"We think we've found our favourite Ferrari 250. It's called the 'interim', because just seven of these cars were produced in the spring and summer of 1959 - between the cease of production in the LWB Berlinetta 250 and the talismanic SWB racing "
Blue Collar – Filmed in Detroit
"For our money Blue Collar is one of the greatest films about the realities of the car manufacturing industry The gritty 1978 movie, starring a straight-talking Richard Pryor and a brawny Harvey Keitel, was shot in the Ford River Rouge works "
Lotus Elan S4
"We love this version of Lotus's pop-eyed sportster. Introduced at the end of the sixties - it typified the little English sports car of the time – though those popups were sneered at by the flat cappers in their MGs. But "
Neil Young: Man and Motors
"Anyone that read Neil Young’s much lauded first memoir Waging Heavy Peace will know that he is a serious petrolhead. While Heavy Peace has much to say about the many and various motors that Young has owned and run "
Van Crush: DKW 3/6 Retro Van
"OK: forget your T1 Split screen Microbus. We've found a better retro van. And it's called the DKW 3/6. Before WW2 DKW was a two-stroke specialist manufacturer of motorbikes - and this 1960 wagon came with a torquey two-stroke 3 cylinder which was "
Lewis Hamilton’s Automotive Bling
"It's no secret that here at Influx towers we're Lewis Hamilton fans. In a strange, fascinating season in the ever-evolving oligarch's carnival that is F1. And as we said when he started the process with McLaren - lewis is letting "
Ronin 47 – über custom
"Custom culture has gone through the stratosphere. It's not even funny any more. Colorado based manufacturers Ronin have gone and started a 47-run line of Buell customs - inspired by the legendary Japanese warriors of lore. Each one will be "
Car Loathe: Scion ‘Skate Tourer’
"In an unholy alliance of the worlds of skateboarding, heavy rock and the motoring industry, generation Y exploiting Toyota US-focussed sub brand Scion has produced a one of special of this...thing. It's built for Riley Hawk - son of "
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Talbot Lotus sunbeam Time Warp
"It sounds like a piece of Hawking-like speculative theorising. When can it be possible to drive a brand new car that is actually over 30 years old? Well now actually Steve, and it's got nothing to do with string theory or "
VW Beetle: German High Culture?
"It's nice to see a great British institution giving a great German institution the credit it deserves. It may not be the most spectacular, efficient, cool, sexy or beautiful car that German industry has produced – but it's certainly the most "
Nitro Nights
"Out over here next year this hardback promises to be a visual feast for all Nitro Heads. It is a collection of photography that documents the famous March meet at the Famoso drag strip in Bakersfield, California, one of the "
A Prayer for Saint Volvo
"If you’re free on November 15th and have some cash in your wallet then get your hair coiffured, stick on a smart suit, head down to Silverstone Auctions and get bidding on this 1966 Volvo P1800S. You could drive "
Lancia ECV
"The Lancia ECV was probably the most extreme expression of the Group B Ethos. 600 HP. Carbon-Fibre and Kevlar bodied. Completely uncompromised. Deadly. But just look at it. When a little kid dreams of a rally car, this is the image "
Triumph TR7
" At the time I couldn’t stand the Triumph TR7. It was an abomination. Ugly. And many of the world’s motoring press said so, too. It just didn’t make sense, that cheese-wedge shape, that inconsequentially pert rear three "
The Return of The Flying Finn
"It’s exactly 30 years since Ari Vatanen won the UK stage of the World Rally Championship in the crazy days of Group B racing. This November Ari will be back in the UK for the Wales Rally GB (13th-16th "
Rover x BRM
"Gas Turbines — A much maligned power source. Sounding like the wheezings of a deadly dragon and producing freaky vehicles that used too much fuel – we are glad that some madcap engineers wanted to try them in racing cars. This snoop-nosed "
