http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Jon+Barlow Automotive Jon Barlow Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=353689&ca=Automotive Used Ford Focus EVERYBODY remembers their first car. The graduation from foot to four wheels affords adolescents the world over with an entirely new liberty, a freedom to roam wherever their whim or the road may take them. The day the keys to your first car are placed in your hand is one of the grea... Automotive Jon Barlow Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=353691&ca=Automotive Jeep Cherokee The English language is a terribly complex thing, an intricate system of symbols and signs and inferences and nuances. Peculiarity and irregularity are its only consistent features and it is fraught with pitfalls and traps that are all too easy to fall into; yet it is nevertheless gove... Automotive Jon Barlow Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=353708&ca=Automotive Chrysler Sebring Here in the UK, we’re fairly comfortable with the notion of importing our automobiles. We’re quite happy to drive German, Italian, Japanese, even Spanish cars (just so long as we don’t have to drive French ones...). This is partly because we’ve forgotten how to make a decent car dom... Automotive Jon Barlow Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=352611&ca=Automotive Volkswagen’s Polo. There’s something just that little bit special about it. Those clever men and women behind such iconic and era defining vehicles as the Beetle and the Golf GTi certainly have a knack for making compact cars. When the air-cooled engine of the beetle became superseded by more modern... Automotive Jon Barlow Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=341520&ca=Automotive Ford launched the Fiesta way back in 1976 to an expectant nation. Announcing it as “Ford’s New Baby” this was the year in which we were experiencing our driest summer on record and punk was sweeping the nation. Thirty-two years later an incredible 12 million Fiestas have been sold making them about... Automotive Jon Barlow Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=331524&ca=Automotive The cheeky little Suzuki Vitara was once very popular and especially appealed to younger drivers. I remember college kids who had a bit of money used to buy them and then “pimp” them up to the required standard which usually consisted of enormously oversized wheels and tyres accompanied by some kind... Automotive Jon Barlow Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=331051&ca=Automotive Isn’t it annoying if you have been waiting patiently at a bar for ages to be served and someone breezes in and gets served straight away. In most walks of life there is invariably some opportunist waiting around the corner to steal the limelight from the rest of us. With this thought in mind it seem... Automotive Jon Barlow Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=331060&ca=Automotive With the current high cost of fuel, the gloomy economic future not to mention the whole global warming thing a used 4x4 might not be uppermost on your mind right now. The good news however is if for whatever reason you were thinking of buying one there are some absolute bargains to be had out there... Automotive Jon Barlow Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=331068&ca=Automotive Of course the most obvious answer to this question is “because you’re not a car designer dummy”. Even if I was though I probably would have raised a cheer for the person who solved the age old automotive conundrum of how to transport a family and all their junk around in something smaller than a rem... Automotive Jon Barlow Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=326658&ca=Automotive Before I get all you amateur astronomers reaching for your telescopes and directing them towards the heavens I must point out that I’m not referring to the interstellar kind of Galaxy but the exciting new Ford Galaxy. I apologise for any confusion I may have caused but to me the discovery of a vehic...