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Mutant Exige from Silverstone Via Texas

Cars

" Historically the fastest and sexiest piece of Anglo-American vehicular collaboration may have been the Mustang P51 fighter-bomber. But now, there's a demonic transatlantic pretender to the P51's throne. Meet the Hennessey Venom GT. The engine's from the Lone Star "

‘Vehicles’ Exhibition

Culture

" Photographer Tim Smyth has launched a joint exhibition with artist Guy Gormley called 'Vehicles' at Son Gallery in London's less-than-fashionable peckham. The exhibition runs until April 11 and explores the relationship between humans and cars through documentary and abstract photography. The "

Evel Genius

Bikes

" My cousins were the cool kids. It was the seventies. They had skateboards and Raleigh Choppers. They had leather sofas and crazy paving and their dad drove a Jensen Interceptor. But it wasn't these totems of seventies aspiration that made "

Fuji Speedway Cine

Cars Culture

" This film, which we stumbled upon at oldschool.co.nz seems to be a bit of Mazda propaganda from the early seventies. Dig the kodachrome-style colour saturation of the film itself. Dig the wickedly spooky loungecore soundtrack. Dig the style "

McLaren 12C born (again)

Cars

" As the wires are abuzz with the official launch paraphernalia of Maclaren Automotive, we had to make our perhaps predictable take on the new British supercar. Sure, if McLaren produce a production car it is going to be special. Of "

Of Time and the Porsche

Cars

" When I was a kid, I had a big picture book of cars. I was a bit obsessed with it. Right in the centre spread of the book was a huge full bleed picture of a Porsche 911. Silver paintwork. Black "

Ming Thein’s Lego GTO

Culture

" While the Geneva Salon goes mental for a succession of hybrid concepts in supercar packages, we were delighting in the technical exactitide of this beautiful recreation of the Ferrari 250 GTO in Lego form. Malaysian theoretical physicist, photojournalist and Lego-kinky craftsman "

Witness the Phatness

Cars

" It occurred to us whilst discussing the finer points of car design recently that if you had do define one thing that appealed to you about a certain sort of car and had to ascribe an adjective to it, that "

Calder and the CSL

Cars

" Now I know we might be accused of becoming a little obsessed with the rakish lines of the BMW CSL of late, and that we also bang on a little about the relationship between art and the car. But indulge "

Our Favourite Lamborghinis

Cars

" Lamborghini have produced some of the most hardcore cars ever to grace the streets. The overt machismo of the designs aren't to everyone's taste. But you can't help but admire the definition of automotive exotic. Here are a few of "

Retro Karting in the Spotlight

Cars

" The Race Retro show has been getting better and better over the years, with everything the tweedy obsessive of all things automotive and old could wish for. This year as well as the usual gems from the history of British "

Mantaray by Dean Jeffries

Cars

" The holy grail of the hot rod generation was to be able to fabricate beautiful car bodies in steel and other materials. Many of the kids who became Hot Rod building legends had honed their fabrication skills in the hot "