Renault Megane Coupe 2009
I would like to write a little review of 2009 Renault Megane Coupe. As I noticed there isn’t much noise over the Internet about this car. You have Toyota, Honda, Fiat and VW everywhere in the media, magazines, youtube, forums… and what is the most disturbing, on the roads. And Renault? Just few short reviews around the premiere date and afterwards… nothing – complete silence. And I assure You that it’s not about their cars being worse than these mentioned above. A little warning is needed here in the beginning: This review will be extremely subjective. Read more…
Below You will find new VW Polo commercials.
Considering their content, they are pretty nice to watch. In both cases VW is showing groups of young people. Talking about new way of living, style, mentioning ecology… Or showing the car to work like chick magnet 
Why do I post them here? What makes them worth mentioning along 500 other commercials. These 2 don’t fit the car at all. This is a VW – what means: it’s boring as watching polish soccer team play. Read more…
Smart scientists once discovered that when we look at the cars, we use the same part of our brains as we use for peoples faces, to recognize them.
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Probably that is why they are designed the way they are: lights on the sides – eyes… some grill or badge – nose, and bumper – mouth etc. And the same way we feel the mimic emotions and character: like Mini has wide open and cheerful eyes… And new Mitsubishi Lancer is aggressive (narrow headlights descending to the middle)…
Knowing that… why do the designers put all these funny, ugly or sad faces on the cars…
Why “bottoms” – rears?
Because that is what we see the most of the time on the streets. We stand behind the cars in traffic lights. We are forced to look at their rears … And some of them are just harmful to our feelings
Check out the following photos of horrid modern car designs from this decade, below…
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Tags: bmw, Citroen, design, Fiat, Lexus, Nissan, rear, Renault, Seat, Skoda, top 10, Volvo, VW
Renault banned in China
I just read the news, that China refuses to import Renault cars due to: “safety problems” found by China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision. It have never been more obvious that we are talking about politics here, not the real quality problem.
Renault is famous of their cars safety. All currently sold passenger cars got the highest notes in Euro NCAP safety tests. On the other hand we have China, that produces cars, that are… how to say… “safe the other way” (meaning rubbish). In all NCAP tests, they all got very low safety ratings. And they still allow to drive them there.
Yet they refuse to accept the Renault cars. They blacklisted Laguna, Scenic and Megane models. And nobody knows (besides the Chinese agency) what are the safety problems in particular.
AFAIK there is no special car series produced for Chinese market – Renault is producing the cars for all regions in few of their factories. So it’s pretty safe to assume that Renault didn’t try to sell them “worse quality” versions, as they all come from the same factories.
I think that this ban has something to do with giving he exiled Tibetan spiritual leader – the Dalai Lama, honorary citizenship of Paris three days ago. The award was condemned by Chinese government.
Based on news from: onet.pl
The world car market is a complicated thing. Every major producer has it’s strategy, like every country has it’s local taste and characteristic. For ex. the US market doesn’t like diesel engines, don’t care about interior design much, must have huge bumpers. Europe on the other hand likes smaller cars, don’t use hybrids (cause diesel is cheap) and has worse prices on cars
Also there are international brands that work only locally. French trio: Renault, Citroen and Peugeot are not present in US. Fiat and Alfa planned to go accross the ocean in 2010 – but due to current car industry situation, nobody knows if they will. Also brands already present in US, choose models that will be sold in US and Europe separately.
Renault, Alfa, Opel, Honda...
Below You will find a list of 7 cars, that I find to go under category “fun” cars. hey are available to buy in Europe, but were not (so far) introduced to the US buyer. They’re all affordable options.
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