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Nürburgring 24 Hours
The Nürburgring Nordschleife is a lot of different things. To Jackie Stewart it was the “Green Hell”, to his long lost German cousin it is the Grüne Hölle, to the Gran Turismo generation it is Mecca, a place they tilt their Xbox to in appreciation, and to manufacturers it is used as an industry benchmark. ...
Driven: Honda Civic Type-R Mugen
As a youngster, did you ever have one of those remote-controlled cars that only travelled in two directions: either forwards or left-and-reverse together? Annoying wasn’t it? For those that didn’t, this meant that every time you wanted to turn right to avoid the table/dog/supplementary-model-car-to-simulate-traffic, you had to do a series of back and forth shuffles ...
Ringdiculous
We’ve been getting a bit sick of being sent emails that have ‘Nürburgring’ and ‘record’ in the subject heading as they seem to enter our inbox daily. When we received a press release stating that Renault had broken the front-wheel drive Nürburgring lap record in the new Renault Megane 265 Trophy we nearly dismissed it. Then we looked again at ...
Petrolhead profile: James Glickenhaus
“Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she’ll be more desirable to her next boyfriend.” That is a quote from James ‘Jim’ Glickenhaus - a true petrolhead. Jim’s day job is to head the investment firm Glickenhaus & Co. This allows him to pursue a car lifestyle ...
Driven: BMW 1 Series M Coupé
Four hundred and fifty. That is precisely how many of these little 1 Series M cars BMW is planning to sell before each dealer has to borrow a Sold Out sign from the nearest bakery specialising in overly-warm cake products. To put that number in to perspective, it is roughly half the amount of Z3 M ...
The cars of Gumball 2011
Last night the 2011 Gumball 3000 came to a close. With a route that started out in London last Wednesday (26th May) the pack of over 100 cars made their way through Paris, Barcelona, Monte Carlo (attending the Monaco F1 race), Milan, Venice, Zagreb, Belgrade and Sofia before crossing the finish line in Istanbul. Along ...
Unboxing: Mercedes SLS Roadster
Say hello to the SLS AMG Roadster, the sexiest thing to ever have its wings clipped. For a convertible the SLS roadster has had fairly minor tweaks made to it since having its gull wings pinioned, mainly because a soft-top version of the SLS has always been in the pipeline. But this doesn’t mean that the SLS has ...
BMW 1 Series M Coupé update
We’ve just had a look through the archives and realised that here at Motormorph we have been banging on about an uber hot BMW 1 Series for over two and a half years. Since being teased with the 135i Tii Concept in 2008 we have always wanted a big power, low weight entry level M-car. After years ...
Second opinion: Michelin Pilot Super Sport
When it comes to the concept of learning, there is little more useful than a directly proportional relationship. Whether it is a pay as you go mobile phone or the principle of momentum, we are good at understanding when one factor directly increases or decreases another. As far as the four sections of rubber keeping ...
The most epic hypercar meet in the world
This is nothing more than pure hypercar porn, so we will keep it short. It is not very often that Gran Turismo gets out done by reality but they have managed it at a hypercar meet in Shanghai. Play a little game and see if you can name all the cars.
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