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In tune with the economy

The price of 95 octane petroleum nudges ever closer to the double digits. As a result your V8 saloons and turbo-charged wonder hatches are becoming more and more of a sore point.

Childhood hero to zero

Recently, as colleague Wayne Batty made some routine additions to our buyers guide, the 0-100kph stats of the Hyundai H-1 van caught my attention. It caught everyone’s attention.

Dieter Rencken - Turkey in review

If ever 100 00 Formula 1 fans missed a fantastic spectacle, it was Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix at the Otopark Istanbul – a rather crude sounding name for one of the most technically-demanding circu

Dieter Rencken - The Schumacher incident

‘What is it about Schumacher and [filtered word]?’ asked a Swiss media colleague rhetorically on Sunday evening in Monaco after it was announced that Mercedes Grand Prix were appealing a stewards’ decisi

"Liar Liar" - bloody badge engineers!

“I just don’t get the logic behind naming cars almost at random. It’s badge engineering’s evil brother at work”

Dieter Rencken - China Report

China marked the end of the opening phase of four flyaway races on the trot, and not a race too soon: in more than a few instances team members had not been home since leaving home ahead of the ope

Dieter Rencken - Malaysian Report

Can it really be the 12th Formula 1 grand prix at the Sepang circuit?

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