"Launched in 1991, the Lotus Carlton caused something of a Tabloid Panic. It was a 'Killer Family Car' - so went the tale. Class prejudice was riven through the sentiment. Plenty of Porsche, Ferrari – even BMW M5s of the time "
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Audi Rally Cars: A History
"It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Audi completely revolutionised the way rally sport is played today. Prior to the 1980s, rally cars were either front or rear-wheel drives. But a rule change request from Audi asking if "
The Golf GTI’s secret Northern Irish ancestry
"The town of Ballymena sits more or less in the dead centre of Northern Ireland. Halfway between Belfast and Derry, it’s a typical country market town, built around an old town square that’s been modernised with a shopping "
Meet Stephen Davison the legendary Northern Ireland motorsport photographer
"The ragged swagger of Irish road racing has been defined through the lens of Stephen Davison. But the 59 year old Antrim-based photographer, who started shooting pictures in the 1980s, has documented more than the hedge cutting, kerb scraping action that "
Everyman Classics: She Drives a Classic!: treading lightly with everyman Brits from the mid century
"Is there anything more sustainable and planet saving than a car that is still being used half a century or more from the moment of its manufacture? We spent some time with classic driving YouTuber Steph Holloway - whose love "
My Cosworth story: ‘It’s not everyone’s idea of a supercar – but for me it’s a super car’
"Turbo lag. It’s not seen as something to aspire to. Look around you. McMindfulness meatheads smash their screens between Zoom calls and online pilates sessions. Anti-vax perps with cabin fever, who get their news from Call of Duty twitch "
Audi QUATTRO: REVOLUTION
"Take On Me. Ah Ha. I prod the Blaupunkt. The audio brand itself seems transposed from another dimension. Could it be that somewhere deep in the stereo’s analog wiring, lodged in some dusty circuitry - a mulletted Scandinavian male "
Audi Rally Sport: The People
"The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut in London in 1980. We caught up with former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world. Harald Demuth – Rally driver Two-time German Rally Champion Harald Demuth helped "
FOUR WHEELS GOOD
"Audi launched the first Quattro in 1980. The cars the brand produced defined the rallying dreams of that maligned decade. An entire industry was forced to wake up to the reality that permanent Four Wheel Drive was a part of the "
Off road riding: The freedom principle
"Do you remember the first thing that made you dream of motorbikes? For me it was the final sequence of Bruce Brown’s 1972 epic homage to American motorsport On Any Sunday. I can’t remember how I came across it "
Ferrari 212 ‘Inter’ Berlinetta
"A study of early Ferraris is more a study of individual cars than model types. In the first six years of Ferrari production there were about 200 cars built and almost every one of them was unique in some way. Cars "
The beautiful rare Murena GT
"Images via Cats Exotics We've been known to fetishise the odd shooting brake. And this Murena GT must be one of the most beautiful we've ever come across. According to the webs it was built in 1969 by Intermeccanica of Turin "
What Defines a ‘Biker’?
"I recently commented on a Tweet by a guy who rides a 125cc bike. He posted; ‘Why do people with big bikes hate us 125cc bike Riders? We aint different, we are normal Riders Just Like You, we do everything "