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Triumph Spitfire re-imagined

Cars

" Sometimes it's good to have your preconceptions challenged. I was brought up and into car culture through the entertaining and sometimes scurrilous Custom Car magazine of the 1970s (below). Anyone that remembers that wickedly funny 'zine will remember that as "

Fast Five Director Speaks!

Cars Culture

" Recently having had the experience of sitting through the latest edition of the Fast & Furious franchise with a roomful of children between the ages of five and nine, I was intrigued as to why this high-revving explosion-fest appealed to "

The Joy of Graph #1

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] We're unashamed fetishists of automotive design and spend an unhealthy time online and at various car events sifting through the voluminous back catalogue of a century of car culture. Our mission, dear reader, is to dig out "

Le Mans 2011

Cars

" Click images and click top right to go huge! With the great weekend at la Circuit La Sarthe almost upon us there's little we'd love to do more than pull up the deep buttoned man- chair up close to the "

Japanese Phatness

Cars

" all images via JNC Mind driving may be the preserve of license-less 11 years old, but in the Influx household it remains firmly at the front of our adultescent imaginations. So we were excited this morning when news hot of the "

Dress up and Drag!

Bikes

" We approach the whole bike thing as a bit of a giggle. What's not to love - in a boyish, stupid sense of fun kind of way - about riding on a bike with an engine? Sometime there seems to "

Jaguar Design at Clerkenwell

Cars

" If you were lucky enough to find yourself at Clerkenwell Design Week recently, you would have been treated to a delicious display of the celebrated new design ethos of Jaguar. The centrepiece of the show was the one-off C-X75 concept "

Titillation in Tarmac

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] Without getting too Walt Whitman on you, around this time of year we get an uncontrollable urge to get out there and take to the road. The long days are perfect for dawn patrols on empty highways. "

Hot Wheels Goes Live!

Cars

" We're not sure if we're posting this because it is a spectacular act of sublime automotive madness, because it is a brilliant bit of viral marketing, or whether the coverage is so good. Either way, the Indy 500 weekend just past "

Go Little Honda

Bikes

" Of all the odes to bike culture that have ever emerged across the media platforms, the Beach Boy-penned sixties hit Little Honda by the Hondells is one of the least expected. You might normally associate west coast petroliste cool with "

Bertone Ramarro Corvette Concept

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] In a piece of quintessential 1980s expansionism, Bertone, kings of angular audacity, decided to hit up the American market with the Ramarro concept (that's 'Green Lizard' to you and I). The Ramarro was based on a bog-standard 83 "

Cars are the Stars #33

Cars

" If you're not particularly into down tempo pop music of an R&B pursuasion you might want to watch this video with the sound turned down. If like us however, you love the retro-futuristic cool of Honda's NSX and "

Godspeed Redux

Bikes

" Received a very welcome dispatch this morning from CICERO DEGUZMAN JR- bringing news of new collaborations, new books and a very nice new blog format for his very delectable series of pictures that document vintage choppers, their builders, workspaces and "