This weekend in Helsinki, Finland there will be held a car show called Auto 2016. It won't showcase concepts that may or may not enter production in the year 2028 but instead new and relevant cars that already are or will enter the showrooms in the near future.
I predict the glamour and prestige of Paris or Tokyo motor show will be absent as well but this car show has a special niche that I have never come across. There will be over 100 cars that you will be able to test drive. You're not anymore restricted to just look and talk about the cars on display. Hurray!
Obviously the organisers of the event and importers of the cars cannot just give you the keys to any flagship model from their selection. This means most of the cars will represent what I call the buying with the brain sector. That mostly means small hatchbacks, economical SUVs and well, other boring every day greywackes.
But it's not all bad. Some test drive cars are fully loaded such as the latest Civic TypeR and VW Golf R variant. But certainly the highlight will be when I place my right foot on the throttle pedal of the Jaguar F-type R. Yes, indeed, any ham-fisted lead-footed lunatic with a driver's license can this weekend step out from the virtual world of Forza Horizon 3 and drive a 550 horsepower super cat in the real world. That's some serious trust the local Jaguar importers have on this nation which invented the Scandinavian flick.
Anyhow. This weekend will be filled a lot of driving in very different cars ranging from the Mazda 2 to Mercedes GLC. Probably all the test drives and opinions on cars that are only on the floor will end up on this blog. That's a lot of content.
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