250 LM Pininfarina Stradale Speciale

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] Last summer at the Silverstone Classic we were lucky enough to get up close and personal with a race prepped 250 LM. It was, predictably, an erotic experience we won't quickly forget. But when we stumbled across this "

Bizzarrini Manta

Cars

" We're suckers for defunct automotive brands. And one of the most spectacular and exotic of the passed car-makes of recent times is Bizzarrini. The company was Founded by Giotto Bizzarrini a former engineer for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Iso. Until "

Southsiders at Goodwood

Bikes

" images: Southsiders We might be a bit slow off the mark here, but this morning we stumbled across some of the nicest pictures we've ever seen coming from the Goodwood revival. The images come from those fine folks at Southsiders "

Opel GT/W ‘Geneve’ concept

Cars

" The original Opel GT was a quirky piece of design. When it was presented at the 1965 Frankfurt Motor Show it was the manifestation of a real tangent for a European company. There were low front-end with pop-up headlights, flared arches "

Wheels & Waves

Cars

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f78dYKDKR8U&ab_channel=CoventryTransportMuseum Two of our obsessions come together this week at Coventry's Transport Museum in the lovely looking exhibition Wheels & Waves. Bringing together surf and car culture in "

Modern Classic: The Golf GTi

Cars

"Images: VW_Press It is easy to forget just how this little car changed the car world. When it emerged most stuff was rear wheel drive and badly made with overhangs. I suppose the GTi really has significance for me "

Rollerburn 2011

Bikes

" image: Sideburn Our friends at Sideburn magazine, "the world’s most suave motorcycle magazine", is organising and promoting a one-off, cross-genre event that they reckon will to "go down in history". Hold on to your whiskers folks and prepare for "

Cadillac Voyage

Cars

" Concept cars have a way of summarising their eras perfectly. The 1988 Voyage concept from Cadillac was a veritable riot of technology, some of it digital - at a time when widespread consumer pixelage were just about visible on the horizon "

Influx Social

MACHINE

Culture

" It seems like the greasier portions of the blogosphere have caught onto this like a mullet to a hand-line over the last couple of days. But we want to share it because it is so lovely. Take a bunch of "

Historic Car Racing – Angouleme Onboard

Cars Culture

" full set of images from Ian Wilson here. Every September vintage and classic racers gather in the historic hillside town of Angouleme, which straddles the beautiful Charente River. At the hub of the town is an amazing 12th century cathedral, "

Moggy Love

Cars

" The Morris Minor holds a peculiar kind of affection in British hearts. There's something accessible, friendly and comforting about the design. As much as the Mini, the Minor is interwoven into British culture, welded to the image of ourselves like "

Mazda RX-500

Cars

" The Mazda RX500 was originally displayed at the Tokyo show in 1970. Styling wise it had shades of the Mercedes C-111 (the Wankel-engined freak from the same period), but also featured that back end bulbousness similar to the styling of the "

The Hunter

Cars Culture

" As you may have gathered we're McQueen geeks. We like to regularly share a dose of cultural artefacts that feature the great man - and by now we've worked lots of angles on the king of cool. But for some "

Friday Bike Crush # 4

Bikes

" Every now and then the distinguished folk at RM Auctions come up with a doozy we can't ignore. We spotted this 1953 Maserati bike in the auction list for their forthcoming London event (26th October) and we had to share. This "

Volkswagen W: Imagining the Future

Cars

"1XLR1 Squint a little bit and that front end looks like the Scirocco. But it's not. The apogee of VW's new generation of aspiration toward hyper-efficiency, the new Volkswagen XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle (SEV) was unveiled at the Qatar Motor "

The Contemporary Scirocco

Cars

"Hipstamatics by Paul O'Connor “Sick. It looks like a missile!” So emoted my youngest child when the Scirocco pulled up for the first time outside our house. I was, I admit, a little surprised. Because it seems to me that "