Olivier (CT's grammar commie)
Bilingual (FR/EN/maybe ES) petrolhead for as long as memory goes back, so since the age of 3. Loves everything, with Honda slightly higher. BoRiNg theory as well. Dank meme enthusiast.
Articles by Olivier (CT's grammar commie)
Garage
01/05/22
Bought it in early July of 2021, I wanted something nice that was faster than my Civic and that would be faster than the SX4 I sold earlier, and importantly, that would not require any work on it to be drivable.
Garage
01/05/22
Bought this in July of 2020 (or very late June, can’t recall), was supposed to be my winter car (so I could get my Civic off the road for the winter) but my parents divorced at the beginning of the winter and my mom was left with no car so I gave it to her until she bought one, but she only bought her car the following spring when there was no snow left.
Garage
08/11/19
Second car! Already been about two months since I’ve bought it, but it still looks exactly the same. It replaced the Mazda, because the Mazda was beginning to get worse and worse, and I did not have the space to store it somewhere.
Opinion
25/09/17
Back in the beginning of the 1950s, Mercedes-Benz, who managed to get back up on its legs quite fast after the end of World War II, was still quite weak, after the difficulties of WWII, and wanted quickly to get their pre-war glory back. In 1952, they managed to get a lot of victories with the 300 SL (W194) -which was not very powerful, but pretty light- including the 24 hours of Le Mans, the Carrera Panamerica, Bern-Bremgarten, etc..
Garage
10/08/17
My first car, bought on August 10th. It got the 2.3L engine, which is developping a correct 160 hp, and (sadly) coupled to an automatic 4-speed tranny, but hey I still got a sequential mode. It had 107 200 km when I bought it August 10th, which was pretty low for a 12-years old car: it now has around 114 700 km as on November 3rd, 2017. It does around 8L/100 km in average, and I do 85% of my mileage on highway/road, but I expected a bit worse. Sure, it would probably consume less with the 5-speed manual tranny (I’m at 3000 rpm on 4th gear at 105 km/h on the highway), but I got what I got.