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Unlike its twin sister Kia , Hyundai does have some sporting pedigree and to be specific I should say the World Rally Championship . The name of the Korean manufacturer been present in the competition since 1998 and it was run by a British company called Motor Sport Development , they competed with the Accent WRC and their standings were not that encouraging because they were battling against giants like Peugeot , Mitsubishi and others but Hyundai Motorsport decided to proceed with following their dreams .  Now the motorsport division or as it is called Hyundai Shell World  Rally Team is based in Germany are doing very good in comparison to their debut 20 years ago with a second place and 237 points in total of the championship so far . People runing the Motorsport division in Germany thought that this is the right moment to unveil a car that celebrates their legacy and to cement their name among other motorsport divisons by making a road going car with some tweaks take...

The car before you is the embodiment of the words heritage and legacy , it is the Renault Alpine A110 and it is back !! After more than 20 years of truancy the company behind one of the most iconic models decides to give it another try with a bespoke design and performance. Just when Porsche thought that the playground is free and that the small performance cars market is within reach , Renault decided to take the burden of facing the German Titan . The dramatic lines  of the car are surely inspired by the model from the 1970's and Renault wanted to reaffirm that through the cars circular headlights , the  shape of bonet and backend of the Alpine . The car is small in terms of height and width to give it the maximum efficiency and make an airbender out of it . The new Alpine was released at the 86th edition of Geneva Motor Show and it did turn heads by virtue of its undeniable enriched legacy . Before I proceed with the details that make the Alpine one of the be...

When Jaguar released a four cylinder F-type , I thought to myself " well ,after all these years , Jaguar are getting softer " especially when they gave us the V8 F-type and the SVR with their insane engines and exhausts tune . Fortunately I was wrong , because Jaguar has released its most powerful road going car ever made . It is based on the classy XE that was meant to rival the BMW M3 and the Alfa Romeo Guilia . The car is still called the XE but with a " Special Vehicle Operations " with a project 8 badge on the sides . The car is hand made , litreally , because it was assembled by people from Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations technical center located in Warwickshire England . The car has bigger intakes , wider body kit and the most chubby tires you can get from Jaguar . The project 8 has 265 tyres at the front and herculian 305 rear rubbers mounted at the back so the car can hug the asphalt with out slipping uncontrollably . Because people from...

This is the Renault Zoe E-Sport , a small hatch that can only drive you to conduct a scrutiny or in my case an extensive investigation to catch up with the latest technology that is being developed by auto makers . The car was introduced at the 2017 Geneva motor show and it is indeed a great looking creature from Renault . The futuristic sharp design give the car great aerodinamics , the satin blue with the loud lively yellow lines which are inspired from the Formula E racing car is spot on and that made me literally fall in love with it , I genuinely cannot keep my eyes of it !  In my opinion the use of electric engine is inevitable . We can all agree on this because car makers like Prosche, McLaren , BMW and the newly emerging Rimac are all using these small weight savers. I remember when Ferrari introduced LaFerrari , they said that the electric motor in it was only meant to asses the combustion unit and that they are not interested in Hybrid cars like the 918 and the P1...

There is an old saying in the motorsport industry that says " if you want to win get a Finn" and that saying proved to be true in Formula and WRC with names that I am not interested in mentioning because the main interest of this blog is a new saying : "If you want to make great cars get yourself a German" . I know that is not the most ryhmed sentence in the world but it will transfer the message vividly to all other automakers .  Kia , unexpectedly decided to throw its first , rather bold attempt to depict the meaning of a sports sedan , they wanted to make a car that gives some serious jabs to the German gods from this segment of the automotive industry . The strategy followed by Kia and Hyundai group is simple , get Germans to work on your projects . That is why the new Kia was developed and designed by Albert Biermann , a man that used to work for the M departement from BMW . He once described the new Kia as his "long awaited baby" . That is u...

Throughout recent years , Audi became the brand that personifies the meaning of maturity , meaning if you own an Audi you can enjoy your life responsibly . To understand further more  what Audi means in the automotive world , you can picture it as your next door neighbor that tells you to keep it down if you are having a party so he can read his " Beyond good and evil " by Nietzsche in total serenity. The new 2018 RS5 is not different from other Audis , my frist impression about this car was pragmatic agressivness meaning that the car knows when and how to be alive and herculian but it chooses to be more practical and  tamed to serve the gran touring needs that it was meant for . What gives the moderate yet aggressive looks of the new RS5 is undoubtedly its big and refined front grill with the intakes . The grill is narrower and wider for better cooling and air consumption . The headlights are the reason why this car looks less combative more civilized and orga...