Pomona
During my two years in California with Audi I had the chance to discover the incredibly rich car culture that exists there, either every day on the street or at car-meets and organized events. Pomona [...]
Schloss Dyck
Mark your agendas and mark them now: in slightly over 1 week there seems to be an impressive petrolheads event not far across the German border (from Dutchland that is, of course).Check the website of [...]
Mixed Feelings
1910-2010: 100 years of Alfa Romeo! Of course this was something to look forward to, this is something you want to experience when you call yourself a red-blooded (though not hot-headed) Alfisti! [...]
Another one bites the dust
And what a sad fact it is, that this time the hour has struck for Mercury. Last week -as a matter of fact in a traffic jam- I had only just noted down a simple outline for my take, in this blog, on [...]
SEEN ANYTHING GOOD?
"So what's the best thing you've seen?" 9.30 a.m "Anything caught your eye?" 10.00 a.m "What's your car of the show?" 10.15 a.m. It's the first press day of the show and I haven't even been here [...]
GENEVA REVIEW
The location feels like holiday. Surrounded by the decorum of the Alps, this is the place to touch base with the automotive circus at the beginning of the season. The Geneva auto salon is still my [...]
Sub-culture: AutoSalon Tilburg (reprise)
About a month ago I posted a last-minute event alert on our CFX|NL sister site, to try and tempt some of my Dutch buddies into visiting a one-off local 'car meets art' happening downtown [...]
THE DAUPHIN COLLECTION
Our Audi Design team in Munich thought it was about time we had a "workshop" Now, for me workshop is somewhere you do woodwork or repair cars. But no, apparently für zee Germans a [...]
JUGAAD
What do the Tata Nano, Ronald Mc Donald, the Gillette LubraStrip and orange Tokyo Drift tyres have in common?They are, all four, successful examples of the 'jugaad' method of [...]
DERRICK MEETS EAMES
Aquick hit and run to Berlin. This time for business reasons. After our arrival my colleague Torsten and I drop of our bags at the hotel. It is located near the Kurfuerstendamm, the famous shopping [...]
PORSCHE 904
A few months ago I got into a conversation about cars with a work colleague. Nothing unusual about that you may think for a car designer, but we were arguing over what was the greatest Porsche ever. [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Spa Francorhcamps Six Hours Classic. A CFX blast from the past, but not without a reason. Back in 2004 a bunch of Dutch Carfreax decided to top of an exciting season and put some icing on the cake in [...]
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