" After the unseasonly scorching temps of late I've been weighing up the pros and cons of investing something a little more global warming friendly. My motivations are not, you understand, simply because the emissions of my old beat up Beemer "
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The Ultimate Car Brochure?
"[gallery link="file"] Imagine the scenario. It's 1969. In an idle moment aboard your yacht in the marina in Monte Carlo, surrounded as you are by lascivious models, Cuban cigars and grand cru , you decide it's time to go into the "
Closer to the Edge
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4NdcMELso8&ab_channel=LiamCollister Whatever you think of the ethical whys and wherefores of the Isle of Man TT, hold tight until 22 April, when the the 3D documentary Closer to the Edge "
Rare as Hen’s Teeth #2
"[gallery link="file"] Emerging from the shoestring budgeted British club racing scene of the 1950s, Elva cars was the brainchild of Frank G Nicols - who successfully raced at Goodwood throughout that austere decade — and began marketing special road-going racers "
Ferrari Daytona Shooting Brake
"[gallery link="file"] It's either a crime of passion or a passionate work of automotive art — it depends of course on your perspective. But whichever way you look at it this re-imagining of a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona as a sleek "
Song of the Sausage Creature
" In a piece of inspired editorial finagling, American magazine Cycle World somehow managed to parley the godfather of gonzo with the Ducati press office back in the day, and got yer man hopped up and hopped on a 900 SP for "
Kurtis Kraft’s Coolest Car?
" Frank Kurtis and company are best known for producing madly successful midget racing cars. They produced hundreds of customer cars which were competed, and almost always won, at the Indianapolis all through the fifties and into the sixties. But they "
Enzo Prototipo M3
"[gallery link="file"] It's not very often that the opportunity becomes available to possess a genuine Ferrari one-off – a slice of Modena history that gave birth to a car that is near mythical in its importance. But in the shadows "
German Designer Luigi Colani …
" His is not one of the Italian names that dances trippingly off the tongue when speaking of innovation in car design. In fact, the prodigious moustache wearer and smoker of cigars isn't even Italian. But that doesn't mean he's not "
Yamaha XT500 Paris-Dakar
" Before the eighties had fully taken hold of the aesthetic; long before the availability of factory specced adventure tourers; before bloat-tanked Ténérés had littered the byways of Europe and beyond; before superbikes with full fairings and colourways "
Steve McQueen’s 911 Porsche
"[gallery link="file"] pics courtesy RM auctions Steve McQueen’s 1970 911S, the one featured in his 1971 film Le Mans, is set to be auctioned by RM at Pebble Beach this August. Apparently McQueen used the car as his personal vehicle "
VW’s SP Series
" There hasn't been much written or much interesting steel produced, it seems to us, about the Brazilian car industry. Apparently the Karmann Ghia was produced in significant numbers in Brazil - but apart from that a 1970s import ban simply "
Authenticity
" This morning we've been thinking about a phenomenon that's been trawling its way through every aspect of our culture of late. It's all about authenticity. In the boomtimes we're always simply worried about the new: the cutting edge, the innovative, "