BMW Design by Pietro Frua

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"No matter how many hours you spend obsessing about the strange, the rare and the beautiful, the automotive world always manages to shore up surprises. BMW's Pietro Frua designed coupés are a perfect example of a lovely rarity we "

The Race of Gentlemen

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"Images and video Via Scott Toepfer/The Selvedge Yard. Full of old-time authenticity and replete with a pier-to-pier thrash of around 1/8th of a mile, The Race of Gentlemen is held occasionally on the beaches of the Jersey Shore by "

#Vanlife: Kickstarter Project

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"Foster Huntington's A RESTLESS TRANSPLANT is one of the mack-daddies of the blogosphere. Drawing in beautiful imagery and a fundamentalist on-the-road aesthetic, it's one of the places we go when we're dreaming of taking to the highway. His #vanlife collection "

Nissan Zeod

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"Nissan is zoning in on launching onto the raceways of the world with its ZEOD RC (Zero Emission on Demand Racing Car) electric car. The futuristic e-racer had its first public run recently at Fuji. Nissan's aim is to be "

Thrive Motorcycles

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"images via Pipeburn The postcolonial custom scene isn't one that gets a lot of attention. But Thrive motorcycles is an example of how the custom bike scene is finding adherents in parts of the world you might not have expected. "

Alpina D3 BiTurbo

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"In case you missed it earlier this year, ALPINA announced at Goodwood the on-sale date of the fastest production diesel car ever. And like all Alpina Beemers it's got that something special that makes this an eminently desirable machine. But "

Honda S660 Concept

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"Images: Honda Honda have just announced the super cute mid-engined S660 Concept, which previews at the forthcoming Tokyo Motor Show. According to industry insiders it will go into production for the Japanese market in 2015 – though a more powerful version for "

Brand Royalty: Iso

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"Iso made its name in the pre-war years building refrigerators and other appliances - but phoenix like, after the great cataclysm, they were best known for producing the Isetta bubble car, which came with double-piston two-stroke engines of 236cc; it "

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Indian Wall of Death

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""Wall of Death?" I hear you say. "Meh!" But this is no health-and-safety logged, Ofsted-approved circus act. This is something really special. This is the Indian Wall of Death. And man alive, look at the way this video is put "

Mercedes 190 VS BMW M3

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"Classic this one. Sometimes the slickness of contemporary TV car shows forget the gonzo-like beauty of a good old fashioned burn up. And this is a classic old fashioned burn up. We're not sure where or when this was shot, "

Ford GT40: The Beauty

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"Words: Neil Siner I didn’t have the Scalextric Le Mans 24 hour set, but my mate did. It was on that plastic blacktop in the early 80s that I first fell in love with the Ford GT40. I guess it "

Ford GT40: The History

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"Words: Neil Siner Born of American rage and brought up with love in the South of England, the Ford GT40 was the beautiful child of a boardroom bust up between two motor manufacturing giants. When Enzo Ferrari did a last "

Ford GT40: The Tech

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"Words: Neil Siner When it hits the shelves next year the Haynes Ford GT40 Owner and User Manual will have taken fifty years to publish. For those of you who just can’t wait, here are some essentials on the "

Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed

Cars

"The talismanic design of the Porsche has received, perhaps, more than its fair share of artistic accolades. Whether or not it's a case of stating the obvious, the legend is about to be furrowed deeper when the North Carolina Museum "