"Every now and then a star becomes associated with a brand of car, usually by accident. Think the various incarnations of 007 and Aston Martin, of course, and perhaps Steve McQueen with the Ford Mustang. You could probably come up with "
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"words & pictures: Michael Fordham Back in the primordial soup of post war Japan – a nation demoralised and devastated by unimagined military defeat, there was a little seed of determination left in the Japanese people despite the suffering endured. The "
Rust is Lighter Than Carbon Fibre
" When we spotted this twisted beauty last week, we were instantly impressed by its ghetto fabulousness. A stipped down, rusted primer coated Mk1 with Tangoed alloys, a matt black hood with comp stripes and all sorts of add-ons, make it "
Interior Worlds
" Having spent the last week or so belting about in the rather sublime B road bad boy that is the Mitsubishi Evo X, which has a rather spartan, rather lacklustre interior, (stay tuned later this week for more on one "
We Heart Matte
" Having spent a good proportion of the last few years staring at and thinking about cars, I can finally come out. I have a fetish about matte paintwork. It might be that the world knows what I am on about, "
Utility Love
" all images © Jonathan Levitt We've been trying to define what we love about Jonathan Levitt's blog, Grass Doe. Grass Doe is a collection of the Maine photographer's images, updated regularly. There are beautiful images of snowbound wolves, bucolic riverine moments "
BMW M3 CRT – Carbon Race Technology
" This week's car crush is relatively attainable. Well, it might cost an arm and a leg, but at least the family driver could practically own one without causing too much jangling discord on the school run. BMW aspirational mainstay receives "
Koenigsegg Agera Breaks Records?
" But we stumbled recently across this morning this amazing footage of Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg's latest creation, the 5.0 liter twin-turbocharged V8 Agera, recently breaking the record for going from 0-300KM/h and then back to a stop. You can "
Influx Street Spots
" Images © Michael Fordham Time and time again we come across interesting cars and bikes and people on our travels of this and other lands. Now we thought it was about time that we share with you what we find. Go "
Tepui Tents
" We at influx towers have always aspired to do proper off road adventure one day. There's something about the untrammelled feeling of freedom that comes with busting free from the rules and regulations of the highway. It's a different, primal "
Cal-look. A Californian state of mind…
" David Hockney saw it. From the perspective of a grim English town in the fifties, the grey wash flattening and unifying everything you saw into dreary monochrome, California looked special. He may have been only looking at Black and White "
Porsche 356
" It was stumbling across this beautifully detailed cutaway this week (below) that inspired our current romance for Porsche's first born. Nay-sayers who claim that the original apple of Ferry's eye is a Beetle with delusions of grandeur may have a "
We love the English Pony…
"Sure, we can argue about it, but we’re probably going to end up agreeing that the Ford Capri was the definitive car of the 1970s, in the UK, at least. The dates match; first sold in ’69, the Capri’s "