Tag Archives: cars
Mar-2013
I am alive. Fresh start after a three month break (honestly I am not sure if I have ever before been three months without a single blog update, and I have had this blog since 2008… this was a personal record). What did I do when I returned home from the road trip in mid-November? [...]
Dec-2012
This man has a car collection I wouldn’t say no to, and also a home I absolutely want – SO COOL! URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business. From a workshop in downtown Los Angeles, Magnus [...]
It is quite a surreal feeling waking up in your own bed, without car keys on your bedside table, and not having to drive anywhere today. In a way it feels like I never even left Finland, yet in the back of my head I have all these memories from places I’ve been to in [...]
I’ve just spent 50 hours in Hamburg and 28 of them together with a local petrolhead – best city guide I’ve ever had. Not only did I get tours around the city in a Morgan Plus 8 and an Aston Martin V12 Vantage (yes, really…), but I also got the complete petrolhead treatment – McLaren [...]
I had a grand plan that when I arrive to Stuttgart today I’m going to dedicate an evening to doing blog posts and editing photos – but I wish. I’ve been driving and photographing almost non stop today – first I drove around 200 km to Stuttgart in the morning, then Mercedes-Benz Museum, then Porsche [...]
Oct-2012
After my sailing adventure in La Maddalena I took a much needed timeout. I had a voucher to spend at the accommodation booking website Wimdu.com so I did a search for Sardinia, found an apartment in a town called Dorgali that I booked, and changed my ferry booking from Olbia to Livorno thanks to Direct [...]
Oct-2012
I spent yesterday drooling over some of the fine things in life. First I did some four wheel drooling, can admit that I would really like this Subaru Impreza WRX STI version 6 to be the first thing I see in the morning when I wake up and look out from the window (or perhaps even this - [...]
Oct-2012
First driving heaven dream come true on this trip – well, after Nürburgring, but I didn’t actually drive on the track so can’t count that in – was Grimsel Pass and right after it, Furka & Oberalp Pass. I don’t think many people would write about the world’s best driving roads without including them – [...]
My last stop in France before going over the border to Switzerland was Mulhouse. Not because of the city itself, but because of the Cité de l’Automobile car museum – Schlumpf Collection. There is such an overwhelming amount of cars there. Although the really vintage cars are interesting to look at, I personally prefer when [...]
My mum asked me today why I haven’t updated the blog. I told her I have like 15 drafts waiting to be published but so many photos (and videos) and everything and there’s not enough free time after driving, eating, exploring and sleeping. But I’ll need to do something about it, so many nearly finished [...]
This evening I arrived to La Bresse in the Vosges mountain valleys – still in Lorraine, although I went to the Alsace side today to check out the rallies. Driving today has been a nightmare – short story about that here. First I did a little hill climbing to Forêt d’ Abreschviller and if you [...]
Oct-2012
I had one free day in Paris without any motorshow activities and used that wisely – I walked around for almost 7 hours. Took the metro from Vanves where I stayed (nice area) to Louvre and then walked, walked, walked… The funny thing was that I didn’t take a single photo of the city. And [...]
I asked a friend on Facebook where I should drive – 3 days time and nearly 700 km to drive from Hörstel, Germany to Paris. 2 stops along the way and I could get away with driving around 250 km per day. Plans changed – because he said go to Nürburgring. I actually had thought [...]
Sep-2012
One of the cars I looked forward to seeing live most was the new McLaren P1. And wow… gorgeous. Sadly only a small amount of people got to take closeup pics of it because of long queues and show coming to an end, but no closeups needed to be honest, I enjoy watching the big [...]
Currently all day at the Paris Motor Show and sadly not a lot of spare time for any kind of live updates, it’s reveal after reveal and an insane amount of cars to photograph… so will publish photos tonight and tomorrow instead when all press conferences are over. But hey, I did find enough time [...]