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Used Car Reviews – What about the Opel Omega?
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Due to the incompability of Opel paint processes and Finnish weather conditions, coupled with the effects of road salt, Opels have often been deemed as rust traps. It doesn’t take long for a Vectra to score its flanks with rust marks, and to rot out its wheelarches. ’80s models have faced the crusher in swarms.…
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Forever Young – 1992 Toyota Corolla
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“Forever Young / I want to be / Forever Young”, sang Alphaville on their 1984 hit song. They were also Big in Japan, as is the Toyota Corolla, year after year. And whenever you start this 1992 Corolla I’ve been driving, an euro dance cover of Forever Young starts playing, as the aftermarket stereo resets…
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Used Car Reviews – 1996 Saab 900S Turbo Sensonic
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This well-worn shifter belongs to a 1996 Saab 900S Turbo Sensonic. Ever heard of the system? Yes, it’s the very same as noted in Top Gear’s The Worst Car in the History special. But don’t let that hold it against it. The system works, somewhat. Need some clarification? The Sensonic system is a clutch pedal-less…
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2,500 Kilometers in a MINI Cooper S
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I’ve never really fully understood the traditional pleasure-pain paradox; you know the one, where something hurts like hell, but you don’t care because you also get pleasure out of it? Yeah, there’s a dirty element of it, but I don’t frequent the same nightclubs as Murilee or Mr. Emslie, so I never fully understood it.…
