" It's not often you meet a car that's a cross between a Mercedes Gullwing CW 311 and a batmobile. But that's what the ridiculously strange and exotic Isdera Commendatore is. With all the subtlety of a rally at Nuremberg and an "
Ducati Elite 200
" Sometimes, we just want to share some love. This is the case with these images of the beautiful single-cylindered Ducati from 1960 - the Elite 200cc. Though we wish we could relate what it's like to blast through the hills of "
Inside Out
" It might be that we're getting old, or spending too much time in inferior cabins of late: but car interiors really seem to matter to us of late. Of course, out favourite interiors are usually direct analogues of our favourite "
Ford Capri
"[gallery link="file"] Any reader of a certain vintage will hold numerous ideas about the Ford Capri in their minds. If you were of the age that they were marketed in their original guise, you will think of them as "
Ben Oliver’s Screen Burn
"The most famous movie car is James Bond’s Aston, but in Ian Fleming’s novels he drives three Bentleys, starting with a ’33 4.5-litre Blower and moving onto a MkIV and a MkII Continental. None features anything more impressive than "
Wheels on Reels
"Cars started rolling just about the same time that movie cameras did. More than a century on, the movies are still in love with smell of burnt rubber. Every bit as much as their human occupants, bikes and cars are "
Hail the Wild Angels
"'We want to be free. We want to be free to do what we want to do. We want to be free to ride. We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man. And "
James Bond’s Aston DB5
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Influx Social
Jean Luc Godard and the Auto-Dystopia
"Quintessential French filmmaker? Perhaps. Unbearably pretentious? Depends. Petrolhead? At times.The controversial French director Jean Luc Godard’s work is shot through with ambiguities. One of the most visible is the precarious relationship that exists in his films with cars "
Hayride
"Billed as the most unique hot rod event in Europe the 'Hot Rod Hayride ' has a lot to live up to. This made the Friday night dash up from Cornwall all the more anxious! Hosted by Jerry Chatabox & "
Paris, Texas
" With complete good fortune we at Influx towers recently found the DVD of the beautiful Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas, in the stack of discs at the back of the office. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard Paris, "
McLaren, Senna, Lewis, Jenson and Monaco
" If you're at all interested in cars and motor racing, you probably caught the best edition of TG ever a few weeks ago: the one where Lewis Hamilton finally got to drive his hero Ayrton Senna's Mclaren MP4/4. Well, check "
Is this the Ultimate in Phatness?
" We're not sure exactly what the racer in this picture is, but man alive, does it not want to make you go racing? There's something about the exposed mechanicity of the diff and the tubes and the pipes and the "
Triumph Italia
" Check out the pulchritudinous slice of Anglo Italian cooperation that is the Triumph Italia. As you will read via MR Wiki, this car was actually (sort of) the TR3. Only 329 of this piece of beautiful automotive sculpture were built before, "
The New Jaguar XJ
" In the year that Jaguar celebrates its 75th anniversary, we thought it would be fitting to spend some time with some of the new Jags that have been making such an impact. Designer Ian Callum certainly knows how to pen "
Vintage Joey Dunlop
" Stumbled across this lovely two-part 'tube of Joey Dunlop preparing for the 1977 Cookstown 200. Obviously, Yer Maun ragged it around public roads clobbered only in jeans and T-shirt to get the feel of the Ulster asphalt. You could do that in "
