" OK, so the snow is causing chaos all over the nation and even the most curmudgeonly of time-and motion obsessed bosses has to concede it might be time to close up shop for a day of sledging and hot chocolate "
Van’s the Man
" The thing about vans, campers, crew-cabs – the whole diverse genre of trucks, motorhomes, splitties and microbuses – is that they are more than just things that get the driver from A to B. They encapsulate and infuse the personality of the "
God’s Speed: Bike Culture Documented
" Ok, you're back at work and the bread and butter realities of everyday life are emerging from the frost of a new year. What better way to escape the humdrum, then, than to treat yourself to a visual feast and "
Tubism: Global Car Culture through the Ads
" This is a killer eighties take on one of the last great Citroens from 1987. Grace rocks, especially as she bashed televisual cheesemonger Russell Harty around this period. This campaign on the other hand promotes mock heroic overtones on a decidedly "
2010 Dakar Rally (Displaced)
" The Christmas and New Year period means a lot of different things to many different people. But for a bunch of offroading lunatics in every automotive genre, it means a couple of weeks of hard toil, sickening adrenalin rushes and "
Audi A8: No Escape From the Grid
" Of the future is by definition uncertain, one thing that is going to happen in 2010 is that the all encompassing rach of the World Wide Web with slither its silicone fingers into your motor. And who else but Audi to "
Saab: Fighter Planes to Crash Landings
" Having been born and raised lusting after turbo Saabs and digging the legendary Viggen fighter planes that featured often in their ads, it's amazing at how such a ridiculous bit of brand mismanagement can destroy a symbol of innovative Scandinavian "
Green Machines For Xmas
" We know, that every boy from the age of six to 106 would dig this little Bentley Soapbox for Christmas: but you're not having it. Because the sexy little creation is Bentley's. And only Bentley's it was a result of 2008's "
Influx Social
McLaren F1
" Recently stumbled upon a picture that set my heart aflutter with boyish dreams of love, speed and conquest. Sometimes, it's good to share the pornography of automotive power without having to justify it. We doubt that the new Mclaren road "
One-Seven Seven Goes Ballistic
" Aston Martin’s One-77 supercar has moved closer to setting a new all-time record for the British marque in initial high speed testing. According the Aston Martin, the ridiculously pricey and carnally proportioned One-77 is currently undergoing development testing in "
The Beauty of Utility
" At the first hint of falling snow, thoughts turn to utility as the prime motivator of automotive choice. Of course the SUV genre has had some killer bad press over the last couple of years. They don't make sense for "
Future Shock?
"“I'd rather try crossing a river on a path of bobbing soap cakes than make predictions about the car of tomorrow. The footing would be far safer.” So said Harley Earl, head of General Motor’s famous ‘Art and Colour’ "
The Ten New Cars We’ll Lust After in 2010
"Stare into the crystal ball. The motoring industry tugs us in two directions. On the one hand it fuses the heights of driving passion, design discernment and technological exactitude to produce the most dizzying hypercars of which we could ever "
The Future: Formula 1
"There were seismic changes to Formula 1 in 2009. Bickering over the sport’s financial arrangements and governance led to FOTA (the Formula One Teams Association) announcing a breakaway championship at the British GP at Silverstone in June, then back-tracking once it "
The Electric TT: The Answer or a Chancer?
"The 2010 eGrandPrix race season has been announced. It will now culminate with a championship race organized by the European Motorcycle Union at Spain's Albacete circuit. The date has yet to be announced, but the addition of this championship gives the "
Future Classic: The Lotus Evora
"Consensus seems that the ride and the dynamics are perfect: but if anything the chassis could handle another hundred horses. There have been a few gripes about interior trim and ergonomics, but that doesn't alter the success of the design. "
