Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Bonkers Bōsōzoku
Japanese car culture has always fascinated me. One thing that always caught my eye were these slammed, widened and colourful cars with exhausts that touched the sky. I now know that this is known as Bōsōzoku style. But Bōsōzoku is quite a hard style to define, as it is not really a style, it is ...
Goodwood Revival
It’s only 8.30am and I’ve already had a spiv try to sell me nylon stockings out of his coat pocket, been handed a ration book and accidentally bumped into Winston Churchill knocking his cigar straight out of his mouth. No, this isn’t a dream, it is just typical British eccentricity gone wonderfully mad at the Goodwood ...
Silverstone Classic
As pairings go, new and old is quite a common one. In creative industries such as photography, design and architecture, new and old are often put together to make something stand out. Having subjects which contrast the background often brings interesting results. So when I was invited to go to the brand new Silverstone circuit ...
Holiday Romance
British, summer, holiday: three words likely to bring a whole assortment of unique memories to different people. These days the perceived vision mostly involves sitting on a cold beach, sharing your sandwiches with crack-addicted seagulls, and watching some kids set fire to a pier. However, pre-Seventies and a long while before that bloke came along ...
Driven: Peugeot RCZ
We’ve tried something a bit different with this review. Instead of hiding away and tapping at a keyboard during the early hours of the morning (like I am doing now), we decided to crack out the cameras and see what all this video review malarkey was all about. It’s our first attempt but we would ...
Top 5 from Frankfurt
So this week the world of motoring travelled to Frankfurt to walk around a stuffy arena, get a foot full of blisters, see some covers get whipped off a selection of metal by a bunch of attractive women with a morose corporate smile and then peregrinate from one stand to another to the have the whole ...
British Rallycross
I covered Rallycross for the first time three months ago when I popped down to Lydden Hill for the FIA European Rallycross. It was franticly exciting and I enjoyed it so much that I decided to go back to small south east Kent track to inhale more dust and get even more stones fired at ...
Ode to salt
If you find yourself in Utah this week, I recommend getting on the I 80 and heading roughly 88 miles west of Salt Lake City. On your arrival you will be greated by a very special event - Bonneville Speed Week. Speed week is when an eclectic mix of hot rods, roadsters, belly tankers, lakesters, motorcycles, streamliners, ...
Incoming: Honda Civic
Honda have had a funny few years. After we got over the initial futurism of the last Civic we weren’t massively blown away. Then we were then told that the Type R was dead and were left wondering if Honda will ever produce a new car that lives up to their massive international following. Yes, ...
Top 10 cool car cutaways
The annoying thing about car bodies is that you can’t see what is underneath them. Luckily some people who are good with crayons have made these awesome cutaway pictures so we can really see what is going on under the skin. I have to be honest, I was a bit surprised that the Fiat Punto ...