" 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 "
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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 "
Will Plug-in Hybrids Undermine the Grid?
" US wires are buzzing (no pun intended) with an improbable angst over whether or not the next generation of Plug-In hybrids will put disastrous strain on the already over-stretched US national grid. The 2010 Fisker Karma (pictured) and the 2011 Chevrolet Volt "
24 Hours of LeMons
" In the western states of America, with more space and cheaper fuel than the rest of us, a bunch of good old boys have been carrying on a nice little alternative endurance series that owes more to banger and stock "
Mechanicity: A German Romance
"Remember how the original Mercedes-Benz A-class famously fell over in the ‘elk test’? Or how all the original Audi TTs had to be dragged back to the factory in Ingolstadt to cure their high-speed handling ‘idiosyncrasies’? Or Daimler’s disastrous "
Influx Top Ten German Cars of All Time
"10 Ruf CTR Yellowbird Poster child for insane German tuning industry. Beat the Ferrari F40 to first production car with 200MPH top end. 'Nuff said. 9 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL 6.9 [caption id="attachment_8859" align="alignnone" width="1000"] The most outrageous S-class borrowed the 6.9-litre engine "
BMW: Brand Royalty
"Every car company reflects and is a product of the times in which it operates. BMW perhaps more than any on the planet, has evoked the changing fortunes of the nation that gave it birth. We selected some of our "
Evolution of a Classic: The Porsche 911
"1963 911 by Barbara Hulanicki When the 911 first appeared at the Frankfurt show in the autumn of 1963, it was slated as a simply a better-handling, sportier replacement of the 356. Little did anyone realise that the 911 would become a symbol of all the "
Homage to the Nordschleife
"As long as you've got wheels and a license, it's open to you. Yes, you. But careful. You still have to play by the rules. For me, the car park at the Nordschliefe is as mad as the track. All "
Audi Quattro: The Power of Four
"If someone hadn't invented Group B rally at the start of the eighties, the times would have defined the form and it would have happened anyway. All of a sudden, what had been a relatively worthy, moustached and tweeded form "
Japanese Car Culture & Saki!
" If you've never tried Kimi Kurasu Machi carrot shochu you haven't lived. Alcoholic carrot juice refreshes the parts that Bacardi Breezer can never reach. But more thsan that, the drink's packaging it combines three of our favourite things — that of "
The Return of Gordini
" Renault announced yesterday that their 'little blue bombshells' with two white stripes are coming back. The French blue, white stripes and front panel inset with four round headlights all contributed to a sporting identity that is an important part of "
Encounters with Swedish Amazons
" love this rendering of the humble, but subtly phat and menacing Volvo Amazon. Volvo must be one of the most misunderstood automotive brands ever created. Tarnished with decades of middle-of-the-road, family focussed earnestness, I've always thought there has been something "