Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

First drive: 2018 Honda Civic Type-R, Civic DCT & Clarity in Japan

First drive: 2018 Honda Civic Type-R, Civic DCT & Clarity in Japan

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. July 4, 2017.

When we attended the Honda Meeting 2017 press conference in Japan, at the carmaker’s Tochigi R&D centre, we got an unexpected taste of some of the company’s latest products. The cars on hand to drive were the much-hyped Honda Civic Type-R, the new Honda Clarity range of hybrid/electric vehicles, and a Honda Civic Dynamic Study prototype. While our time with each of them was limited to a few minutes, if you ever get your hands on these on the same day, you’d have a completely different view of Honda as a carmaker than you would when walking into a local Honda showroom.

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2017 Land Rover Discovery

2017 Land Rover Discovery

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. July 1, 2017.

The Good:
– Cabin trim and features
– Great ride, safe handling
– Potentially great offroader 		The Bad:
– On the expensive side
– Some hard cabin plastics
– Looks as soft as a softroader

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So we got a 2017 Land Rover Discovery

So we got a 2017 Land Rover Discovery

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. June 29, 2017.

The new Land Rover Discovery is not a good-looking vehicle. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, remember that the current Toyota Land Cruiser, Nissan Patrol and even Range Rover were received with equal hate from the general public, only for them to become “dream” cars for those same people in less than a year, and they both currently dominate the sales charts. In all likelihood, the Discovery will pull off the same feat, once everyone gets used to it. We were just about starting to warm up to it when we had one for a few days.

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2017 Honda CR-V

2017 Honda CR-V

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. June 25, 2017.

The Good:
– Decent looks
– Cabin space and practicality
– Ride and handling		 The Bad:
– No low-range gearing
– Slightly pricier than rivals
– Some hard cabin plastics

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So we bought a 2015 Chrysler 300 SRT

So we bought a 2015 Chrysler 300 SRT

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. June 21, 2017.

Yep, we’ve bought yet another car, adding to our ever-expanding self-owned long-term fleet. We hyped it long enough on our Facebook page where we asked our fans to guess the car, and it was great fun watching the comments pour in. This here is a 2015 Chrysler 300 SRT in a rare red colour, and in full-option trim — so fully-optioned, that you won’t find this specification at all dealers as it was originally custom-ordered.

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So we got a 2017 Honda CR-V

So we got a 2017 Honda CR-V

by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. June 20, 2017.

We drove this new Honda CR-V just before heading out to Japan to drive, among other things, a Civic Type-R. While the two cars are miles apart, it is easy to forget that Honda has always been a clever engineering company, given that we don’t see the company’s most popular creations at showrooms here. However, the new CR-V actually has a lot of engineering poured into it, for the benefit of regular folks rather than just enthusiasts.

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