Today I almost spent £200 on an Xbox 360. For someone who has always been a lifelong PlayStation owner, this is very much “a big deal” for me. The reason for the sudden brand allegiance swap? Forza Motorsport 4. This game has been out for a couple of months now, and it caught my eye…
It might be a Bank Holiday, but ESM doesn’t sleep.
Well, unless you count the 12 hours of slumber last night/this morning/this afternoon. But that’s not important. What is important is moving this blog forward,and to do so I’m going to introduce the feature categories I intend to update on a regular basis. So without any further ado, here we go: CCIL – Which stands…
Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Engage Sport Mode. Granted it’s 16 hours or so late, but try spending NYE with no phone signal. And here’s a very important photo; the Panda’s Sport button
The 2011 awards edition
Like any good motoring related journal, Engage Sport Mode endeavours to have some end of year awards type ceremony. Due to its infancy, ESM doesn’t have a glitzy hotel ceremony with burlesque dancers and champagne. Instead, it’s the equivalent of some pork-scratchings and half a plastic cup of warm cava. And only two awards. And…
The first rule of Engage Sport Mode
1.Do not allow yourself to be overtaken by someone driving a Toyota Prius It doesn’t matter what you drive. If you allow yourself to be overtaken by a Prius, you’re not trying hard enough. Prius owners are smug enough already. Do not further their smugness by letting them believe they have beaten you.
Watch this space
I appreciate there is a lack of new content on this ‘ere blog. Blame work commitments, Christmas gift buying pressures, the weather or a certain puppy. I apologise, and will bring new content over the next week or so. In other news, I’ve heard this blog looks very impressive on an iPad. If anyone would…
Yes, it’s a Panda
Telling people you drive a Fiat Panda seems to produce a number of reactions depending on how much the individual knows about cars. Those whose automotive knowledge only comes from Top Gear, don’t really care. If Clarkson hasn’t set fire to it or raced it against a nuclear-powered submarine then it’s not important.
Only in France…
…would they eat snails. There’s probably actually other countries that hold escargot in such high regard, but for the purposes of this blog it’s all about the French. This week the back windscreen on my girlfriend’s Citroen C2 shattered for no apparent reason. Perhaps she slammed it too hard, perhaps the ice cracked it, perhaps…
A quick note on the name
Engage Sport Mode wasn’t intended to be the first choice for this blog. Anyway, I thought about other car type names (which weren’t already taken) and settled on EngageSportMode. This comes from the days of my very first car which had a massive 50bhp. Shouting “Engage sport mode” meant to close the windows, turn off the…
Welcome to EngageSportMode
Hello, hi, how are ya, bonjour, and so forth. This is my new toy; a blog designed to let me vent my feelings about all things automotive and related stuff. I don’t profess to be a professional car journalist, I am merely an opinionated amateur. There are hundreds if not thousands of similar blogs in…
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