" We came across Crowe Customs delightful documentation of all things lathe-ish and metalspun while admiring Benji Wagner's rather nice photoblog. Benji is a west coast photographer and purveyor of fine outdoorsy type gear in the shape of the Poler brand, "
" Now, there’s something decidedly unglamourous about it, but we have developed a little bit of love for the North American derivative of the Corolla, especially the 4WD wagon version of it. In fact, we doubt we have or will "
" We were thinking recently how pathetically wimpish current oil ads have to be. Gone are the days when you could sell lubricant with hot cars and hot babes. Post BP oil slick,and taking environmental realities into consideration, it's not "
" This slippery love toy of an automobile, which represents the pinnacle of German experiments in aero, was designed in around 1936. Its designers, working out of the Northern German town of Gottingen were Karl Schlör and engineer Krauss Maffei. The "
" The Dauphine was of course one of the pioneering small, economic continental cars that steered the world away from two ton gas guzzlers at the end of the fifties. It was a cute, compact issue designed inhouse by Renault with "
" Shout out to the guys over at Bike Exif for these brilliant renders from Russian designer Mikhail Smolyanov. Ranging from Phillip K Dick stype futurism to the Neo-Retro aviation-automotive crossover, there's something characteristically Russian about the designs. We reckon Smolyanov "
" There's something about Pepsi Transit vans that reminds me of Christmas. An uncle of mine, deceased these last fifteen years, used to drive a Pepsi van back in the seventies. One Christmas, for some promotional reason or another, he got "
" We were amazed this morning when we stumbled across this amazingly well conceived little piece of kit on the Aether blog. We had never heard of a collapsible motorbike that could be dropped into action behind enemy lines before. The "
" We're always interested here in the definitive elements of what makes a car cool. Sometimes it's that elusive little something - the angle of a raked pillar, the hunkered down detail of a rear end; the air of gracefl poinse "
" When we spotted this twisted beauty last week, we were instantly impressed by its ghetto fabulousness. A stipped down, rusted primer coated Mk1 with Tangoed alloys, a matt black hood with comp stripes and all sorts of add-ons, make it "
" Having spent the last week or so belting about in the rather sublime B road bad boy that is the Mitsubishi Evo X, which has a rather spartan, rather lacklustre interior, (stay tuned later this week for more on one "
" pics: Church of Choppers Our daily mine of the webs shored up some interesting pics this morning from US based hog hounds Church of Choppers. This crew seem to gather together a really appealing rattle bag of bike culture - "
" Having spent a good proportion of the last few years staring at and thinking about cars, I can finally come out. I have a fetish about matte paintwork. It might be that the world knows what I am on about, "