chatting to people. Instead, I was 35 minutes late. What went wrong?

The new Cadillac Bulls...

Photo: Karl Hallik

This is definitely a bad name for a car. Yeah, sure, you can read it 'the Cadillac Bee-El-Es', but it's just so much easier to say 'the Cadillac Bulz', which can either resemble two round objects, or is short for some bovine excrement. A definite no-no in today's word of MSN-like abbreviations.

Otherwise all the Cadillacs looked about the same, huge hunks of metal, cheap plastic and the fuel consumption of a small European country. I worked on a TV project concerning some Escalades and they started to lose bits of trim after a few weeks of everyday use. No German build quality here.

Here starts the show

I know it is a bit late for it, but alas, even I am human. Anyway, I am going to give my totally subjective view on the Tallinn Motor Show that took place at the end of April.
I just got all my photos more or less organized, so I will post in a random order, pretty much the same order I walked through the show.

The show itself was pretty big, it was in four big halls plus outside, between the halls around the Saku Suurhall area. Most suppliers here were represented (rumours are every supplier except for Saksa Auto (VW)), but I did not keep track of that. Why didn't I? Well, if they weren't there, they will not be commented on in this blog, will they? It's their loss (or gain).

So, anyway, let's start with a little big something I found in the outside department.

Photo: Karl Hallik

This is the GAZ 33081 "SADKO". GAZ (Gorky Automobile Plant) used to bethe truck for a long time in the Soviet Union. The marvel about this here green meanie is that it looks like a hybrid of GAZ51 and GAZ53 (produced from 1946 to the 1990s), which means if you happen to total it, you can buy cheap spare parts from every junkyard, which has any of those previous models there.
It's got a 4,36 litre turbo diesel engine, which creates 100kW at some point in it's life. And it weighs up to 6300 kilos. Basically it does not even promise to be faster than the old ones.

Photo: Karl Hallik

This here is the new MAZ. I will not even bother with the model name or number for various reasons. One: It's probably a series of numbers, which will not tell the average person anything. Two: It's not really their car.

The new MAZ is made using almost everything they got from big MAN trucks. Even the name is almost the same. The powertrain and drivetrain (the engine, the gearbox, and every bit that brings the power from them to the road) are from MAN trucks. The people in Minsk (MAZ - Minsk Automobile Plant) did the cabin (which looks a lot like.. you got it, a MAN) and the body and frame of the car.
A trucker friend told me the frame is so weak, if you run the car fully loaded for a while, then dump the load, it will be screwed. Literally. The main frame bars running from front to back are so soft, the full load the specifications say it can carry, will deform them. Go figure why they make a truck like that.

I wonder why they did not have the infamous KAMAZ there, which used to be the best dump truck ever due to its size (it was short, yet high, so big loads and access to areas big truck couldn't get to). I mean, they even race the DAKAR Rally (won seven times). And as their site shows, they're still active. Here's a piece of nostalgia for all of you ex-Soviet people.

Photo: Wikipedia

Behold! The new Mercedes.. um.. car!

Photo: AUTOMEDIA

Some new spy photos leaked from Nürburgring. They are of a Mercedes something something. I mumble about the model name not because I have not done my homework, but because no-one knows what car that is. It looks a lot like Dodge Viper, which rules out the chance of a mid-engine supercar. It is not the new McLaren F1 or F2, because they stopped co-operating on that car last year. They're keeping the production in-house, using their own tuning company AMG, and also getting help from their DTM facility HWA Racing.

It is mostly called the new Gullwing. Will it ever achieve the fame and glory of the Gullwing, is unknown. Probably not.

Based on those hints, it can be said this car will be powerful, and probably a dream to handle, since AMG gives the power and you can bet a DTM (German Touring Car Championship) facility knows something about making the car steerable. I'm just a little concerned about the looks. When the Viper came out, it was the first car in a long time that little boys stuck posters of on their bedroom walls (such a reaction had not been achieved since the Lamborghini Countach). Are Mercedes trying to live off someone else's fame?

Here's another speculation: some people think this is a Maybach Coupé. Maybach are currently finishing their Landaulet, which is a gigantic open-top limousine, I suppose they would not be developing a tiny (compared to Maybachs) Coupé at the same time.

Talking about not knowing what car it might be: on this picture it looks like a TVR Cerbera (obviously the plastic panels are there to hide the real look, but you've got to hand it to them: create a merc that looks like a Viper and, when disguised, a TVR)


Photo: AUTOMEDIA

April fools!?!

Sorry for taking so long, but, yes, as some of you got it, the last post was just an April fools' joke. It would be horrible of course, if Savisaar's Tallinn would become a tax hell. Thank heaven it has not happened yet.

