" 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 "
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Future Shock?
"“I'd rather try crossing a river on a path of bobbing soap cakes than make predictions about the car of tomorrow. The footing would be far safer.” So said Harley Earl, head of General Motor’s famous ‘Art and Colour’ "
The Ten New Cars We’ll Lust After in 2010
"Stare into the crystal ball. The motoring industry tugs us in two directions. On the one hand it fuses the heights of driving passion, design discernment and technological exactitude to produce the most dizzying hypercars of which we could ever "
The Future: Formula 1
"There were seismic changes to Formula 1 in 2009. Bickering over the sport’s financial arrangements and governance led to FOTA (the Formula One Teams Association) announcing a breakaway championship at the British GP at Silverstone in June, then back-tracking once it "
Future Classic: The Lotus Evora
"Consensus seems that the ride and the dynamics are perfect: but if anything the chassis could handle another hundred horses. There have been a few gripes about interior trim and ergonomics, but that doesn't alter the success of the design. "
Futurama!
"The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair – which took place of course just as the world teetered on the brink of apocalypse – made the expansive promise to show visitors 'the world of tomorrow.' At the fair's heart was the General "
Affordable Electric Cars?
"Car manufacturers the world over are finally waking up to the almost indisputable fact that to make their business futures sustainable, they will be forced to explore not only hybrid technology, but also full plug-in electric solutions. It has been "
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 "