"My uncle used to own a Lancia Stratos. Except he didn’t. For years I bragged in countless schoolyard corners that my uncle owned what was at the time undoubtedly one of a handful of coolest cars in the world. "
Own it: Lancia Fulvia Coupé
"Affordable classic is a term of which we’ve always been a little skeptical. It’s a bit of a cliché. If a car is truly a classic, in the objective measure of the term, then surely it will command "
Lancia: The Death of a Marque?
"Car companies die. Like the great lost cities and civilizations of antiquity, what once seemed vast, vibrant and permanent can soon end up as ruins. While I don’t mean to compare Lancia to ancient Rome, I think they’re "
Gabriel Orozco
" On the day that the world finally gets to read journalists' first hand accounts of what the new British supercar is actually like to drive (see Influx writer Ben Oliver's splendid account of hanging with the MP4 12C and Jenson "
Radio Controlled Drifting
" We're not averse to the joys of drifting. We can dig the appeal. As the FIA outcast rebel motorsport, full of counterintuitive weighted rear ends, welded diffs and an aesthetic of smoke and sideways-ness that rubs the old guard fundamentally "
Onboard with Fangio!
" You wouldn't have thought that this sort of thing existed. The film has got to be at least fifty years old and yet the camera is spookily steady. The great Juan Miguel Fangio handles the beastly, thin-booted Maserati on the "
BMW: Joy ad campaign
" image via The Always Gentleman Car companies obviously spend a hell of a lot of money on ad campaigns. As close watchers of the various ways that car makers seek constantly to reinvent themselves we were of course excited about "
Blitz Motorcycles
" It's refreshing to know that the Eurotrash can get down with raw motorcycles every bit as much as our American cousins. Blitz Motorcycles are a bunch of Parisian hipster gearheads who know the meaning of road trips and cycling freedom. "
Influx Social
What is the Cool?
" This weekend, after a wet and windy saturday afternoon session in front of The Thomas Crown Affair (yes, a very blokey indulgence between rugby matches), we set to thinking that why, exactly, is Steve McQueen so 'cool' and what, exactly "
Linda Vaughn
" Regular readers will doubtlessly realise that we here at Influx Towers are fascinated by Show Girls. The fact that our own lovely Fluxbabes are at the pinnacle of the promotional profession has something to do with it. But, the axe "
Cars As Movie Stars
"[gallery link="file"] It's a bit of a cliché to say that cars are often the stars of many a movie. But sometimes its not the tyre smoking rubber-laying car-chase moments through cinematic streets that are the lasting impressions. There "
HD Classics from Japan
" image Nissan press If modern Japanese classics are your thing, you have to take a look at this very beautifully made HD video from the people at JDM classics. Sometimes, looking at flat pictures fails to capture the true essence "
Cockpit Porn
" Still reeling from the breathtaking beauty of the McLaren display at the recent Autosport Show, we couldn't help but share with you this delectable pic of the cockpit of McLaren's 1989 successor to the all-conquering MP4/4. We're not sure wether this "
BMW M3 GTS
" We're usually pretty skeptical about the merits of bonkers track day variants of existing cars. So, when the coming of BMW's no holds barred trackday monster was announced a while back, we didn't really take much notice. But having eyeballed "
Irving Penn’s Hell’s Angels
" Irving Penn is undoubtedly one of the true masters of the photographic portrait. When he photographed a bunch of Hells Angels for Look Magazine in 1968 all the classic Penn elements were there - there was the stark backdrop; the steely "
GT40 Love
" It was an obvious choice - the definitive fast ford, one that will always be remembered as the Ferrari and Porsche-slaying slab of automotive sinew and muscle that rode to glory. And we'll never get tired of posting onboard footage "
