" Funny how the shape of a car can cause a Proustian moment. Thing is with the Ford Cortina Lotus was that it chimed perfectly with a time when the A-Road riders sought desperately to differentiate themselves from the rest of "
Pegaso Z-102 Cabrio
"Sometimes we want to run pictures of a car just because we can. And here at the fag-end of February what better to lift your mood for the weekend of love than the Pegaso Cabrio? The design is a combo "
All New Ford Focus RS
"Ford has previewed an all new Focus RS - the 30th Ford car to bear the RS badge. And it looks perfect for carrying on the prestigious tradition of the 'Rallye Sport' tag. Ford Europe’s press office claims that "
A Double Edged Ford Product Placement
"This sequence still brings a tear to my eye. It’s never made fully explicit in the show but it seems pretty certain that the white 1976 Mark II Capri 2.0s is an offering by Daley to McCann to seal their "
Dan Gurney: The Boy in The Bubble.
"He was the first to win races in four classes- Sports Car, Formula One, NASCAR and Indy Car. And of course, the first to win Le Mans at the wheel of a Ford motor car, his head swathed in that "
A Trunk Road to the Land of Dreams
"In the 1970s there was no fast route north of Barking. No M11 to take you up to Cambridge for the day, no A406 cutting a swathe through Wanstead Flats. To the south there was only marshes and the river. "
Ford Focus RS500 Cosworth
"An electric blue badge burning with neon intensity against a dark background-matte black- like a stealth bomber. That’s what first hits me in the hard morning light at the Ford Heritage Centre whilst signing the release forms for the "
Return to Fordland
"Like the novelist once said: ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there” An overused line, perhaps, but it couldn’t be truer for the history of the corner of Essex that became Fordland. When Henry T. "
Influx Social
David Brown: A Very British Coachbuilder
"A quick survey of the Influx editorial archives will confirm our interest in, and coverage of, the great Continental European coachbuilders such as Pininfarina. And rightly so. It’s worth remembering though that Britain was once home to a good "
Jaguar E-Type Fixedhead Coupe
"This stunning example of a Jaguar E- type 3.8 Fixedhead Coupe goes under the hammer soon at the ‘Silverstone’ auctions. Its shiny-as-new look that belies its 52 years on the planet is partly due to the fact that it has spent the "
Santa Pod ’67
"We've always had a soft spot for Santa Pod Raceway. So when we stumbled across these shots on The Selvedge Yard recently, we had to give you the heads up. RAF Podington had been disused since the 1950s - but "
250 SWB Ferrari
"We think the 250 SWB Ferrari has by far the most appealing rear end in the panoply of car design. The SWB is a byword for the sort of purposeful attitude that epitomised the first two decades of the Maranello dream "
Ken Okuyama Kode 9
" Ken Kikoyuki Okuyama is a master of automotive penmanship. If you don't believe me - have a look at his most famous work. Yes - Okuyama-san is responsible, with employers Pininfarina, for the brutally outrageous pinnacle of Ferrari audacity - "
Audi A7 Driverless Car
"It’s 2015. So where can we get a Marty McFly style Hoverboard? According to the film they should be a part of everyday life by now. But, fake videos apart, they remain elusive. Yet when it comes to the driverless "
Lamborghini Miura Jota.
"images courtesy RM Auctions OK, so the Miura was badass. But it was no racing car. Enter the Jota. But even though it was designed explicitly as a street-going car, the Miura could still handedly keep up with many of "
Sideburn Art
"Our friends and colleagues over at Sideburn Magazine are going from strength to strength. As some of the leading purveyors of automotive culture in print - they are putting on sale some lovely hi quality prints from the production of "
