" Having been born and raised lusting after turbo Saabs and digging the legendary Viggen fighter planes that featured often in their ads, it's amazing at how such a ridiculous bit of brand mismanagement can destroy a symbol of innovative Scandinavian "
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Green Machines For Xmas
" We know, that every boy from the age of six to 106 would dig this little Bentley Soapbox for Christmas: but you're not having it. Because the sexy little creation is Bentley's. And only Bentley's it was a result of 2008's "
The Beauty of Utility
" At the first hint of falling snow, thoughts turn to utility as the prime motivator of automotive choice. Of course the SUV genre has had some killer bad press over the last couple of years. They don't make sense for "
George Barris: Imagineer of America’s Future
"George Barris was one of the original individuals who created the Kustom car and hot rod revolution in postwar America. Born in Chicago in 1928, it was in California that the Barris flair for futuristic tweaks and the unbounded imagination that "
Ludicrously Freakin’ Awesome Lexus in Action
" Ok, so you've probably heard that the long awaited Lexus supercar has been badged with the silly pricetag of £350K and that it goes like stik and that anyone with a heart and two ears could not but love the "
Hail the Mazda RX-3
" There's a lot of people who can't get enough of this boxy Japanese saloon from the 1970s. We think it has something to do with the simplicity of the three box form, which perhaps found its purest expression in these "
Saab Sonett – Rare as Hen’s Teeth
" Of all the obscure cars from Scandinavia, the Saab Sonett is the most pretty and the most frustratingly elusive. As I remember there was a Sonnett 3 in a Top Trumps card game in the 1970s, but we at Influx towers "
Facel Vega – For the Few Who Own the Finest
" Unbelievably, it's over half a century since the regal Facel Vega first rolled out into the world. And though the high end sports car that graced the upper echelons of society is fifty years old, it might as well be "
How to Look Cool in a Car…
" It's hard to refute the assertion that Jean Paul Belmondo looked damn cool in Jean Luc Godard's 1965 road movie Pierrot Le Fou. The film is is one of those obscure but influential pieces of New Wave cinema that is scarcely "
Got Wood?
" Over the weekend we had the good fortune to stumble upon some amazing ancient footage from the earliest days of American motorsport, thanks to a very interesting blogsite the Jockey Journal. Imagine the noise and the reverberation of those incredible "
Amarok: VW’s sexy new pickup
" OK, 'Sexy' and 'pickup' might not be two words that you would naturally put together (unless you're a plaid-wearing good old boy from Oklahoma that is), but we are immediately impressed wit the first official images of the new veedub "
Porsche: Stuttgart vs Shepherds Bush
" There's something ridiculous about a scenario when journos gather round like piranhas waiting to strip the meat off a car that, for whatever reason, has been found to the distaste of the head Piranha of the pack (otherwise known as "
Toleman: F1’s Last Romantics
" Small, unfashionable, short of money – Toleman racing was the the last of its kind to become a force in Grand Prix racing. This was the team that took Ayrton Senna into Formula 1 for the first time and for whom he "