Comments by "HesteBremse" (@HesteBremse) on "Auto Express" channel.

  1. Perhaps they should have considered to make it some kind of Targa solution instead of a soft top. With a "targa" frame the could have kept the initial rigigness, added some utility for e.g Sutf board mounts or similar - The big challenge would naturally have been how to easily open and close such a solution.
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  2. Difficult...If I could have only one car for everything I´d take the Turbo, otherwise I would opt for the McLaren - It is slightly more special somehow and I do not like the looks of the new R8 much I must admit - still a super cool car and the engine sounds awesome but exterior design has to many stopping lines that kills the flow, compared to the 1st edition. A bit baffled that the Turbo got beaten but Tires makes a huge difference when it is so close.
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  3. I like this "vs version", nicer lead in, with the road abilities, but I miss the lap time. Which perhaps would have been interesting in this comparison. Driving a WRX with all that exterior shouting and then to get beaten by a conservative and well sorted Audi at the traffic light, does not leave much up for the WRX. I can´t remember exactly but the 2.5 boxer is rather thirsty too is it not?. Honestly I thought a WRX was a bit wilder all in all. - If possible I would really like to see a laptime for each. Without it the Audi is nearly a no brainer choice between the two as portrayed in this vid. I would for certain take the Audi here, just think about the depreciation as one part of the bargain. If a car looks as wild as the WRX then it better be as wild IMO.
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  4. Well the only thing wrong with it is properly the Name; Renault "Kadjar" Pronounced "Kadkai".... and the only thing wrong with the vid is 360p resolution - Hangovers anybody ? forgot the settings or what...lol
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  5. Thats a handy mirror if someone needs to powder their nose... Would like to see the customer analysis on this car.
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  6. I like how they are pushing the functionality on the dash and buttons - they are a  bit daring which I find refreshing. Have to see it in real but it starts to occur slightly too big to be called a "Mini" - Off course its the brand name never the less.
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  7. Interesting Review - I had expected something completely different - Seams like Porsche did not go far enough with the GTS models - by now the the old 911 vs Boxter, Cayman should more or less be bygones but apparently not so sadly.
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  8. +Hen zo being better at what exactly? in your opinion - And what has the "Porsche jumped" to do with anything in that regard ??
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  9. +justin bouche Yes for sure not an easy choice - The R8 is far more dramatic and the sound is simply brilliant, thus and despite personally not being absolutely sold on the new design, the R8 is a more interesting car to look at. But would I drive it around everyday or would I need a secondary car to get off the attention and drama once in a while ? perhaps - but I´m quite sure I would not have to do that with the 911 Turbo S.Being sensible the 911 is the obvious Monster daily driver but does that make the R8 less attractive ?? bla blab blablala
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  10. Well it looks damn good in this trim IMO, but I thought the new real M car is the M2...
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  11. 8,215 views / 65,284 Likes / 14,451 Dislikes ?!?!?! Something is wrong with the tube numbers - Just had about the Same Likes and Dislikes on an Elon Musk video...
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  12. It surely looks good for this segment IMO - It should be able to compete with the 3 Series, C-class and A4 if it drives well. Think it will appeal most to people who normally would buy a 3 Series, but Audi customers might also take an extra look but for them the Cabin feel will be crucial and this might be a bit on the sport bling side. If it will shake the Mercedes fans idk, they tend often to be on the posh side and that Star means a lot - But okay it´s a Jaguar not a Japanese brand. let´s see some reviews. I quite surprised that Jaguar has managed to produce a whole new line of engines - That is good news for the Brand. 
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  13. Alex Mason No I do not mean the i8, Just Google (images): "bmw i3 concept coupe" and you will see the concept that was the last public concepts car before the i3 hit market.
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  14. It´s more than fast enough for most people and a quite good all rounder and on the design side it is close to a Sleeper for non car enthusiast - Which I recon is properly the most fun part about having one of these. Not my favorite car but still I would not mind the keys to one. Design wise it still keeps it´s proportions very well has not overgrown and remains fairly compact - It´s not stunning but neither is it ugly in anyway. A well balanced and super fast compact car that can be driven all year around everyday.
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  15. +Dicer328 hhahahaha! ROFL
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  16. +Max Boulton ROFL!
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  17. It actually looks better on footage than on stills, perhaps it is better in the Metal. Wish I could be in Geneva this time...
