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The Greenwash Chronicles

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"Most of us realise that there is nothing remotely 'sustainable' or 'environmentally friendly' about the mass-market auto industry. Still, these global businesses are they're doing their utmost to convince consumers that they are doing there bit to save the planet. "

Formula For (Environmental) Disaster?

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"When it comes to environmental issues Formula 1 is not exactly ‘on message.’ A Grand Prix car is a high-revving, incredibly noisy projectile and its sole purpose is to go quickly. Not, as yet, to go quickly economically. It’s a "

Triumph TR7

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" Now, call us old fashioned, but could it be that the Triumph TR7 was the ugliest automotive creation of these islands? It's not a particularly rare point of view – legend has it that when the Harris Mann penned design was "

Ferrari 458 in Black

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"[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] These are the first pictures we've seen of Ferrari's new glamour-puss in stealth mode. The monochrome brings out the chiselled angles of the stunning Pininfarina design. From the rear the purposeful stance of the car "

Ferrari Fuel

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" Not sure why we haven't seen this before, but this is undoubtedly some of the nicest pieces of automotive action we've come across for a very long time. One possible reason for this exquisite (and doubtlessly extremely expensive)  commercial's lack "

Mutant Exige from Silverstone Via Texas

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" Historically the fastest and sexiest piece of Anglo-American vehicular collaboration may have been the Mustang P51 fighter-bomber. But now, there's a demonic transatlantic pretender to the P51's throne. Meet the Hennessey Venom GT. The engine's from the Lone Star "

Fuji Speedway Cine

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" This film, which we stumbled upon at oldschool.co.nz seems to be a bit of Mazda propaganda from the early seventies. Dig the kodachrome-style colour saturation of the film itself. Dig the wickedly spooky loungecore soundtrack. Dig the style "

McLaren 12C born (again)

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" As the wires are abuzz with the official launch paraphernalia of Maclaren Automotive, we had to make our perhaps predictable take on the new British supercar. Sure, if McLaren produce a production car it is going to be special. Of "

Of Time and the Porsche

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" When I was a kid, I had a big picture book of cars. I was a bit obsessed with it. Right in the centre spread of the book was a huge full bleed picture of a Porsche 911. Silver paintwork. Black "

Witness the Phatness

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" It occurred to us whilst discussing the finer points of car design recently that if you had do define one thing that appealed to you about a certain sort of car and had to ascribe an adjective to it, that "

Calder and the CSL

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" Now I know we might be accused of becoming a little obsessed with the rakish lines of the BMW CSL of late, and that we also bang on a little about the relationship between art and the car. But indulge "