" We've heard a lot about how the relatively humble 924/944 series were the cars that in the late seventies/early eighties saved Porsche from financial wrack and ruin. But for some reason we've never really understood their appeal. Until, that is, "
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Lancia ECV – Concept Car
" Lancia's ECV (Experimental Composite Vehicle) was a prototype Group S rally car that was supposed to replace the Lancia Delta S4 in WRC's 1988 season. Sadly, and as we often lament, Group B as well as Group S cars were banned "
The Importance of Being Lancia
"The truck driver glances at his greasy wing mirror and drifts into the outside lane of the autostrada, making ground on the dawdling transporter in front. Elephant racing – as it is known in here in Italy. A blue flash to "
Lancia’s Lucky Seven
"Lambda (1927) The Lambda was groundbreaking and radical. There was unitary construction when most other cars were ladder-framed with a coach-built body. It had independent front suspension and all-round brakes – as well as a highly sophisticated V4 engine. A milestone in "
Lancia Stratos: Elusive Passion – Concept Car
"My uncle used to own a Lancia Stratos. Except he didn’t. For years I bragged in countless schoolyard corners that my uncle owned what was at the time undoubtedly one of a handful of coolest cars in the world. "
Own it: Lancia Fulvia Coupé
"Affordable classic is a term of which we’ve always been a little skeptical. It’s a bit of a cliché. If a car is truly a classic, in the objective measure of the term, then surely it will command "
Lancia: The Death of a Marque?
"Car companies die. Like the great lost cities and civilizations of antiquity, what once seemed vast, vibrant and permanent can soon end up as ruins. While I don’t mean to compare Lancia to ancient Rome, I think they’re "
Gabriel Orozco
" On the day that the world finally gets to read journalists' first hand accounts of what the new British supercar is actually like to drive (see Influx writer Ben Oliver's splendid account of hanging with the MP4 12C and Jenson "
Radio Controlled Drifting
" We're not averse to the joys of drifting. We can dig the appeal. As the FIA outcast rebel motorsport, full of counterintuitive weighted rear ends, welded diffs and an aesthetic of smoke and sideways-ness that rubs the old guard fundamentally "
Onboard with Fangio!
" You wouldn't have thought that this sort of thing existed. The film has got to be at least fifty years old and yet the camera is spookily steady. The great Juan Miguel Fangio handles the beastly, thin-booted Maserati on the "
BMW: Joy ad campaign
" image via The Always Gentleman Car companies obviously spend a hell of a lot of money on ad campaigns. As close watchers of the various ways that car makers seek constantly to reinvent themselves we were of course excited about "
Cars As Movie Stars
"[gallery link="file"] It's a bit of a cliché to say that cars are often the stars of many a movie. But sometimes its not the tyre smoking rubber-laying car-chase moments through cinematic streets that are the lasting impressions. There "
HD Classics from Japan
" image Nissan press If modern Japanese classics are your thing, you have to take a look at this very beautifully made HD video from the people at JDM classics. Sometimes, looking at flat pictures fails to capture the true essence "