I always find it quite hilarious that when a new hot hatch is launched it is almost immediately compared to the VW Golf. I don’t know when the Golf became the undisputed king of this segment, but what I do know is the last time I drove a hot Golf, it was without doubt one of the best cars I had ever driven. It was the all-wheel drive Golf R, and it’s going to take some beating.
I think it’s important that we don’t forget that cars in general should excite us. They should just exist in our lives for no other reason than to make us feel like 7 year olds. I haven’t felt this way about a car in years, I actually want a poster of this on my wall. The Ferrari 458 Spider.
We’ve driven the single and double cab variants of this car and I’ll start off by saying I think they’re brilliant. Volkswagen has really taken the fight to the establishment and created a clever, powerful, fuel efficient, good looking, massive range of bakkies.
We should point out that in America these bakkies are marketed as “compact pick ups”.The Amarok is anything but compact. It is simply massive. Its like driving New Zealand. Not driving around in New Zealand, I mean the whole thing.
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The new Polo. It’s nice, you should buy one.
Ciro De Siena
Starbucks failed in Australia. Nobody really knows why. They say Starbucks works elsewhere because it is ‘The Third Place”; the first being your home and the second being your work. Obviously America has become a nation of friendless dullards judging by how popular Starbucks is over there.
Personally, my third place is where I’d find my friends and family. I can count at least 10 places I’d rather spend my time than a Starbucks. Fortunately my family is in the restaurant business so at least one of those places includes food and beer. But we all have a place like that, don’t we?
Recently, a man called Ben Ali passed away. Ben opened an eatery called Ben’s Chilli Bowl back in the ‘60s in Washington, DC. Over the years his eatery became an institution; a bastion of non-racialness in a stormy period in the USA’s history. The eatery’s 50th anniversary was a who’s who of politicians, businessmen and celebrities who’d been through the best and worst of times, all the while eating at Ben’s.
What are television adverts for these days? Washing the dishes? Running to the loo? Smoke break? They’re certainly not for watching, which is why we love entertaining new adverts, especially involving cars. Video after the jump.
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