Ford GT40: The Beauty

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"Words: Neil Siner I didn’t have the Scalextric Le Mans 24 hour set, but my mate did. It was on that plastic blacktop in the early 80s that I first fell in love with the Ford GT40. I guess it "

Ford GT40: The History

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"Words: Neil Siner Born of American rage and brought up with love in the South of England, the Ford GT40 was the beautiful child of a boardroom bust up between two motor manufacturing giants. When Enzo Ferrari did a last "

Ford GT40: The Tech

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"Words: Neil Siner When it hits the shelves next year the Haynes Ford GT40 Owner and User Manual will have taken fifty years to publish. For those of you who just can’t wait, here are some essentials on the "

Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed

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"The talismanic design of the Porsche has received, perhaps, more than its fair share of artistic accolades. Whether or not it's a case of stating the obvious, the legend is about to be furrowed deeper when the North Carolina Museum "

Mercedes 300 SL at the Bonneville Salt

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"Images & Video via El Solitario/Kristina Fender Artistic Abstraction and car culture don't usually go together. But when you think about it, there's nothing as abstract - as tangential and difficult to grasp - as sound. And the sound "

Holden Torana GTX Concept

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"The Holden Torana GTX shared its name with a pre-existing production plodder. But this striking concept is far from a plodder at every level imaginable. It was a two seater developed in the early seventies, fitted with the standard's Torana's 3.0"

Datsun Cherry Coupé

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"OK, so it's an unlikely sort of Car Crush. We were looking for a little runabout recently. You know, something that we could get four kids in on the school run, something we could whip around the lanes in and "

Influx Social

NSU TT: Hipster chic…

Cars

"The NSU TT is one of those cars whose destiny is to be somehow hip. We're not sure how it happens, but take a classic three box format - add a utilitarian stripped-down simplicity finish with an EVO version that "

Ferrari 550 Maranello

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" When the 550 Maranello was launched back in 1996: it would have cost you £160K. The 485 BHP V12 it came with meant it could pull away in less than 5 seconds and could make almost 200MPH in the top end. It was a "

Fiat Dino

Cars

"Sometimes a street spot deserves a little more airtime than others. This Fiat Dino is such a street spot. In the cold light of a Shoreditch afternoon the car looks shockingly other than this time and place. The car kind "

Ford Escort Mexico MK1

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"The other morning I was driving along the motorway with my son on the way to the beach. It was the first light of a Sunday morning and we were listening to tunes, the pair of us mesmerised by the "

The Ride: from Gestalten

Bikes

"Venerable German publishing house Gestalten released a few weeks ago their book on the rise and rise of the Custom Bike scene. There's a couple of nice films we thought we'd share that paint a vivid picture of the European "

BMW E28 M5

Cars

"For a long time, we held it to be a self-evident truth that the E39 BMW M5 was the greatest super saloon in the the genre's short but noble history. But lately, we have been a little bit obsessed with "

Citroën Cactus Concept

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"Citroën has a long and noble history of automotive innovation - but very often the company has failed to live up to what it has promised. French industrial practices and a kind of cultural lag within France itself has "