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De Tomaso: More than Latin-American Union

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" Latin Power crossed with American muscle. That's what De Tomaso, the brand that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is mostly known for. Mr Alejandro De Tomaso was aristocratic Argentinian through and through, Having moved to Modena from the "

Gonzo! Three tales from the road

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" BUILT FOR SPEED Breathless to Bogota in a battered old Dodge. I never realised what a nutter she was. Sure, before we went to Colombia, I should have taken the hint. There was the midnight madness of a cross-London spank "

The Canterbury Conversion

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" Mickey Gibbons has only lived with his1971 Ford Transit MK1 Canterbury Conversion for two years - but already its personality is burned into his hearts and minds. "Her name is Susan, Mickey tells me as we prepare to pull away "

Jaguar XKSS & Steve McQueen

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" Sometimes we just want to run a picture because it's so damn cool. It goes without saying that the Jaguar XKSS, one of only 18 stripped down, road going examples of Le Mans-dominating D-Type, is cool. And of course, McQueen is "

The Ferrari 458 Italia

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"When Ferrari make a press release announcing a new member of the family, the world listens. The gestation of a new Prancing Horse-badged car is riven with rumour and speculation. But there's one thing that always happens, no matter what "

IS-F Lexus for Humberside Police

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" Let's face it. Every one of the nation's finest joined the police force so he or she can speed along on the blue light, breaking as many laws as the neenarr will allow. Come on, you know it's true. But "

Alfa Romeo Navajo Concept by Bertone

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" Of all the futuristic concepts generated by the venerable carrozzeria of Bertone in the seventies, the Alfa Romeo Navajo is one of our favourites. The Navajo was ased on the mechanics of the venerable object of beauty that is the ,"

Steel Beauty

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" Now don't get me wrong. We love cars and girls. We don't think we're being particularly anachronistc or sexist to say that the offset of a beautiful woman with a beautiful piece of automotive design can lead to pleasing aesthetic "

5 English Revolutionaries

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" It occurred to us here at Influx towers that with the release of the new XJ imminent, that it is time to celebrate the passion for innovation and design in British cars. The XJ did after all, achieve its designation "

Bertone BAT – Alfa Romeo Concept Cars

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" At the beginning of the fifties, Alfa Romeo commissioned Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone to produce concept vehicles focussed on the effects of drag on a vehicle. It was eight years after the war, Italy was starting to reconstruct and it was "

The Eight Principles of the Classic

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"There's a lot of misunderstanding about the word 'classic'. And for such a controversial word, petrol heads and general lovers of cars and bikes use the word perhaps more than any other. In a noble attempt to clarify our terms "