Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster in the Belorussian countryside. This is Part 3 of our Dacia Duster adventure through 10 countries and 9000 km around the Black Sea, you can read Part 1: the road to Transnistria here and Part 2: Chernobyl, Ukraine here. Now that Wolodymyr the Duster and I have been…
Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster with in the background the New Safe Confinement covering Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 building. This is Part 2 of our Dacia Duster adventure through 10 countries and 9000 km around the Black Sea, you can read Part 1: the road to Transnistria here. We now leave the unrecognised country…
Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster in Bender, Transnistria. Our 10 countries in 10 days in a Dacia Logan epic adventure was such a hit with you BSCB readers that Dacia Romania agreed to lend me a Duster for 18 days in September 2019, well before COVID-19 travel restrictions temporarily put an…
That's a lot of kangaroos... Last October we took the Hyundai i30 on a spin to see if it was up to the fight against its main target, the Toyota Corolla of which we tested the hybrid variant in February 2019. The result: we thought it was, in the sense that…
Our Mitsubishi ASX in Manning Lookout, Kangaroo Valley on January 31. Australian fires have made worldwide news lately and as a Sydneysider myself I have experienced it from within. The wave of support and donations from all over the world has been heart-warming but these take time to reach those…
Xanadu the Hyundai i30 in Warrumbungle National Park. A few months ago we took the best-selling car in the world, the Toyota Corolla, on an Australian Outback test drive to see whether it deserved its prestigious title. It did. We were impressed by the new generation's safety features and even…
Drone view of Vance our Toyota RAV4 on the Stuart Highway. This is Part 3 and the final iteration of our epic 11.000 km / 7.000 mile - Test Drive of the new Toyota RAV4 into Indigenous Australia. You can check out Part 1: Cape York here and Part 2: Arnhem…
Vance our Toyota RAV4 measuring up against a termite mound. This is Part 2 of our epic 11.000 km / 7.000 miles Test Drive of the new Toyota RAV4 into Indigenous Australia. You can check out Part 1: Cape York here. By the time we reached Mataranka in the Northern…
Vance our Toyota RAV4 with Krys the Croc in Normanton, Queensland. Since it launched in late 2018, the new generation Toyota RAV4 has been hitting sales records almost everywhere it landed - including almost 50.000 monthly sales in the US in August - and is poised to take the lead…
Our Toyota Corolla Hybrid in Silverton, Australia. The Toyota Corolla needs no introduction: a nameplate originally launched in 1966, more than 46 million units across 12 generations have been sold since. The Corolla has been the best-selling vehicle in the world on and off since 1974 and without interruption since 2005, Toyota…
Brabus 800 Widestar (366.000€) in Monaco. It's been a while since our last South of France Photo Reports in 2012 and 2015, so time to freshen up. Away from the overcrowded beaches, some little-known villages in the Cannes hinterlands hide well-preserved local favourites like a Citroen 2CV here and a…
Almost brand-new Toyota Camry taxi at Dubai Airport. I had the opportunity to take an extra-quick drive in Dubai during a layover at the Airport, here are a few snapshots. As it as 3am when I "visited", there wasn't much traffic in town, and the few observations I made of…
It's thumbs up from me on the BYD Tang EV. I kept the best for last, and this final iteration of this China Test Drives 2019 series following the Shanghai Auto Show details the most impressive car I got to drive this year: the BYD Tang EV. BYD (for Build…
