" We stumbled across this vintage footage recently (below) of a bunch of old school American outdoorsmen who called themselves The Yakima Ridge Runners off-road club. We're not sure but we reckon the footage is from the late forties or early "
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Porsche Factory c1972
" It's no secret that we're ambivalent about the 911. Until we drove a couple, we were a little sneery ourselves. You just see so many of the things that contempt is bound to arise through so much familiarity. On the one "
World’s Fastest Sunbeam
" It's not often we find ourselves drawn to a WLSR vehicle. But when we saw the 'Slug', the 1926 1000HP Sunbeam 'Mystery' at Beaulieu over the summer, we were stopped in our tracks. It seems the renowned English carmaker, who we "
Defenders of the faith
" When the first real pics of Land Rover DC100 concept were released last week, there were instant catcalls of its betrayal of Land Rover's core beliefs. The truth is that sales of the most down-home Landy on the market and "
McLaren: the power and the glory
" We make no secret of our passion for McLaren. Our love of the racing brand went to new heights when we got up close and personal with all the important cars in the company's entire history at the this year's "
Hail the Prince
" Sometimes the way a car is presented graphically transcends the quality of the car itself. Depending on your perspective, this is either the human genius of marketing - or evidence of how stupid we are as a breed. Whichever your "
Porsche 911 Overhang Hangover
" When we saw the new 911 last week, we were immediately struck by the size of the overhang. We thought it made the car look ugly. It's predictable that when a new version of the totemic Porsche comes along, it puts "
Toyota Publica…
" This appealing little runabout from Toyota was the product of 'The National Car Concept' that was created in 1955 by the very powerful Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The idea was to nudge Japanese captains of industry into focussing "
Alpine 310 on GT5
" We've noted elsewhere how we missed out on the automotive opportunity of a lifetime when we neglected to purchase a neglected Alpine 310 from a local country lane. The burn of the memory of a missed opportunity is especially piquant when "
Reasons to Be Cheerful
" Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Wires have reported that the 2012 version of the top-of-the-range Jeep is set to feature a 6.4 litre Hemi V8, 500 HP and an eight-speed gearbox. The current version is amazingly refined for an American SUV - so "
Corvette Grand Sport Driven
"Pics Dom Romney/Influx //The Location// There’s a strange sort of irony in picking up the latest Corvette Grand Sport from the centre of the Industrial revolution’s Eden. Venerable dealer Bauer Millet – who specialise in all sorts of "
Fisker Karma
"The recession nearly killed the old Detroit, but it had been in decline for decades. Now a bunch of new Californian carmakers, technology companies and investors that think they can do things better: that they can build cars in America "
Homage to the Fiat X1/9
" The Fiat X1/9 was, like the Lancia Monte Carlo, one of those supremely aspirational mini supercars of the eighties that made anyone of a certain age believe they could achieve. The Bertone - penned two seater had the whiff of "