Hugo Boss + McLaren = Don't Buy

I don’t want to use many words for this post. McLaren has never been my favourite car but I always admired its technology, even though the new MP4-12C sounds like a MP4 player. Despite their non-creative effort branding, McLaren decided to focus brand extension.

As McLaren and Hugo Boss have been working for thirty years, they decided to reveal McLaren Hugo Boss shoes! When you first read, you might be thinking Hugo Boss would make very stylish shoes. However reality is exactly the opposite. The McLaren shoes are the most terrible shoes I have ever seen. I don’t like to use this expression but they look terrible and nobody would like to wear them, unless people who love McLaren.

Hugo Boss could have achieved much better design! And I definitely sure about this.

https://www.mclarenshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10551_-1_54156_VMM395

 

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Best way to waste your money: CL65 AMG

I think since 2003, there is something called Mercedes 65 AMG! The catastrophe of automotive engineering, and expression of Mercedes’s dullness on perfection. CL65 was available in previous model and also in current model (unfortunately). This weird car has 12 cylinders and produced 612 horse powers! Anything figure about this car is ultimately ridiculous. There is no need mention them here. However there is one thing should be mentioned, its price!

One day if you lose your mind, and decide to spend £ 160 000 on a car which has more option than anything on earth, Mercedes CL65 AMG is your car. You pay this amount of money and you get the plain car and you have to add at least %20 extra to have everything. I know in Ferrari, they also ask for money for yellow brake callipers but that’s a Ferrari! I can understand.

On the other hand, for £ 160 000 you can easily buy an Aston Martin DB9 Coupe which offers everything as standard. Many of Mercedes fanatics will say, but Aston Martin does not have crash collision system! Because, in an Aston Martin you don’t fall asleep and crash the car in front of you. You feel the passion, even if you slept for four hours last night, when you see a DB9 and when you hear it; you would definitely wake up! I am not sure for CL65 AMG offers the same effects. Also Mercedes CL65 AMG is not a stylish car!!!!

Anyway, if you have lots of money and willing to buy something which can show your lack of automotive knowledge; just buy a Mercedes with 65 AMG written on the back :) If you dying to buy a CL, just buy CL 63 AMG. Because, it is more usable! It offers less power but you can control it ;)

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New BMW 6 Series have some interesting photos!

New BMW 6 Series is one of the best looking GT cars with reasonable price! When we consider the other GT cars like; Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati and others. 6 Series is really cheap and look really nice. Even though it was lots of engine option and it is a sibling called 1 Series, I really loved the new 6 Series.

However I was shocked with the press release photo! The ones which you can see below do not look realistic. Actually, they look photoshop! As far as I know automotive firms usually don’t prefer to use photoshop but I cannot understand how these things happened. May be I am wrong but, they still look a bit weird!

The problem is, there are no proper shadows :O

 

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Audi: Vorsprung Durch Matryoshka

When I see a new Audi, I always remember the Russian doll matryoshka. These are placed one inside each other. Like new Audi range. When you buy an A8, you end up to A1 very easy! Thanks to their new design identity, each new Audi looks more similar to each other and becomes terribly hard to identify!

Recently I saw the new A1 and I could not understand whether it was A3 or not. I know, A1 is smaller and has a different design. But it is quite hard to understand the difference with bare eyes. You have to use electron microscope to identify it. Matryoshka syndrome has been seen in other German brands too, Mercedes and BMW were the kind of these. During ‘90s, Mercedes C Class, E Class and S Class were typically the same with each other. It was quite hard to understand the difference from far. But BMW made it worse and 3, 5 and 7 were nearly the same and you have to place your nose in front the bonnet to see the difference.

However, both BMW and Mercedes cured from this syndrome and now we can identify their models very clearly. In following decade, we will see this in new Audis also. Even though Audi has a significant place between BMW and Mercedes, there is still a long way to travel.

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Car of the Day #1 Rolls Royce Ghost

I have noticed that, many people are posting pictures named as “dress of the day”, “city of the day”, “shoes of the day”, “architecture of the day” and so on. Then I thought, I have lots of car pictures which were taken by me and why I should not upload them as “car of the day”. On each Wednesday, I will be posting a car from my own library.

I am starting with Rolls Royce Ghost.

Saab, Volvo, Nokia and IKEA: Management Issues

For many years, we adore the Scandinavian brands. They always had something different than the others! Volvo was the safest car, Saab's technology was transferred from aerospace, and Nokia was the stylish. As you might noticed, I used past tense! Because, they all left in the past. Now Volvo is not the safest car manufacturer, fortunately every brand is safe. Saab has nothing to offer, except being Saab. Nokia is having last good days in mobile phones business and being beaten up by just one product.

Now what is next? Ikea! Just remember the last decades and how all those Scandinavian brands were glamour. But now, they lost all their fame. Okay, Volvo is getting better but there is a huge gap between the other brands and Volvo.

From all these brands, I noticed one thing in common. Scandinavian firms are really innovative and good at design, but ignore the whole world! Your brands may be the best, but we are not living in your region. So, we do not think like you. And Scandinavian firms are not that good at predicting the future and upcoming trends. I think in one decade Ikea can face the similar problems like Nokia and others. I hope they will realize what is going wrong and before things go wrong.

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Mercedes G Class vs. Ferrari FF (Follow Ferrari)

Since I started blogging, Mercedes always provided me something to write. Thanks to their marketing and engineers, I always found something and honestly I am sure some of them are not adored by Mercedes too!

