No Flat Tyres (Didn't we already do that)

I recently got sent an interesting piece about some 'new' tyres Michelin have produced - they call it a Tweel.



The blurb is reproduced below, but the interesting thing is that these tyres have already been covered in our Influx car magazine and on this blog - over two years ago!

"These tires are airless and are scheduled to be out on the market very soon.The bad news for law enforcement is that spike strips (aka stingers) will not work on these tires.
This is what great R&D will do, and just think of the impact on existing technology:
A. no more air v r compressors at gas stations...
C. no more repair kits...
D. no more flats..."

OK, what happened to B???

Of course, any adrianflux customers who read our original piece on the Tweel in issue 1 of influx, may already know that the big problem is excessive road noise over 50 mph and the wheel is not expected to be in production until at least 2015.

But how did we know? Well, some of the Flux Babes have a very close relationship with the Michelin man:

Influx Relaunched!

Earlier this week we relaunched Influx.co.uk - the online, more for your eyes, digital version of our twice-yearly magazine publication. Both myself and David exulted a considerable amount of effort into the new-look, feature-packed website to compliment Issue 5, which was sent out to our readers last week.

The website's bursting with plenty of pictures, videos and extended articles that we simply couldn't fit in the magazine! Like this one - a homemade supercar in the making! Why not read the article about the Farbio GTS?


And what's more, if you've just joined us or missed the first few issues, you can catch up online by reading our digital editions!

Influx and Ferrari

Everyone with an insurance policy with Adrian Flux should by now have received their copy of influx, the Adrian Flux magazine. As we've mentioned before, we didn't want to just produce an ordinary, boring, corporate magazine that was full of puff pieces about us.

So instead we packed it full with really awesome pictures of some of our favourite cars and bikes, professionally produced articles that any enthusiast would like to read, as well as some of our customer's own cars with a story to tell.

The end result is, in our opinion, the best car magazine in the UK.

The latest issue is crammed with features on Surfers and their Surf Wagons, Drifting, Group B Rally cars and the Buell Lightning Super TT, amongst 64 pages of unadulterated motoring eye candy.

But the cover story is our test drive of the new Ferrari F430 F1 Spider.

We initially asked Ferrari if we could take a photo of their new beast of a cabrio. But when we rang them, they asked if we wouldn't prefer to take it for a test drive. So that's what happened.

Some lucky so and so (not me, sadly) got to take it this awe inspiring machine on a four day tour of some of the historic racing circuits of Europe - Reims, Le Mans, Spa - and a single page photo turned into a 6 page feature article and wraparound cover.

Ferrari obviously like it, anyway. We hope you do too.