www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

I love cars and I get fascinated by it. I love them curvy too! I am sure many of you do too. If I migrate it would probably be due to car prices. The decrease of COE supply that cost car prices to escalate does note help. Any how, let me show you some worthy marques. You will love them! Give them wings and they will fly! I am saving up for this Ford but I'll have to find a new place to store my parking coupons before I flip them doors. Ford has always made wonderful drivers' cars. They have a great chassis and if you now your drive, you will know that it is the chassis that makes a car very able and drivable. It enables sharp cornering and response. They come with a very well-weighted steering too which gives great feedback from the roads. It is surprising why Ford is not in the forefront of things here when they are in the USA and Europe. But I think the last few years seem to be the Year of the Cat! The Jaguars - XFR & XJ. They are more t...

What Car? There was a time when Singapore roads were teeming with largely European vehicles - Vauxhall (Viva), Morris, Fiat (124), Opel (Kaldett), Ford (Anglia, Capri), etc. Then came the Japanese invasion (of cars I mean) with Toyota Corolla, Mark II, Datsun (SSS) now Nissan since they were cheaper and gave better fuel economy. Along came a Pony from Hyundai which someone I knew bought. At that time after sitting in his Pony I told myself I would never buy one. The fittings were flimsy, interior lacked character, design quality was not there and the windows jammed after a few months. For many years after, cars continue to go rusty after a few years especially the Fiat and even Honda which buyers avoided because they used to make only motorcycles. Fast forward to the present day, Toyota's name was synonymous with reliability to the current fiasco of their recalls even as they reached number one. Mazda for some years in recent times were reported to be the most reli...

From our childhood days of matchbox toy cars and sitting in coin-operated car that sings a lullaby, most boys do have passion for their set of wheels. I got my very own first set in 1985, a second-hand Toyota Corolla DX for a scary sum of $12,400. I remembered vividly I took a company loan and they gave me a single piece of $10k note to bring along for payment. But as in most used cars of our time, the car suffered numerous breakdowns - my first brush with used car salesman. That's why they said politicians are like used car salesman. I was trying to save fuel $ in 1986 (recession year), so I switched to a tiny 1 litre Daihatsu Charade which did an amazing 16km for a litre of petrol. Once, I carried 2 huge masaleh visiting from Europe and going up the U-turn at Scotts, the car couldn't get up the steep slope till I turned off the aircon and the guest in the front seat was so huge he had his tumm...

My baby has big ears and nose...with slanted eyes and a sweet smile. She weighs in at 1449 kgs. Geoffmobile is borrowed from Batmobile. More appropriately, you can call it Oxmobile since I was born in the year of the Ox. Mazda has a sports heritage and was famous for making the rotary engine. They are currently partly owned by Ford who actually makes wonderfully good cars to drive due to their driving dynamics. Superior road holding, brilliant steering feedback and F1 type cornering without tailspin are part of the package. Ford owns Volvo and Jaguar too so do not be surprised that sometimes these cars share the same chassis and platform. The chassis is one of the most important part of what makes a car a driver's car. The previous version of the Mazda 6 shared the same chassis as the Ford Mondeo in the same year which made it such a hot drive when it was release...