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Toyota sal sekerlik die vergelyking verskoon as mens sou sê dat die eerste kennismaking met die veeldoelige Innova (MPV) jou laat dink aan die seuntjie wat op sy eerste dag skool toe gaan in ‘n broek, baadjie en skoene wat ooglopend te groot vir hom is.
Toyota is on the rebound after a few reliability niggles landed them on the wrong end of a witch hunt. Old foes and new competitors are clawing at market share so the Japanese giant had to think fast and aims to fight back with increased quality and quantity of products.
Many car manufacturers like to make a big noise about their latest product and urge you to buy the best thing since sliced biltong. Most of their marketing efforts are just steam-powered self-promotion but occasionally a grain of truth slips through…
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the waves of productivity at work – one week you’re shooting angry birds at green pigs, the next you consider cloning yourself. The poor Peugeot 5008 arrived in just such a week, when I could hardly care about another test car.
What happens when you give a kite-surfer to a nun or an ipad to your granny? The same thing that happens when you give a bachelor a seven-seater family MPV to test: they have no idea what to do with it. I had no clue how to review the new Mazda 5 until I had the following brain wave:
Om na die Peugeot 3008 te verwys as Franse “flair” by uitnemendheid is miskien om jou kop te ver uit te steek aangesien dit ‘n term is wat heelwat verskillende persepsies kan uitlok. Maar dan moet daar ook in gedagte gehou word dat die term “flair” (wat moeilik in Afrikaans vertaalbaar is) ook heel dikwels gebruik word om na die hoë risiko rugby te verwys wat eie aan die Franse is – en soms heel rampspoedige gevolge kan hệ.