2018 Concours d’Elegance of America

I have not been back in Detroit since 2011 when I moved away after four years. As luck would have it, my first visit after seven years coincided with the date of the Concours d’Elegance of America. I only discovered this event in my last full year living in metro Detroit, and I was blown away. The 2010 event was (and remains) the best car show I have ever been to. Naturally I had to go again given the opportunity.

The Concours d’Elegance of America is one of the top events in the calendar in the USA. Perhaps not to […]

2018 Ford EcoSport Review

Ford announced recently they were discontinuing sedan sales in the United States. While sedan sales have been on the decline for many years, this was still a very bold move. Presumably this left a few gaps in their model range. Given the market will buy pretty much any SUV car companies offer, the company has added the Ford EcoSport compact SUV to their line up. This vehicle was sold previously in other markets but I understand is new to North America. Compact SUVs may be popular with the public at large, but they are not popular with me. Still, I […]

2018 French Car Show Sydney

My car show season normally kicks off with the French car show. The show is timed for Bastille day, so always occurs mid July. It was a lovely sunny day for the 2018 French Car Show, so the turnout was great. This was in contrast to 2016 (the last one I attended) where poor weather kept the numbers down.

I took the DS for the first time since 2014. It was looking great in its new paint job, the Rouge Massena really coming alive out in the sun. I’ve noticed that since DS values have more than doubled over the […]

My old W123 280CE is for sale

I owned a 1982 W123 280CE for just over a year between mid 2013 and mid 2014. I hadn’t planned to purchase this car, but I saw it on ebay with Mercedes mis-spelled and nobody else bid on it. The car was described as needing a new radiator, but actually it needed a new water pump. This was better for me. While the labour to change the water pump is orders of magnitude more than the radiator, the part cost is a lot less.

Around the same time, my brother was in need of a car and wasn’t looking to […]