Cars...

Volvo Although I wasn't yet in that phase of life where I had a need for a Swedish wagon suitable to go shopping at IKEA or transport holiday portions of dipers, the V50 that I was allowed to drive by my company has been a good companion over the last 2 years. Driving & built quality are superb, belonging to the best I have driven so far. In a country where speedlimits are limited in stead of the speed itself, driving a 109hp car is not too much fun. Good for city driving, but on the highway, pleasure is limited. With my new A4, that is hopefully going to be much much better..... Specs: Volvo              V50 Engine            1600 cc Turbo Diesel Power             109 hp Top Speed       190 km/h
Alfa Romeo After my return from China, my employer allowed me to rent a car for a while since I have sold my Lancia when I went there and have nothing to move around in... The standard is "Golf class". Fortunately, Avis has some other cars in their fleet that are much more interesting then Golf... Of course, most of these cars are in a different class. With some smooth negotiations, I managed to arrange this beautiful Alfa Romeo Spider convertible... a car nobody wants to rent during winter time.. except me of course.. ... a hell of a ride.... and the police in the Netherlands are on strike these days! :-)  Specs: Alfa Romeo     Spider Engine            2198 cc Gasoline Power             185 hp Top Speed       222 km/h
Lancia With a Lancia Delta, I drove something out of the ordinary in Germany. Germans don't like Italian cars because of their bad reputation, but mainly because Italian cars are....not German! But now, after almost two years, I had to sell this beautiful machine.... I couldn't take it to Shanghai as spare parts would be hard to get here.. I did have some problems with her, but she never let me down... Specs: Lancia            δ Delta 1.8 LE Engine            1756 cc Gasoline Power             90 hp Top Speed      180 km/h
Opel I should not forget to mention the first car I owned! I bought it from Arjan's mother. It was an Opel Corsa 1.2 built in 1987 with 220.000km. This incredibly reliable car brought me to every place I wanted to go! I decided to scrap and replace her, because I thought that she would not survive 4 months in Italy. I am still wondering if she would have performed less as my Lancia did.... I hope that the junkyard people decided not to waste such a good car and changed her into this Corsa Herbie version. Specs: Not worth to mention........

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