Mutant VWs

Cars

" There are some things one should never do. This may be for aesthetic, moral, ethical, or safety reasons. In our opinion most of the above prevail in both these instances. And while the 360 spinnable caravan concept in the video below "

Citroen Mehari

Cars

" Of all the vehicles particularly suited to summer, Citroen's corrugated beachside runabout the Mehari must be one of the most appropriate. Citroen built the car, between 1968 and 1988, on the chassis of the Diane, with the 600cc engine that went into "

BMW R25 Classic Motorcycle

Bikes

" When it comes to motorcycles rendered with classic craftsmanship, you don't get more classic or more craftsmanlike than BMW early fifties staple the R25. Looking at the simplicity of the thing leaves us little wonder that there's a backlash against "

Aston Martin, Phoenixes and Fires…

Cars

"Aston Martin and James Bond have more in common than a joint big-screen adventure every few years. Every Bond movie features a scene where James seems to be facing certain death, but pulls off a near-miraculous escape. Aston Martin has "

The New Vanquish

Cars

"It's bristling with Carbon fibre, sculpturally detailed, whiffs of the One 77 but retains the VH architecture. It is certainly the most dashing car made in these islands – Aston Martin's brand spanking new V12 superhero is coming. Launched this week after "

James Bond: Aston Martin DB5

Cars

"Images Courtesy RM Auctions It’s the most famous car in the world. Since the sixties, no small boy’s toybox has been complete without a fully-functioning die-cast model of this car; the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery "

Aston Martin Lagonda

Cars

"To be iconic is not always to be universally loved. Indeed, many icons, of the four-wheeled variety and otherwise, are divisive. The Aston Martin Lagonda firmly fits the bill. Reviled and admired in equal measure, the Lagonda attains its status "

Aston Martin x Zagato

Cars

"2012: V12 Zagato All Images Zagato The V12 Zagato is just the latest in a long line of collaborations between the house of Zagato and Aston Martin. The V12 is a snarlingly exotic but beautifully coherent design that perfectly blends the "

Influx Social

Ferrari 308 GTB

Cars

" pictures: influx/Michael Fordham In these days of brilliantly rendered, superbly realised Maranello supercars, it's somehow easy to forget that the prancing horse offered some beautiful, flawed classics before the Fiat corporation took full ownership of the brand of automotive "

Shelby/Scaglietti Corvette

Cars

" Carroll Shelby always aspired to cross the pulchritude of nimble, European sports cars with the straight line power and muscle of American hot rods. So, in 1959 Shelby bought three Corvettes from Chevrolet, shipped them to Italy where Senor Scaglietti clothed "

Man Up!

Cars

" It's been a while since we've shared some car marketing beastliness. Being aficionados of the excesses of the 1970s, we're used to seeing less than subtle brand messages emanating from the auto ad men. But this example has to take "

Moto Guzzi Otto Cilindri

Bikes

" Yep. Eight cylinders. 500 ccs. Eight carbs. 78 BHP. 148KG without the juice. This monster from the middle of the 1950s might look a cumbersome beast but there's something brutally beautiful about it, right? God knows how that fairing coped with sidewinds "

Sir Stirling Moss, 1959

People

" A couple of years ago we were lucky enough to spend a few hours in the company of Sir Sterling Moss. We had a great afternoon with the knight of the road in his sunny Mayfair mews house. You can "

The Art of Michelle Lopez

Cars People

" If like me, you like to make a fetish out of motors, then you might well dig this leather wrought art by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. Now, there's something tantalising about a car wrap: something about possibility and revelation; "

Is this the Ultimate Driving Music?

Culture

" It's an often debated subject, but we think we recently stumbled across what must be THE ultimate highway driving tune. Krautrock supergroup Can might not be everyone's cup of Java, but on a particularly wet, particularly clear night highway earlier "

Jaguar XJR-S

Cars

" OK, it was a lumbering brute, the XJS. Early editions were plagued by unreliability and rust - it was an honorouble conception but a badly executed late Leyland-Era attempt to bring the Jaguar label back into the arena of the "