Recently Ferrari decided to introduce interesting materials by starting a car called as FF, in terms of Twitter world this mean “Follow Friday” or we amend to “Follow Ferrari”. Since the live press conference which was heavily involved with a word called “innovative”, offered excellent materials for me.

And Ferrari did not stop this! They introduce a very unusual footage of FF. And this footage is very similar to Mercedes’s the one and only coolest vehicle G Class’s advertisement. In both videos scenery starts with snow and both of the vehicles are doing artistic moves on snow. For G Class, that’s something really normal. Because, that’s designed for that! However jumping and sliding on snow with a Ferrari is really “innovative”. I salute the Ferrari marketing team.

I hope that they won’t reveal a bullet proof FF, as a result of innovative technology!

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Fast and I really get bored of Furious !!!

Today I was planning to write about something else, however I watched something really catastrophic on internet. And it is called Fast and Furious 5! Nearly every two years, there are revealing worse Fast and Furious. I watched only two of them and the rest I could not bear to watch.

All the time scenario is the same, big guys are doing something and they are running away and cars crashes, people jumps, big cars crashes again, guys with lots of tatoo running all the time. And each movie they develop their own dictionary of useless words!

I really wonder who is writing all these things and how she or he can convince own self to like this thing. There is only one explanation and we all know, money! But this motivation will never ever make this movie to be remembered in future. When they get bored of writing this movie, everyone will forget them. It will not be like Italian Job!

If you have five minutes to waste, here is the trailer.

International Women Day

Sorry for late International Women Day’s post. Most of the people have bias toward women drivers. Instead of numbers just watch these two videos from Sabine Schmidt and Vicki Butler Henderson, then think again :)

Sabine is a race driver and drives the legendary BMW M5 Ring Taxi! And she lapped thousands of times around the Nürburgring. Couple of years or may be more, Top Gear gave her a Ford Transit to lap around the Nürburgring less than ten minutes. And she achieved by eight seconds extra! Transit never been designed to race and overtake Porsches.

I guess everyone knows Vicki, she was presenting old Top Gear and now on Fifth Gear. She is also race driver. And she drives a Toyota iQ in city and in a circuit. Like Transit, iQ was never meant to be driving like this and my recommendation is not to try by yourself.

Very green Range Rover

I know that some people really don’t like SUV, they can say lots of reason to express their hate towards these vehicles. I am not going to argue with those arguments. However Range Rover Evoque has something really creative :)

Range Rover’s new model Evoque, small Range Rover, offer very low levels of CO2 for an SUV vehicle. But they didn’t stop here! Now they are offering something really green. They are not offering any very special green colour, they are offering bike carrier for roof.

You are buying Range Rover Evoque, one of the smallest SUV on market to fit anywhere in a city and you decide to ride bike. However there is a problem, with your luxury clothes you may not wish to take the bike down from the roof. Honestly, I have no idea how you can lift a bike on a roof on of an SUV. That person has to be something similar to Hercules and those guys usual do not fit to small SUVs.

If you wish to be green and be more green, buy Evoque with roof bike carrier!

 

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Global Four Wheel Drive

Last one decade we heard this phrase all the time, "global warming." I am not going to discuss about this here. But I noticed something a bit interesting!

During last one decade, automotive firms started to offer something quite opposite to global warming, four wheel drive option for passenger vehicles. As we all know that, global warming means there will be warmer weather and less snow! This means, we don't need four wheel drive, single axle traction will be adequate.

Interestingly, automotive firms thought totally something else and started to expand the four wheel drive option across the whole passenger vehicle range. Especially Mercedes and BMW did this very well! You can have four wheel drive option nearly in each model.

Honestly I really like the four wheel drive passenger vehicles, there are more stable and you don't have to worry about any adverse weather condition.

In reality, we still have very tough winter and lots of snow all over the world. Actually in some countries, there were enormous amount snows. As a result of this very noticeable condition, the demand for four wheel passenger cars increased! Because, people feel more confident when they have traction on four wheels.

My advice from this condition, Jaguar should not focus on an SUV model. Instead of this, they should focus on four wheel drive option in XF and XJ models. I know you will say, there was an X-Type with four wheel drive. But the X-Type was the worst thing ever happened to Jaguar, and it was based on a Ford Mondeo and it was front wheel drive and it was not that good either. So, current vehicle range of Jaguar is more suitable for four wheel drive.

Mercedes calls four wheel drive system as 4MATIC and BMW calls it xDrive. Audi already had the Quattro for very long time.

PS: Four wheel drive option in Mercedes and BMW may not able available in right hand drive models!

 

For more information please visit the German website of Mercedes and BMW

 

Ferrari with Tilting Rear Seats

In recent weeks lots of things were written about the new Ferrari FF. But I would like highlight only one sentence from Montezemolo;

"...you can increase the luggage capacity by tilting the rear seats..."

I have nothing to add to this sentence! A Ferrari with 800lt of luggage capacity. Just watch the last ten minutes of the YouTube video. And my proposal for Ferrari FF optional kit, a tow bar!

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Ferrari Estate: FF

This years Geneva Motor Show has something really interesting, actually something really unexpected. It is the Ferrari FF!

Ferrari new very innovative four wheel drive, four seater car with 800 lt of boots space. It is really unbelievable see a Ferrari with this kind of huge boots space.

Unfortunately this is the fate of every fast. I don't know why but high performance is now being associated with huge boot space. I think people are get bored changing car and they want to something which can do everything.

This weird addition started with Audi rs6, then Mercedes E63 and BMW M5 and Ferrari FF. Okay, except Ferrari FF the rest of these cars are estate but when you consider the traditional size of a Ferrari, ff is an estate.

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