Anyway, if you believed it, gotcha!
If you didn't believe it, good for you.
If you still believe it, send me money every time you drive into town, thank You.

Help! Car Tax in Tallinn!

The news this morning stated something horrible. Tallinn City Government are introducing car/pollution tax to people driving in Tallinn, starting from the first of May. This is similar to Stockholm, where they have security cameras, which take a picture of your car and then send a bill to your house.

But when in Stockholm this costs around 10 SEK every time you enter the city centre, here they want to make it the same as the parking areas. This means entering the town area will cost 16 EEK, entering city centre will cost 36 kroons and entering old town will cost 72 EEK. This does not apply to members of Parliament/Riigikogu, who have to go to old town every day anyway.

The press officer of Tallinn City Government says this tax has to be so high so that the people would pay for the security cameras themselves. Since the city government has wasted enough taxpayer money anyway, they want the people to help themselves now. Tallinn City Government hopes this new tax will be greeted with glee, since people in Stockholm have already accepted the system and are not rebellious.

I will now deeply consider driving the car to town on a daily schedule. May God have mercy on our souls.

Subaru is in the house

Photo: RSportsCars.com

Today they opened a new Subaru salon in Tallinn. AS Autospirit, which also sells Chevrolet and Nissan, got the rights to represent Subaru recently, and thus opened a new salon, which focuses on professional post-buying service.

”Every year a marginal number of new Subarus are added to our traffic, but not enough attention is paid to comfortable and good post-buying service,” said the CEO of Autospirit, Marko Viirand. ”With adding this salon we guarantee short waiting times for current Subaru owners at the service section, and the best available support for new customers when buying a new Subaru.”

The new salon is located at Ehitajate Tee 122, and on the opening week they're open even on Sunday. Autospirit says they want to apply the new 'right now with the right price' policy, and lower the prices for the cars by up to 60 000 EEK.

If you want a Subaru, now is the time to go there and get one. Cheap.

Update on Fiat 500

Apparently yesterday and today, they have a display of the 500 in Viru Keskus. I went there and I noticed a few setbacks to the car.

Photo: Motion Trends

First, I think I figured out why it is so hard (if not impossible) to find a picture of the car taken from behind (eye-level). It looks 85 years old from there. Take away the chrome strips and focus on the real back end of the car. It looks like the tires are standing underneath the frame, not stuck to the rear axle. From this view, cornering should be out of the question, because it looks like it would roll over with the smallest turn.

Photo: Motoring Fun

Secondly, they have a red one there on display. Top-spec model of course. With the red dashboard. Ugly. On the picture, it looks like a marvel of design. In real life, it looked like they covered the dash with the cheapest vinyl plating and said "yeah, flashy, that'll do!". Please don't buy the red one.

Fergie's Hummer

It's been rumoured that the Hummer H2 on sale in Tartu belongs to the lady vocalist from the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie.
Photo: Auto24.ee

Well, it is quite flashy and bling, has three subwoofers in the boot, and a Black Eyed Peas tattoo on the side. Go figure. Oh, and then there is the price tag: 1 239 000 EEK. There is another Hummer of the same age in Auto 24, which is on sale for 790 000 EEK. Is there a person in Estonia who is such a big fan of Fergie that he/she would gladly pay almost half a million extra? The only point would be to buy it and then sell it on eBay to some gazillionnaire BEP fan.

What puzzles me is the clash of some facts. I don't have any idea whether Fergie has a driver's licence or not, but the car is dated January 2005, and has only gone through 12 000 kilometres. If I spent a fortune on blinging up a UPS truck, I would show it around a lot more.

Anyway, all you small BEP fans, grab your cameras and head on to Tartu, this is the next best thing to a real Fergie concert, isn't it?

Definitely not a car weather

Photo: Marta Raja

I went to sleep last night and it was snowing sideways. I woke up this morning and I couldn't find my car. It's been snowing since yesterday afternoon, so around 24 hours now. They predicted a 36-hour snowstorm.

So why all this in a car blog? Accidents is the key word. People, please try and use your head when you go out driving. Or don't go driving in the first place. They are using all their power in Tallinn city centre, and have pretty much managed to keep the traffic flowing. The Estonain Road Administration has asked people in small cars not to go driving at all (article in Estonian).

I live in a suburb in Tallinn, and the only things that plowed the snow were dog's stomachs, children's sleighs and car's bottom plates. I had a few unintentional powerslides just trying to corner at low speed. There were a couple of kids in a Nissan Navara making money - they drove around the streets and looked for cars that were stuck (and there were a lot), and offered to drag them out for a small change.

