The 910-Litre Boot That Borrowed Your Children’s Knees
A sliding rear bench is useful. Turning its least passenger-friendly position into the headline boot figure is something else.
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How DSG Broke the Automatic — and Sometimes Itself
Volkswagen’s dual-clutch gearbox made shifts disappear, reset the automatic and generated one of motoring’s fiercest reliability arguments.
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The Twelve-Door Supercar I Designed at Three
It had the nose of a supercar, the length of a limousine and enough doors for everybody.
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The Range Rover That Was €20,000 Too Cheap
The body was perfect. The price was not. Then the people selling it declined to explain who had paid for it.
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The Doctor from Benin Is Buying Your Mercedes
He had not seen the car, read the advert or visited Austria. He did have €60,000, a transporter and one small request for €1,850.
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The Medieval Cathedral Built Around a Diesel Engine
How soot, nitrogen oxides and regulation turned one engine into an entire chemical works.
The Headlight That Ate the Car
A perfectly sensible used car can carry a four-figure optical liability on each front corner.
Your Car Is a Witness
The final seconds before a crash can survive inside the car with less imagination than any eyewitness.
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The market, paperwork and local phrases between an interesting advert and a legally usable car.
Austria Has Quietly Trapped Its Used Premium Cars
A 48-month NoVA rule has made the same premium SUV worth one number at home and another at the border.
How to Read an Austrian Used-Car Ad
The phrases that sound reassuring, the ones that mean something and the omissions that matter most.
Buying a Used Car in Austria: The Complete 2026 Guide
Inspection, contract, payment, insurance and registration — in the order Austria actually requires.
The €90 Gap
How 0.71 seconds of empty motorway became a €90 contribution to Lower Austria.
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