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A honeymooning couple from Hamburg, a 2007 Audi with 200,000 kilometers on it, and their friend at Audi who drives a BYD to work.
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About Bauer Drive
Some kids got bedtime stories. I got spy shots. My grandfather, Jim Dunne, more or less invented automotive spy photography. He spent decades hiding in the bushes outside proving grounds to catch cars no one was supposed to see yet. Cars and words are, apparently, the family business.
So here's my turn. Bauer Drive is where I write about cars the way I actually talk about them. No brochure-speak, no pretending a bad car is fine because someone might be reading.
JP