I can't leave the Premium Motors new salon unmentioned: I saw the concrete laying crane there today. What were they laying the concrete on, if I may ask? There's just a huge hole in the ground, which was probably filled with snow by daybreak.

So, once again, please, don't go driving if you have summer tires, a low car or no brains. Thank You!

Estonian

After a long hard struggle I think I might have been accepted to the blog.tr.ee community. I just have to publish a post saying the following: qsxPznFhEa. There you go then. Hope this helps me in some way..

Back on cars soon!

Sepang

Well now, this looked mostly like good old F1 from a few years ago. All the cars were on rails and no such destruction derby as last weekend. Only Massa showed his ballet skills as he spun off.

So what happened to Hamilton? He was being towed by Webber for the best part of the race, and when it was already too late, started showing his speed. I just wish the race had lasted for 10 or so more laps, would've got interesting. Webber and Alonso could also have started to battle in a few laps time.

Of course, the reason Hamilton dropped behind Webber in the first place, was the catastrophic first pit stop. The first thing that came off the right front tire was a heapload of black smoke. Then they got the bold open, then they dropped the power drill (why would you do that??), and finally got the thing to work and the tire back on. 20 seconds all in all. Yes, I have at times thrown the wrench down with great vengeance and furious anger when I can't get those darned bolts off, but I am usually not expected to change four tires in 8-10 seconds either.

Next up Bahrain in two weeks, with a final straight that's over 1km long. Can you spell s-p-e-e-d?

500

No, this is not the 500th post to this blog (obviously). Nor is it a sequel to the movie 300.

This is a post saying that the Fiat 500 has arrived!


Photo: Fiat.ee

The European car of the year 2008 has hit the Estonian market at last. The prices of the base models vary from 165 000 EEK (the 1,2 Pop) to 225 000 EEK (the 1,3 Multijet Lounge and 1,3 Multijet Sport). This is actually less than I thought. The previous revived style icon, the Mini, starts from 260 200 EEK for the base model and goes up to 311 000 (Cooper D). But enough about the prices.

Everyone in Europe is familiar with the expression Polish/Polski Fiat. This one is no exception, it is indeed being assembled in Poland. But who can blame Fiat for that? The only cars the Italians are willing to assemble are those of Fiat's sister company, the one with the prancing horse logo on the bonnet.

As mentioned before, the engine range starts at 1,2 litres, which seems like nothing, but is actually used in the VW Polo. /pause/ My God, I just did some calculations and it seems like the Fiat 1,2 would leave the Polo wiping up its dust. Some numbers: even though the Fiat is 37cm shorter and 2,3cm more narrow, it is 2,1cm higher than the Polo. But the aspect that makes this a faster car is the following: the Fiat is 149kg lighter (kick two passengers off the Polo), yet the engine has 9 more horses under its bonnet (60 vs. 69). When it comes to the 1,4 litre engines (the biggest the Fiat has to offer), the differences are more or less the same. But who am I to compare a true style icon (like an iPod or a Chihuahua) to an everyday item?


Photo: Fiat.ee

Yes, indeed, the Fiat 500 is a true and pure style icon. Some points to prove it:
¤ It has optional plug-ins for the iPod and other similar trendy devices
¤ The optional extras list features items such as Italian flag stripes running from back to front, various colour stripes across the body, the number 5 on the bonnet in either black, white or red, squares on the roof, the number '500' and the word 'sport' in various colours. Basically, you can pick up a load of stickers for your car and let the people at the factory place them on your car.
¤ Voice activation of various systems (a modern stylish person could not be bothered to press the touch screen on his navigator, can he?). This brings to mind some Italian bloke yelling at his car in the middle of town square. Bueno.

Me? Yes, I am so going for a test drive in this.

Spotted!

Saw a Porche Cayenne yesterday. Not an ordinary one, though. This one is called the Gemballa GT600 Aero 3 Prestige, which is on sale as a new car for 3 500 000 EEK. For comparison, you can get a 130 sq.m. two-storey house with a 1000 sq.m. yard and a sauna for 1 900 000 EEK. So, two houses or a car, even if it churns out a massive 600bhp?

Since officially there is only one of those on sale in Estonia, why did I see this one? They say it is brand new (AKA the mileage shows it's rolled off the transport vehicle). This one was standing next to the construction site of the new Premium Motors salon (the one near my house, which also sells Wiesmann's), all muddy and dirty. Had it been driving past me, I'd have thought it was just another Cayenne, but since it was standing, I barely made out the sign 'GT600' under the mud on the side skirt.
Edit: I saw it again today, showing its speeding skills at the traffic lights

You've got to hand it to the fine men at Gemballa, they have tried to make something nice out of the Cayenne. But I still would not pay that much to get a car that is not essentially a Porche. If I wanted a four wheel drive Porche, I would buy a 911, thank you.

