" This gobsmacking beauty has been sitting around in our image files for months now. Every now and then we've been firing up the Adobe Suite and opening the hi-res files and simply wasting a few minutes of valuable time taking "
Lotus Esprit in Movement
" Stumbled across this very beautiful video below recently of the Lotus Esprit (first version). Made us reassess the beauty of the most extreme British- made Wedge ever designed. Made us think that it would be very, very pleasant to own "
Guy Martin Onboard
" image via TT3D Ok, so we know the TT was a couple of weeks back and that we all know, at least intellectually, how mad TT riders really have to be. But: we've never seen anything that etches out "
BMW art by Sandro Chia
"[gallery link="file"] We've blathered on at length here as to wether or not cars can ever be in and of themselves works of art - most people who care about cars - who are interested in them at any "
Triumph Spitfire re-imagined
" Sometimes it's good to have your preconceptions challenged. I was brought up and into car culture through the entertaining and sometimes scurrilous Custom Car magazine of the 1970s (below). Anyone that remembers that wickedly funny 'zine will remember that as "
Fast Five Director Speaks!
" Recently having had the experience of sitting through the latest edition of the Fast & Furious franchise with a roomful of children between the ages of five and nine, I was intrigued as to why this high-revving explosion-fest appealed to "
BMW 2002 short film – Autoerotica!
" Now we love our motors. And we love our HD video. And we love our soul music. But whoever is responsible for this webbified conjunction of three of our favourite things is either REALLY in love with these three things, "
America’s Dreamcars …
"Ok, ok. We concede. America owned the car in the 1950s. Us Europeans made some good motors, and we set ourselves up well for the ‘60s with the launch of the Mini in ’59. But we couldn’t get close to "
Influx Social
Europe’s Glory
"Fiat Abarth 750 Zagato Give a tiny Fiat chassis the Zagato bodywork treatment and a tuned engine and tweaked running gear from Mr Abarth. What more could you want from a pocket rocket for the fifties? Post war Italian austerity gets "
Rebel Bikers?
"Leather jacket and jeans. The motorcycle rider’s default setting. Motorcyclists have been wearing leathers since their machines developed enough power to bother a rice pudding’s epidermis. The cowhide and denim combo became a global ‘rebel’ uniform, however, after "
Internationalist!
"words and pictures Liz Seabrook Andy Watkins is a self-confessed motorbike geek. In his basement garage in Bristol sit five beauties: a 1937 Ariel, a Hailwood Ducati replica, a ’66 Harley patiently awaiting attention, a Norton 650 and the apple of his eye, "
Shawn Dickinson
"Artist Shawn Dickenson was born and raised near the coast of Los Angeles and spent most of his childhood surfing and drawing cartoons. Eventually he studied art at the Antelope Valley college before pursuing a career as a cartoonist. He "
The Joy of Graph #1
"[gallery link="file"] We're unashamed fetishists of automotive design and spend an unhealthy time online and at various car events sifting through the voluminous back catalogue of a century of car culture. Our mission, dear reader, is to dig out "
Le Mans 2011
" Click images and click top right to go huge! With the great weekend at la Circuit La Sarthe almost upon us there's little we'd love to do more than pull up the deep buttoned man- chair up close to the "
Japanese Phatness
" all images via JNC Mind driving may be the preserve of license-less 11 years old, but in the Influx household it remains firmly at the front of our adultescent imaginations. So we were excited this morning when news hot of the "
Dress up and Drag!
" We approach the whole bike thing as a bit of a giggle. What's not to love - in a boyish, stupid sense of fun kind of way - about riding on a bike with an engine? Sometime there seems to "