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  18. I like it, but I never understood that "XL Sport" signage design - That is so Toilet Cleaner Un Sexy style it screams to the heavens - Only a German on a bad day with hangovers working deep in a kind of VW logic routine could come up with this. Add to this "XL" for car that essentially is ultra small and very low makes absolutely no sense - what a blunder. But the car itself is pretty cool.
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  19. Question, How much faster is an F1 Car? Answer; "A lot faster"....
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  20. Well apart from the ups and downs on this review this Megane looks pretty good, very contemporary and with some well balanced design features. I like that the French are doing well, since they land in between the Germans and the Asians in a very nice and french way.
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  21. I find it rather amazing that they have managed to keep the rigidity the same as the Coupe - That fact kind of nearly nullifies and doubts about buying this car if you live in a part of the world where the sun shines most of the time, yes even further north one would properly only drive this car in the summer half of the year and it would still be pretty viable since its a hardtop. I had the pleasant experience seeing a red 458 Italia, close the a red 488 last week both parked in the expensive shopping street of Berlin. And I must say that the 488 GTB looks better - The side intakes add to he curvature and lines and makes it more muscular, looks slightly wider and a bit more aggressive and planted than the 458 - It says; see me and respect me. Nothing wrong with the 458 but it´s amazing how the expression still is different.
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  22. I would for sure loved to have seen the track battle between those two. If the WRX would not put up a very strong fight and smile on your face driver experience I could see no reason to buy it over the tested Audi.
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  23. Hold back on those Dubstep Breaks pls.!! pretty off in this review for a big Family car - I´m happy I did not have it all over my living room stereo in the middle of the night. The Mondeo, well it´s properly very decent indeed and the front is good, but for looks it has become a too heavy - Those wheel overhangs are indeed not pretty in profile view. I like the lamps both front and rear.
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  24. That front design I really do not comprehend. The Renegade is bad too but that at least keeps some Jeep DRG DNA. They both look horrible in still images and a little better when in motion. The stance is quite okay, but not as good as the earlier generation Cherokee. From the rear and side they have managed to keep some Cherokee identity but it is overall an awkward direction - To my eyes it feels like they tried to hard making a new contemporary direction and then landed in the middle of the flight without reaching the end destination. But at least many of even the more expensive cars in the SUV market does not look well resolved either. Many of the German SUV´s actually looks very bad too but they have a stronger brand appeal so they can survive it. Jeep should perhaps have taken much closer look at what Range Rover (since their heritage is of similar nature of the true off road credentials) has accomplished in terms of creating a new generation DNA exterior design without losing it´s key visual identity. Wether one like the Evoque or not it is a marvel of compact SUV design for the hyped city customer. Though I´m really not a fan of the new Renegade I suspect that it will sell better than the Cherokee if it is priced correctly - That awkwardness will be much more acceptable in it´s segment also on export markets. On the other hand this Cherokee might not loose too much on it´s home market, but as overseas export product I certainly have my doubt´s. The interior is simply not up to par design wise. It´s not bad, but it lacks distinctiveness and quite some bit of refinement for this segment. E.g. That gear leaver! it looks like something from +10 years ago - That is simply such a lame design for a brand new car in 2014. While certain areas like the digital designs are pretty well rounded the lesson of making the interior B and C areas much less visible and reachable, have not been applied well. I do not honestly understand why Jeep in 2014 will make such mistakes, with so many new talented designers around eager to get onboard.    Jeep is a good brand with a trustworthy heritage and I´m really happy that their cars remain excellent off road, but in this segment they competition is freaking hard and as stupid as it is, those SUV´s are not gonna go much in the mud. While the exterior is a subjective one, the interior is where the most time is spent behind the wheel. If Jeep make statements to be on par with AUDI in the interior quality and feel, there can be no room for mistakes or lack of dedication in design refinement (Then it´s better to under promise and over deliver). And I do not mean in material only - the good solutions usually is not only about how much can be spent on expensive high quality materials, but how much can be extracted in the shapes to create emotion and conceptual consistency enhancing the things that can bear it and hide those that can not. This interior suffers from lack of an overall conceptual consistency IMO. That is somehow not in line with the price tag. Take a lesson from the design approach of the new and also awkward looking BMW i3 - In that car there is no interior A areas, It´s nearly all B or C, but that cabin is contemporary if any. I´m not saying it´s the solution for many cars or to the like of all customers, far from it - but that is not the point - The conceptual approach towards making great interior without the all-out luxury direction is something that should be of interest to any company with a perhaps limited budget. Think it differently to make distinction and create more personality. Jeep certainly thought it differently on the outside so why go so average on the inside?. Seriously Jeep has created an ok, but rather awkward new Cherokee - Somehow they did not go far enough and landed blandly somewhere. If I was an advertising agency to launch this car outside the US I would ask; What is the main POS of this car? To that I can not find any answer...
