julkinen
Antti Kautonen
julkinen
Automotive writer based in Finland. Never paid more than two grand for a car. Currently drives a manual turbodiesel wagon.

My NA cost 770 eur in the country from where it got here, and it passed MOT with penny repairs. It might been the cheapest not-horrible MX-5 in Europe.

No Torsen, though. Read more

Bosch: Volkswagen Sharan / Seat Alhambra with a lot of weird things happening inside due to Bosch electronics failing

Cleopatra: Mercedes 600 Pullman

Martin Luther: Audi 100... with the throttle nailed to the floor, I guess.

DaVinci: Anything that’s RHD, with the dashboard in mirror configuration down to the gauges and Read more

I drive a Miata with a really messed up plastic rear screen. The best solution for any parking problems is just to drop the top so I can actually see where I'm reversing, at a tight spot for example. Of course, if it's really freaking cold I don't do that, so the cracked screen doesn't get worse. Read more

It's just scanned by someone from Ferrari's pubic relations department. Read more

It's like a Tiburon mixed with a Cavalier, Cobalt, Paseo and a Renault Mégane. Read more

My daily driver in a nutshell: Manual gearshift, manual windows, manual steering, enormous clock in the place of a tachometer, no rear wiper, no central locking, AM/FM stereo with the cassette deck dead.

But it has 5 speeds and it's RWD. I'm happy. Read more

It's not a great car, but it looks great. Rust and bad taste have claimed many, nice ones will be rare. Read more

Took me ages to get back on the horse after this.

Yeah, it's perfectly honest about what it is. Good car for the money. Read more

I'm fine with the 1.5-litre engine if that means it's substantially cheaper. Probably means it'll cost exactly the same in our Euroland as the 2.0-litre one costs in the States. Read more

His face looks like it's got Photoshop smart blur on it IRL. Read more