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National Lampoon’s Roadtrip

Cars Culture

" There's something about the great American road. It's always been an arena of mythic adventures, tortured mishaps and, if you're lucky, hilarious comedy. And the comedy doesn't get much more hilarious than that dreamt up by Chevy Chase. His National "

Karmann Cheetah by Italdesign

Cars

" images Italdesign German coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann is of course most widely known for having created the Karmann Ghia and various other cult classics for Volkswagen. One of his lesser known projects was the Cheetah - a small sports concept for "

Joey Dunlop, Isle of Man , 1983

People

" We're loving this onboard from Joey Dunlop around the Isle of Man in 1983. But as well as the always amazing images of Joey 'keeping it lit and between the hedges', here is the brilliantly cool, calm and understated Ulster tones "

Peugeot 205 GTi

Cars

" Now, we were just going to tweet this but after having looked at this clip a few times, we've decided it's worth at least a daily. In fact, we think we could devote an entire magazine the boldness and vision "

Durango 95… Proper Horrorshow

Cars Culture

"[gallery link="file"] There's a bit of an accidental filmic mini theme emerging this week. So for Friday's offering meet the The Probe, star of Stanley Kubrick's epoch making film "A Clockwork Orange" . This special low slung piece of period "

Drive: the movie

Culture

" This Friday Nicolas Winding Refn's new movie Drive is due for UK release. Refn won best director at this year's Cannes film festival for the slick existential thriller, which is a riff on Jean Pierre Melville's 1967 classic le Samourai- the "

Three Box Rocks

Cars

" Now, call us old fashioned, but we had never, ever lusted after a Lada. We like boxy everymen like the Fiat 131 and the Alfasud Giardinetta. There's something beautifully utilitarian about the classically workaday three box format that has all but "

Paul Newman – racing driver…

People

" There's been an acreage of McQueen love from these pages over the last couple of years. Of course, the king of cool was indeed the petrol headed totem of all Hollywood time. But the beautiful Paul Newman was, of course, "

Citroen DS Wagon

Cars

" There's a subtly and sophistication in the great, grand design of the DS that makes so many contemporary attempts at stylish automotive pennery look sophmoreish in the extreme. When thinking about the goddess, though, we can't help musing about what "

Honda Trail 90

Bikes

" Honda's gazillion-selling small bike the C90, loved by the families of Ho Chi Minh city as much as London cabbies 'doing the knowledge' is of course, one the most popular motorised vehicles ever marketed. We've got a soft spot for "

Rolls Royce & Bentley, 1955…

Cars

" We stumbled across these very lovely images from the Rolls/Bentley brochure recently and were taken aback by the range of truly beautiful cars that were being produced in England at the time. These wonderful cars were of course heading "

Lexus LFA crowned King of the ‘Ring

Cars

" For any of you who didn't follow last Friday's tweet, we thought this footage is more than worthy of a daily post. Especially as the car is so brutally lovely. Lexus's LFA Nürburgring Edition has just run the 'ring "

Yakima Ridge Runners

Cars

" We stumbled across this vintage footage recently (below) of a bunch of old school American outdoorsmen who called themselves The Yakima Ridge Runners off-road club. We're not sure but we reckon the footage is from the late forties or early "