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  25. Nice Review - this XC90 Looks better on live footage than on the first still images released. Interior looks very good indeed and finally Volvos interior DNA might happen to hit right on to the current minimalistic design trend.
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  26. I looks better filmed!!! than on the official stills - despite this bad filming quality. But I´ll still give it some critique cause it lacks conceptual commitment. This should clearly distinguish itself stronger from the other Prologue Concepts since it carries the name Allroad. No indications except the ride height, the very large wheels and the classic black fender additions makes one even think about taking this on a dusty road. And with automated suspension systems and AUDI´s 4x4 systems does one really need the Allroad unless it´s specially equipped to take a little more punishment in the terrain?. So I say it´s simply a waste conceptual effort, all the lines and main styling has already been made with the other Prologues. As a style study it very well made as to be expected from AUDI - But as a conceptual object it´s completely lacking any idea other than style and luxury - And frankly that is rather stalemate. Let me put it in another way; Its´like seeing a beautiful and elegantly dressed woman but by observing her eyes revealing no glimpse of charm or sex appeal comes to mind.
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  27. Well this is gonna be the next step, I certainly like it much better than the recent SUV, even that it has funky doors. And to those who think it is ugly I do not agree - This is by normal car proportions, by wheel stance and overall dynamics not exactly an ugly car, it is not goofy, radically breaking the norm for exterior proportions or otherwise try to look like so many weird takes on the hybrid and EV segment - It might not be to everybody´s taste and I´m not big on that C pillar - but at least it is a consistent cue over the range and does not try to mimic a 3 Series like a few other makers have done recently. Now I am a BMW fan and yes I like the 3 series better and there is also other cars in this segment that i do like a lot - but for an All Electric car with 250 mile range and a 6 sec sprint - this is by far one of the most interesting EV´s to be offered yet.
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  28. You if you did not know DARPA released a worldwide competition about a year ago or little more. The goal is to make a humanoid Robot within 2 years time. Among the criteria for then end Robot are; Ability to drive a vehicle, Ability to move over obstacles and debris, Ability to handle various handles, like heavy industrial Switches etc. All this came accordingly to DARPA because of the recent Nuclear catastrophe in Japan. At that time Honda was asked if Asimo could be used to send into the leaking radioactive plant to close important pipelines. But Asimo was not prepared for that task. A lot of people working on this right now but we should not forget who DARPA is; the American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. When e.g Google start to buy Robot developers and producers, it might be a very strong indication that something is gonna come with Robots in the not very far future. If this is good or bad news I do not know - Just that it could be both. There is already many concerns about the use of war drones now, the same kind of usage could be done with an advanced humanoid robot. Guess there is always more than one side to the most things. Google have furthermore stated that the expect Robots to be the next big business revolution, whatever that means in reality.  While the bee population are radically diminishing due to GMO Pesticides, British Scientist have created robotic pollinators, like small terminator insects - Somehow I must admit that I find it slightly alarming and to some degree scary. While there is no doubt that Robots can be applied with a lot of tasks and already is, replacing Bee´s with robots instead of removing the reason why the bee´s disappear just seams plainly wrong to me.
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  29. Cool, good footage and sound! Would someone make street tuner based on this look,,,,;D
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  30. The Panamera was never a real beauty, that rear glass prevent it from looking real good. This new Mercedes on the other hand looks like one would expect a big Mercedes Coupe to look - I find really well proportioned and I´m not a Mercedes fan, but they got this one right. If Porsche really would like a bite of that cake they should make a 2 door version of the Panamera, like a new 928 - many renders of such a thing is already to be found on the net. Somehow this AMG Coupe would be better up against a Bentley GT - It seams like a more appropriate rival; You want a big fast and super luxurious Coupe a Bentley GT will certainly be on the list a long side with this new AMG S-Class Coupe. But I can´t remember the price tag on a Bentley GT?. Ups I just read below that it was already put up against a Bentley and the MAG won - I wonder though what other rivals there really is to this S-Class coupé right now I cant really think of any. The Rolls would be to far apart in price, any Aston within pricerange ? - then there is the Audi RS5, the M6 Coupe but don´t they belong in segment below ?. 
