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- Drives an Alfa Romeo Giulietta and a 1996 Alfa Romeo Spider when the suns shines at the weekend. Gradate of Coventry University, Britain's Detroit.
![Many of us have been there: Booked a holiday or a flight, and reserved a hire car to collect at the airport. Sometimes, if you’re brave or optimistic, you specify […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP_20180625_11_24_14_Pro_LI.1.jpg "Rental Car Blues: Have You Ever Been Disappointed By A Holiday Hire Car? There Is A Solution")
![(Originally posted 5 August 2018) Yesterday CC saw the highlights of the UK brands at the Festival of the Unexceptional and the Concours de l’Ordinaire. Today, it’s time to look […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DSC08825-2.jpg "Car Show Report – The 2018 Festival Of The Unexceptional Featuring The Concours De L’Ordinaire – Part 2 – The European and Japanese Brands")
![(Originally posted 4 August 2018) Car shows come in all shapes and sizes, from the adhoc gathering outside a pub on a summer evening with relaxed, informal conversation to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DSC08860-2.jpg "Car Show Report – The 2018 Festival Of The Unexceptional Featuring The Concours De L’Ordinaire – Part 1 – The UK Brands")
![Last Monday, I did what everyone who transfers from driving a petrol fuelled car to a diesel fuelled car, or has a mixed fuel fleet, always dreads. I misfuelled my […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WP_20180710_10_42_05_Pro_LI.jpg "QOTD: Have You Ever Made A Really Stupid Mistake?")
![The Rover 3500 (SD1) has long been a favourite, since I crept out of school to buy Autocar and Motor’s special editions in July 1976, but seeing one on the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/40951713670_86499fa80a_o.jpg "Cohort Outtake: 1980-82 Rover 3500 (SD1) – It Still Moves Me")
![One of the pleasures of being a Curbivore is never knowing what you might see. I was recently at a small but perfectly formed classic car show, in the grounds […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/WP_20180617_10_32_09_Pro_LI.jpg "Carshow Outtake – 1954 FBW AN35V: The Forecast Is For Classic Sunshine In The Alps")
![Like many Curbivores and car enthusiasts, I have a strong fondness for Alfa Romeo, for having perhaps the greatest motorsport heritage of any accessible brand, a history of distinctive and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC00691.jpg "My New Future Curbside Classic: Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.6JTDm-2 120 – Not Exactly How They Do It At Audi")
![Replacing a successful, long term owned car is never easy, and is one you may well have grappled with at some point over the years. I know I have, more […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AUDIA3Sportback-5doors-4825_16-horz-vert.jpg "QOTD: How Should I Replace My Current Car?")
![The Peugeot 504 was perhaps the car that truly justified the title “the French Mercedes”. Not only did it have a similar spot in the market in France to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/504.1.jpg "CC For Sale: 1976 Peugeot 504 Diesel – More At Home In France Than Seattle")
![Travel genuinely broadens the mind; it adds new facts and information about places, people and cultures, it corrects misconceptions, it can stimulate ideas in both the traveller and the host, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DSC06426.jpg "CC Global: “It’s A Honda, Jim, But Not As We Know It” – Car Spotting In New Zealand")
![One thing we all learn about car ownership, sometimes with a first car, sometime not, is knowing when to change. Sometimes we time it right, sometimes not and sometimes we […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC01882-2.jpg "CC Long Term – 2011 Ford Fiesta Zetec 1.4TDCi: Knowing When To Stick Or Twist")
![One of the great things about being a Curbivore is that you never know when it might be necessary to go into Full Active Curbivore mode, without notice. Such an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC00430-1.jpg "Carshow Outtake: Unexpected Veteran Car Encounter")
![If you ask anyone under, say 40, to name the best handling, most driver focused, affordable sports car around, there’s a more than fair chance that they would suggest the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/europa3.jpg "Carshow Classic: 2007 Lotus Europa S – Who Wants To Grow Up?")
![I should start this personal review with a confession. I understand the fully capable SUV, perhaps best personified by the Land Rover Discovery, Jeep Grand Cherokee or Toyota Highlander. The idea that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0946.jpg "Future CC Driving Impression: 2016 Jeep Renegade 1.6 Multijet Limited – Never Mind The Capability, Admire The Pastiche")
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American Brands: Ford 
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Automotive Histories and Misc. 
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