"For us the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider is an example of the car as a work of artistic composition. Its beauty lies in its proportions, in the relationship between the scale of the wheels to the body, the front grill "
Seat Ibiza Cupster Concept
"It may make you feel old to learn that it's been 30 years since the Seat Ibiza came into being. If so this new concept, based on that favourite of the Seat fleet, should put a spring back in your beleaguered "
Citroen BX 4TC Group B
"It was Citroën's illegitimate, palsied baby, and the company disowned her. Shameful, right? The BX based 4TC didn't exactly light up the sky like a flame, its best result being a sixth place in the 1986 Swedish Rally - and "
Fiat-Siata Coupé
"This little beauty is typical of the bijou Fiats of the 1950s - cars that look more and more appealing as prices of the more glamorous marques outstrips all financial reality. Not that this 1952 Fiat- Siata 1500 Coupé special will go "
Barry Sheene Was My Hero
"For some reason, Barry Sheene's cheeky mug popped into my mind some time this morning. It may have been a Suzuki superbike passing that tweaked my unconscious - or something about the number seven that had the larrikin charm of "
TVR: The Return of The King
"It was created in 1947 by a bloke called Trevor off the back of a Blackpool pram company. In the 1990’s it became Britain’s biggest sports car manufacturer. It was shut down in 2006 by a Russian millionaire. But put away "
The Four TVR cars We Love
"They're weird. They're fast and they were riotously, fundamentally British. This much everyone knows about TVR cars. But here are four of the TVR branded motors that we love the best - a couple of which, you might not have "
An Interview with a Chimaera
"During TVR’s glory days in the 1990s the Chimaera was the British manufacturer’s most successful model. We caught up with a Chimaera recently at Silverstone and got the inside track straight from the mouth of the fire breathing "
Influx Social
Bentley T1 1968 Coupe Speciale
"There’s a Bentley T1 for sale this month at The Silverstone Auctions. This particular 1970 Saloon has some serious heritage, once owned by royalty it is now being sold by the man who wrote the classic bond theme, Goldfinger. But "
Volvo 480 Turbo Cabrio Concept
"Volvo's wedgy dutchman was never the glamour-puss of the brand's back catalogue. But this blown mutant, complete with X1/9-like black vinyl rollover bar - just might have taken the platform into realms of the desirable. Alas, safety concerns over "
Silverstone Classic Preview
"If you've never been to the Silverstone Classic and you like beautiful old racing cars, you are missing out horribly. Last week we were treated to an array of cars that had us aching for a time in motorsport we "
Fiat 130
"OK, so Tony Soprano drove a Cadillac Escalade But back in the old country the early bosses favoured the more understated luxury of the Fiat 130. This was a car well suited to dual aspect of the old school ‘Don’ himself, "
Ayrton Senna onboard and unseen photos
"It was 1994 when Ayrton Senna died. Anyone who cares even vaguely about motorsport will have a view of what this means, and what Senna himself meant in the history of racing. At the time he was front and centre of "
2014 Bike Shed Motorcycle Club: BSMC III
"We've documented the rise of the new wave of custom culture from the early days. And in the UK the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club is emerging at the creative centre of the community. According to the Bike Shed's founding collective "
Vector M12
"There is something vaguely obscene about the Vector M12. It was conceived in the late 1980s a time when women still wore shoulder pads and male execs sported stripy shirts, red braces and Disney tie-and-sock combos. In short – it was "
Von Dutch: Daddy of Custom Culture
" What is this thing called ‘Kustom Kulture’? Ask a hundred people the question – you’ll get a hundred different answers. Like other stock phrases used to describe complex phenomenon – from ‘Jazz’ to ‘Surfing’ and ‘Rock ‘n Roll’ – the term has "
