Snow snow and snow

Winter testing is always full of surprises, especially regarding the weather. Some days are really wonderful with the sun shining and therefore excellent photo possibilities. But some days are like a harmagedon. Just look at this picture, can you see what car it is driving in front of us? At those days it’s almost impossible to take photos. At least photos where you are supposed to see what they show. Another problem with that massive amount of snow is when you are driving on the roads and a truck is coming towards you, after that you have no, and I really mean no, visibility for several seconds. And if driving at 100 km/h, you drive several 100 meters with no visibility at all. All you can do is to hope that there are no animals like moose or reindeers crossing the road right then, or that someone in a car behind the truck is losing control over their car because they don’t see anything as well.

Even if it’s mostly colder when it’s clear, I prefer that rather than snowing.

And yes, the car on the photo is a Porsche Panamera.

Dont try this at home......

Most car testers are ok, they don’t always like what we do but they can accept it. But not this guy !! While trying to overtake him, he tried to block us all the time to protect the prototype, a Citroen DS3. At one point we overtook him at a crossing, but we had to use all of the other side’s road AND a parking lot because he didn’t want us to pass him. But soon after that he made a kamikaze maneuver, and because I still like to have my car in one piece, I decided to brake hard, very hard or else he would have crashed into my car. Someone should learn this fuckhead that when they drive on public roads they have to follow the rules and accept if someone wants to take photos. Well, he blocked us all the time and the prototype got away. We chased after him to tell him one or the other rule here in Sweden, but he didn’t stop and went into their facility.

Two hours later we noticed this idiot again, same car but this time without the prototype. We went after him, to explain some stuff to him, but he took off as quick as he could, we where after him, and this time the gate to the facility was closed so he had to stop. I got out of my car to talk to him, and then this fuckhead gets out of his shitty car with an iron stick, screaming some French/English mixture that he will kill me if I come closer !!!! He noticed my partner’s camera and used his brain for the first time this day; he got back in his car and took off into the facility. I´ll decided that’s it and went to the police. We had proof of both the idiotic driving and him wanting to hit me with the iron stick, photos and video. But here the police are so scared to take action against car testers, so they listened to me, and to the boss of that driver and decided: Well, it’s good that you have talked now. That’s it !! There was also a guy called Åke there, he is like a janitor at the test facility but he likes to see himself as the Sheriff. He claimed that it’s because of us photographers that it’s less testing in Sweden this year. I wonder if he has heard about the economical crisis..hahahahaha. I guess, if you’re stupid, then you’re stupid. Well I have a lot of stories about this Åke guy, so I’m sure you will hear about him sooner or later.

Back to the Citroen prototype, yepp, we managed to get some photos of it before the chase, and the rest while they were driving on the test track on the ice ;-)

Welcome..............

Ok ok , i have been thinking about this blog for a long time now, but i guess its finally time now.

So, what will you read and find here then ? Well, i will try and give you all a view into my life as a carspy and hopefully be able to tell you some exciting stories, rumors and inside information. I guess there will be a lot of pix here as well, even if there will be no new spyshots, as they will go out to my customers in first place. Maybe i´ll tease you with some crops here ...hehehe.

I have been working as a carspy for so many years now, and a lot of funny, cool and exciting stuff has happend during this time. And i hope there will be alot of exciting years left with me in this business. Right now im in Northen Sweden where the winter testing is going on at full speed. Well, full speed is not really correct as the financial crisis has hit our business as well. I talked to a BMW testdriver last week (while he was filling up his 5 series prototype), and he told me that they are here with only half of the normal amount of testers and prototypes. Of course that is the same with other brands, but there still are prototypes around here. I guess they are just testing with less people and for a shorter time to save money. To bad that they are missing a really cold winter, ideal for testing.