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5 reasons to love and hate the Ford C-MAX
Let us leave scholastic debates to specialists about who first decided that minivans can be made on the basis of compact models of the C segment – the French, the Germans, or even the Japanese, moreover ten years earlier. One thing is clear: in the ranks of compact Ford C-MAX is not the last place …
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So that the car does not burn: how to disconnect the mass
A sudden car fire is, fortunately, not too frequent, but it is quite common enough to cause serious phobias in many drivers. Especially those who at least once in their life saw a blazing car or its black “skeleton” on the side of the road … Many believe that only a mass switch will help to escape from this. They are right, but the inconvenience from the switch often exceeds its usefulness. However, at least one correct option to install the switch is. Continue reading
Dead end: why GAZ-3111 did not become a mass car
Already in the late eighties, a few years before the official “demise” of the USSR, each fundamentally new model was given to Soviet automobile plants with great difficulty. The exception is perhaps the VAZ with its “figure of eight”, which managed to launch it even before the restructuring. But the Zaporozhye Tavriya, a front-wheel Moskvich and other cars, markedly different from their predecessors, got up on the conveyor with great difficulties, and many did not become serial at all. Continue reading
