"When Alfa unveiled the 4C at the Geneva show early in 2011, there was a completely polarised reaction. Even the hardcore Alfisti weren’t unanimously supportive of the arrival of the little competitor to the Porsche Cayman. Their appetite for a "
Alfa’s New Giulietta
"hipstamatics by Paul O'Connor When the first Giulietta was launched to the public in 1954 it was the first truly mass-market Alfa Romeo. It was pretty but practical, stylish but reliable, functional yet passionately conceived. And it’s these core values, "
Underground Alfas
"Alfetta 158/159 These derivatives dominated the first two years of the F1 world championship, winning between 1947 and 1951, an incredible 47 of the 54 grand prix it entered. This car was thus quintessence of Enzo Ferrari’s dictum that the most beautiful car is "
Rolls Royce & Bentley, 1955…
" We stumbled across these very lovely images from the Rolls/Bentley brochure recently and were taken aback by the range of truly beautiful cars that were being produced in England at the time. These wonderful cars were of course heading "
Lexus LFA crowned King of the ‘Ring
" For any of you who didn't follow last Friday's tweet, we thought this footage is more than worthy of a daily post. Especially as the car is so brutally lovely. Lexus's LFA Nürburgring Edition has just run the 'ring "
Hot Rod focus – the Roach Coach
" This friday it's not so much that we're fetishising a particular brand of motor. We're just simply gobsmacked by the passion attention to imaginative detail that is demonstrated in these types of ground-up hot rod madness. When you consider how "
Yakima Ridge Runners
" We stumbled across this vintage footage recently (below) of a bunch of old school American outdoorsmen who called themselves The Yakima Ridge Runners off-road club. We're not sure but we reckon the footage is from the late forties or early "
Porsche Factory c1972
" It's no secret that we're ambivalent about the 911. Until we drove a couple, we were a little sneery ourselves. You just see so many of the things that contempt is bound to arise through so much familiarity. On the one "
Influx Social
World’s Fastest Sunbeam
" It's not often we find ourselves drawn to a WLSR vehicle. But when we saw the 'Slug', the 1926 1000HP Sunbeam 'Mystery' at Beaulieu over the summer, we were stopped in our tracks. It seems the renowned English carmaker, who we "
Defenders of the faith
" When the first real pics of Land Rover DC100 concept were released last week, there were instant catcalls of its betrayal of Land Rover's core beliefs. The truth is that sales of the most down-home Landy on the market and "
Triumph bike master – Baron’s Speed Shop
" Images Magneto Photography for Influx Dick Smith is widely known for his knowledge of all things Triumph. Having rebuilt his first engine at the tender age of eleven, he went on to work in the factories of BSA and Norton. "
SR 500: Poetry in motion
" More creative niceness from California here, namely Long Beach's Lossa Engineering. There's a real sense of drama to this short by Ricki Bedenbaugh. The beautiful noise of the big single and the orchestration of the soundtrack is cut together in "
McLaren: the power and the glory
" We make no secret of our passion for McLaren. Our love of the racing brand went to new heights when we got up close and personal with all the important cars in the company's entire history at the this year's "
Moon Shines
" In case you’ve been buried under a rock these past years, you can’t help have noticed that there’s a real Hot Rod revival going on, with vintage events cropping up all over the place. Core festivals like "
Hairy Biker of the Week #1
" In a regular new figure we're going to spotlight a member of the motorcycling community and ask our dear readers to identify the vehicle and the rider, if possible, thereof. We might even ask for a caption from you witty "
Hail the Prince
" Sometimes the way a car is presented graphically transcends the quality of the car itself. Depending on your perspective, this is either the human genius of marketing - or evidence of how stupid we are as a breed. Whichever your "
