"No other vehicle has mobilised a youth culture like the humble motor scooter. And this little machine didn't just do it the once. It did it three times. Go on, think about it… Yeah ok, so there were young rockers, "
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Robert Llewellyn: Guest blogger
"There are occasions when sitting in my Tesla Model S that I recall the Talking Heads song, Once in a Lifetime. “And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, And you may ask yourself, well...how "
Ludicrous: Tesla Model S P90D L
"In case you were wondering. We don't know what the ‘S’ stands for. The ‘P’, however, definitely stands for 'performance'. The '90' refers to the kilowatts put out by the electric motors. The ‘D’ denotes 'dual motor' (there's an "
Elon Musk and Tesla: changing perceptions and realities
"Should Elon Musk really be compared to the likes of Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes and Henry Ford? Like Jobs he makes innovative physical things that challenge and disrupt established markets. Like Hughes he’s a mega rich industrialist and aviator "
TESLA: The Past, The Present, The Future
"The Tesla P90DL has rewritten the rulebook. Without an engine, without a fuel tank. Without noise, vibration or metal-on-metal resonance. Tesla has redefined for us what it means to drive. And we don’t only WANT one at a "
F1 team bosses race in Ford Escort Mexico Mk1s
"Is there anything cooler than an original Ford Escort Mexico? Yes, I’ll tell you what’s cooler than an original Ford Escort Mexico. A couple of fistfuls of original Ford Escort Mexicos, with Formula One bosses at the helm; "
GTO: John DeLorean
"‘John Zachary DeLorean, engineer, car maker and conman, born January 6 1925; died March 19 2005’ So read the Guardian obituary of that day. In Britain we remember him as the maker of the DeLorean - his eponymous, stainless steel, Belfast-born beast that tucked "
1965 Pontiac GTO
"A very good friend of mine got turned on to the idea of an early muscle car and I helped him to find this one after quite a search. That was 2006 and when we drove it home I told him "
GTO: Gran Turismo Omologato
"Gran Turismo Omologato. There's something in the vowel-heavy phrase that gets the juices going. Something in the way it rolls around your mouth. Only Enzo Ferrari could have coined such a phrase, when you think about it. 3 words. Nine syllables. "
Lancia Delta S4 Stradale
"If you liked your Cavali distinctly Latin in temperament, then the Lancia Delta S4 Stradale was the ultimate in musky Italian testosterone. Lancia built the obligatory 200 road-going versions of the S4 Group B monster, and we reckon that, of ALL "
The Max Power Generation or…Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads?
"To those not embedded within the Max Power culture, its passing would hardly raise a ‘meh’, but this was a multi-million pound business with a dozen or more magazines feeding it, the largest of which was selling a quarter of "
Renault 5 Turbo
"It might not be the first motor you think of when you think of the mentalist modding culture of the mid-late nineties. But I owned a Renault 5 Turbo in the height on the madness. And know this: this car typified "
Top Five: Mod Heroes. Everyman tweakers of the late 20th Century
"During the mid-late nineties and into the new millennium - the Max Power generation was the most visible UK car cult out there. This was before car finance and insurance and a general political correctness took hold. We might all "