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PetrolBlog is the unashamedly unfashionable car blog, championing the rare, the obscure, the mundane, and then forgotten. With one foot in the 80s and the other in the 90s, PetrolBlog will occasionally wander a little off-piste, in search of gems from the 60s and 70s, and identify the new cars that might be PB heroes of the future.
PetrolBlog
4h ago
Renault calls it “a new era of service for classic car enthusiasts”, and there's no doubt that the launch of ‘The Originals Renault’ is an exciting move. There's just one problem: it's not available in the UK. Not yet, anyway ..read more
PetrolBlog
4h ago
The Renault Vel Satis is what happens when a French car company is told that its current flagship isn’t French enough. How else do you explain Renault’s two-pronged attack on the premium executive segment, which delivered the Avantime and Vel ..read more
PetrolBlog
18h ago
No, you’re right; the car best known as the Honda Jazz Mk1 wasn’t the first Jazz. That honour belongs to the Honda City, sold here as the Jazz and on sale in the UK from 1983 until 1986. The City and its many derivates deserve more than a passing ..read more
PetrolBlog
5d ago
Renault’s rufty-tufty version of the Kangoo was announced as the Trakka, but its name was changed to Trekka, making it sound less like a cereal bar and more like an item of footwear you’d find in Millets. Both would come in handy on a ..read more
PetrolBlog
6d ago
The fourth-generation Ypsilon is the only new Lancia you can buy. That in itself is a reason for us to consider flying the Petrolblog flag at half-mast. We miss the old Lancia like we miss Saab ..read more
PetrolBlog
1w ago
Pity the poor Chrysler Crossfire Coupé owners. For 20 years, they have been forced to listen to endless regurgitations of Clarkson’s quip about its canine-like posterior, often accompanied by the kind of sniggering you hear when somebody thinks ..read more
PetrolBlog
1w ago
It’s been a decade since Volvo shut the hatch on the three-door market. The strictly five-door V40 replaced the resolutely three-door C30 in 2013, as Volvo responded to a changing market.  ..read more
PetrolBlog
1w ago
As Mick Jagger will tell you, it’s not always possible to get what you want. It’s for this reason that I’m starting this confessional on the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo (GT) by paying homage to the North American Honda Crosstour, née Accord ..read more
PetrolBlog
1w ago
In February 2013, I found myself in France on the launch of the Mini Clubvan. A small group of respected motoring journalists (and me) were invited ..read more
PetrolBlog
2w ago
One of the many successes of the AMC series Breaking Bad was the choice of vehicles. That’s AMC as in American Movie Classics, rather than American Motors Corporation, although Braking Bad would be a ..read more