Vrroommm

Well, this concludes the first episode in the 18-show series called the F1 championship. Well done Lewis Hamilton, this was quite spectacular (gaining a nigh 15-second lead every time the security car left). Too bad for Kovalainen getting caught up after Glock's debut as a fighter pilot and thus losing a surefire second place.
Too bad for Bourdais for having a second-hand Ferrari engine, which blew to smithereens a couple of laps before a grand debut finish.
As a matter of fact, too bad for all 15 drivers not finishing today. Haven't seen so many cars quit since, well, a long long time.

On the entertaining side, though, it's a joy they've cut down all the electronic aids. Finally the cars don't look like they're on rails and controlled by computers, there was actually some sideways action, and a few spins. Looks like the beginnings of an exciting season.

Photo: Formula1.com

Time for your opinion: what happened and who snapped, when Massa and Coulthard crashed? To me it looked as if Massa was acting as a Kamikaze, the commentator on Estonian TV3 said it was rather Coulthard's fault, since Massa had already creeped up on him. Any ideas?

SsangYong

Photo: Kommest Autokeskused

Today, SsangYong opened their first ever salon in the Baltics. As it happened, the salon was established here in Tallinn, Estonia. They used to be sold together with Peugeot's at Kommest Car Centres, says Postimees.
It is also said that SsangYong focuses on SUV's and MPV's (people carriers). They offer five models of quite big cars, and they also have a set of used cars for sale.

These cars are not for the faint hearted, though. As their site, www.sy.ee says, Rexton, their flagship, starts at 537 900 kroons. This can be bumped up with a huge load of additional gear, which can take the price up to 725,850EEK. Funnily enough, if you start with the more expensive version, the S3, add all the available extras, you end up with spending 660,100EEK. Then again, if you're in for the cheaper one, you probably would not buy all the optional extras.

When the first third-hand SsangYongs ended up in Estonia, I was not too interested in them. The fact they were from South Korea, and had superweird designs (from the perspective of a North European person), somewhat brought down the enthusiasm. Nowadays, many say the designers at SsangYong tend to nick ideas from Mercedes-Benz. This has a simple solution, though - SsangYong and Mercedes joined forces in the 1990s.

So, if you all want to see a salon made for extravagant Korean Mercs, head up to Sõpruse Puiestee 153 (next to the Peugeot Centre at Sõpruse Pst 151), and check it out.

Ignition

Welcome one, welcome all to a new blog about cars. This blog, though, has a small twist. This one is written by a person, who is an avid car enthusiast from Estonia, and one who loves to spot new cool cars in the streets. To bring some light to my own life, and to others, who would like to get any idea about what is what in the world and Estonia, I shall be reviewing new ‘supermodels’ of cars, and super-cars, and also try to find out if, when and at what cost they will arrive to Estonia. Lately, the car market in Estonia has become quite varied. Lamborghini and Brabus for example, have opened salons here. Also, next autumn, Premium Motors will be opening a new salon in Tallinn, where they will be selling one of my personal favourites – the Wiesmann, the car that inspired me to do this blog.
As I mentioned before, I hope to co-operate with car retailers to get the freshest information about new ‘exclusive’ cars.
The twist comes now: I will also be reviewing some cars that are not so cool, but have become legends in Eastern Europe. These are the Zhiguli or Lada, the Moskvich, the Volga, a luxury car, and other cars, which are fun until something falls off.
Links to co-operating retailers can be found on the right hand side, as soon as they confirm their willingness to be advertised for free.

About the author:
I am a 20-year-old media student, quite passionate about cars, love driving them, and when chance comes, love taking them to the limit, but no further. If I were filthy rich, I would have the Rolls Royce Phantom for going to the theatre, the Audi RS4 for everyday traffic, the Range Rover for trips in the country, a Wiesmann for sunny Sundays, and Jeremy Clarkson to go to the pub with. Since I’m a poor student, I have an Audi, which is probably one to survive the Armageddon along with cockroaches and Cher, and some good friends for the occasional beer. I love any sorts of car sports on TV, and on location (why oh why won’t the WTCC come to Estonia? Oh, yeah, we don’t have any suitable tracks..)

Anyway, enough about gibberish, I’m off to mail the retailers, and hope to see you here when new posts come up!

Yours, Karl