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  31. DB9 is a very very beautiful car. But Aston had to move somewhere and IMO they have done quite a good job with this new design - was not so keen at the absolute very first glance but watched several videos and images as it starts to make quite good and delightfull sense. Hope to see on in real to really understand how it looks and how big it appears.
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  32. It´s a good question. Perhaps it is set up in away that still helps some stabilization or small downfroce pressure at high speed drifting so the wheels will stay connected when doing 150mph drifts, but as you can guess from my suggestion I do not have a clue
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  33. They should be cause it was really beautifully filmed and the review was excellent.
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  34. ThuhoanNguyen The old one is a "Bully" car - it´s big and muscular and says better make some space for me, Wether that is a good thing or not is debatable but it has a very clear statement and presence to it. The new one is very reserved and it might be a much better car but certainly does not portray much personality. I like the old better for exterior design no doubt about that. The Old Q7 is a remarkable monster SUV. I do not even like SUV´s much, they are essentially stupid because of how they are used - driving in cities and on the road - Too many materials and weight used that is essentially not needed at all. If you go off road or live in remote areas where weather conditions might be hard then then SUV´s makes good sense or for some types of goods transportation otherwise they are essentially a virus to the world.
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  35. Maximus Decimus Meridius Then just don´t watch
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  36. It´s a good car it seams, but should it not have been called Ford Focus SD or STD ?. In comparison the VW Golf GTI and GTD etc.
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  37. I´m quite happy that it does off road well, because that is what I would suspect a JEEP to do, similar to what I would expect from any Landrover Product - That heritage from the history of JEEP does not just go way in a blink and should also not IMO. It looks terrible on still images, but it looks slightly better in motion (Still it is a very awkward tall design with a rather bad stance impression as a result). I have been very critical on this new Renegade and it´s exterior design and the worst thing that could happen was if it would be a bad off roader which apparently it´s not -  that must help it´s credentials. I do understand that JEEP wan´t a bite of that market - if any USA brand should take it, then it should be JEEP. My guess is that the European market is not the only target for this Renegade, actually the looks might be better received in the East Asian markets and perhaps also in the South America. I have no real clue about how it will do in the home market, but my guess is that most American buyers still like it a bit more muscular than the expression of this new Renegade.  
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  38. Thats a great make from Ariel ;D
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  39. I´m a BMW fan but the dislikes on the video is a disgrace - And if there ever was an Audi looking really good then RS5 would certainly be part of that list. In the end I would still take the M4 but that gives me no reason to dislike this Video.
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  40. The new M235i is a very good daily drivers car no doubts - Would like to have one , But I love the M3 CSL.
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  41. It´s a planet...
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  42. Well if this illustrates how it will look in final production, then Jaguar have succeeded in creating one of the best, if not the best looking SUV in current production. (looks a subjective, but this big cat is very handsome for a SUV IMO. And I´m not fan of the SUV´s in General)
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  43. I find it weird that Jaguar has not nailed this already - They build a brand new car, new platform, everything and even now with this SVR version Mr. Sutcliffe is not really excited. If it is too high expectations towards at home brand I do not know, but I do not think so. But perhaps Jaguar have figured it out and will hit, as suggested in the video on, the absolute right spot for buyers of this car. Is the Jaguar F-Type hot in the USA ?
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  44. Lovely, but a bit too short, footage was really nicely captured would like to have enjoyed some more little snow style footage montage. But Cool ;D
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  45. Well it looks slightly better than I expected after all these horrible concepts - But it is still not any kind of beauty and in comparison to a Range Rover or what seams will be setting the next benchmark for SUV looks - the next F-Pace Jaguar, the Bentayga does not lit any delicious or Elegant lamps on my Dashboard. Ohh wait I forgot - The Rims are pretty nice and being as fast or even faster as a Cayenne Turbo S is pretty impressive.
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  46. +bimosalexandres Forsure, It looks much better than the Bentayga but that would also not take much - Never the less I find the Levante quite well designed for an SUV and especially for a first time SUV from a carmaker. If i think about how much the various big brands have struggled to transfer their DNA to the SUV segment then Maserati have done a great job with this one.
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  47. I do love both cars, I am a BMW Fan but I would say that the less skilled driver will do better "driving" in the Focus than in the Bimmer. I would take the M2 because I do not have kids and I do think i looks 16k more expensive, never the less had the M2 not been around the Focus would have been first on my Hot Hatch list.
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  48. Fantastic Review!. Though I disagree on the Looks...
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  49. Yes I would agree to that - it´s a more true rival for luxury, power and being a Coupe.
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  50. Umar Khan Thank You ;)
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