"1988, and the market for hot hatches is at its peak. Hundreds of young, up-and-coming types are walking into dealerships flush with cash and ready to drop it all on something fast enough to thrill, but practical enough to carry all "
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Ferrari 550 Breadvan
"In 1962 a very swift breadvan competed at Le Mans. It was unofficial in many ways. It wasn't raced by Ferrari, the company which built the 250 GT on which it was based, and it wasn't actually called a breadvan by the "
Homologation Specials
"When standard ‘road-going’ spec isn’t enough… The act of homologating a car is a scarce thing in modern racing. Back in the day though, it was a carmakers way of entering a motorsports series while giving designers and engineers "
Doggy Driving
"It sounds like a very tall order, fitting a Bentley into a SsangYong. We managed it though, and with room to spare. How? This lofty SsangYong is one of the Korean car maker's largest models, the Tivoli XLV, a stretched "
Cars. Bikes. People. Culture. This was Influx 2018.
"In 2018 Influx brought you more cars, bikes, people and culture than ever before. What was your highlight? We featured everything from home-built bikes in our VC London film, and completely bespoke cars like Charles dos Santos' V8-powered Nissan drift "
#Influx2019
"Visitors to the recent Influx event in Shoreditch received more than just a great night of cars, bikes, people and culture, they were also the lucky recipients of a goody bag - part of which was the inaugural Influx calendar "
Driving the last JDM hero: the original Honda NSX
"In the mid-noughties, the JDM hero car was pretty much dead. The Toyota Supra was long-gone, and bullet-fast acronyms such as GT-R and LFA had yet to emerge from Nissan and Lexus, leaving buyers with a single choice – the original "
Create your Influx video
"In 2019 we're going to be showing more videos than ever before - and this time our social media followers get to choose what happens! We're offering you the chance to help decide what a video will be about, and how "
Abarth 695 Biposto: the world’s smallest supercar
"Abarth described the 695 Biposto as the world’s smallest supercar. In truth, it’s closer to a road-legal race car. Either way, this fastest and feistiest of Fiat 500s came with a price tag to match. When launched in 2014, it "
Josse Indigo 3000
"To run the risk of sounding a little bit like Prof. Brian Cox here, Josse was the briefest of flashes in our galaxy of motoring. Unless you happened to be looking in the right place at the right time, you "
Integra Type R – Japan’s GT3
"The Honda Integra Type R is a car shrouded in automotive folklore. From starring roles in The Fast and The Furious and the Gran Turismo franchise through to the almost-mythical status of its high-revving VTEC heart, this little Honda has "
Skoda Estelle
"My girlfriend said that she’d leave me if I bought a Skoda Estelle. This was in the mid 1990s, when Britain’s roads were littered with old gents in hats pottering about in rear engined Skodas, less-than-alternative comedian Jasper "
Alpine A110 review: meeting the hype beast
"You’ve met the Alpine A110 before. You will have done somewhere, whether it’s on telly or in a magazine, or perhaps even in the flesh, when one of the few lucky owners that have taken delivery flashes past "