11/04/11 - Carfreax
BIG RED
Hold on... did I just see..? YUP a Holden! In all her redness; I just became the proud owner of this Australian grafter! You will have seen the epic TopGear videos of the Vauxhall VXR8 and the VXR8 [...]
10/31/11 - Carfreax
DUTCH TREAT
It's that time of year again - the days are getting darker and temperatures are dropping. But not in this town, they're not. Eindhoven is the place of the action and the City of Light is [...]
09/16/11 - Carfreax
FRANKFURT PART FIVE
These are my final five cents for this years Frankfurt show, part five. An Escher-esque perspective on the status quo, the end is the beginning. We enter the fair at the south side and stumble into [...]
09/16/11 - Carfreax
FRANKFURT PART FOUR
Surf's up dude! In the German media landscape the brand from Wolfburg has drawn a lot of attention during the weeks ahead of the Frankfurt show. A new small car for the folks, compact, efficient [...]
09/15/11 - Carfreax
FRANKFURT PART THREE
The end of a short day in Frankfurt. Final show down at the heart of the compound. If the IAAF would be Wimbledon, we just entered the center court for the finals. The Audi pavilion, an impressive [...]
09/15/11 - Carfreax
FRANKFURT PART TWO
Visit France. One of my high lights is the Citroen Tubik, most for its overall appearance. A reinterpretation of the ancient HY bus. Look beyond some of its too retro elements and you will find clever [...]
08/26/11 - Carfreax
AMERANG AUTOMOBIL MUSEUM
With a group of colleagues and a bunch of cars we are on our way to Salzburg. Traveling the b roads of Bavaria, swapping cars every half an hour. Know your product. Lunchtime in Amerang, a green and [...]
07/31/11 - Carfreax
PORSCHE MUSEUM
A saturday in may. Dashing the autobahns in a TT RS. Four automotive cities in one day: Ingolstadt, Muenchen, Stuttgart, Zuffenhausen. The short list for a museum trip through Germany. That concept is [...]
07/25/11 - Carfreax
PASS MASTERS
The scenery, the cars, it all looked great on the pictures. The first edition of an exhilarating event. A bunch of cars slicing the Alps in three days. That was last year.It is the beginning of June. [...]
07/23/11 - Carfreax
CURBED - CHISWICK
With an Audi S8 V10 routinely parked in front of our house (hey, it's even frozen in time on GMaps), with R32 Golfs as 'shoppers' parked around the corner and with daily spots of [...]
07/21/11 - Carfreax
CARFREAX CHINA
Once again we stretch our perspectives. More than five years ago we launched the Carfreax blog. It started as a small local thing firmly rooted in the Netherlands. Soon after the idea of sharing [...]
07/17/11 - Carfreax
GOODWOOD FOS part 1
Weapon of Choice: 'VW Sharan'. Plan: To get there as quickly as we can. Quite opposite to our mates who travel by classic and boat, we've decided to 'fly' by Sharan and [...]
