Jaguar Design at Clerkenwell

Cars

" If you were lucky enough to find yourself at Clerkenwell Design Week recently, you would have been treated to a delicious display of the celebrated new design ethos of Jaguar. The centrepiece of the show was the one-off C-X75 concept "

Barry Lee, Ford & Rallycross

Cars People

" Barry Lee, charismatic king of the UK Rallycross scene of the 1970s, used to own the garage around the corner from where I lived in East London as a kid. There was something so completely of the time about our "

Titillation in Tarmac

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] Without getting too Walt Whitman on you, around this time of year we get an uncontrollable urge to get out there and take to the road. The long days are perfect for dawn patrols on empty highways. "

Hot Wheels Goes Live!

Cars

" We're not sure if we're posting this because it is a spectacular act of sublime automotive madness, because it is a brilliant bit of viral marketing, or whether the coverage is so good. Either way, the Indy 500 weekend just past "

Go Little Honda

Bikes

" Of all the odes to bike culture that have ever emerged across the media platforms, the Beach Boy-penned sixties hit Little Honda by the Hondells is one of the least expected. You might normally associate west coast petroliste cool with "

Abarth Love

Cars

" Something about Abarth's Lunacy that reached its heights in the little 695 carlo converted Fiat from the sixties. Any manufacturer who would strap an oversize engine into a production car and solve the cooling issue by leaving the boot open is "

Audi A8 & Hyperspace

Culture

" Not sure how we missed these stunning pieces of photographic art last year, but we did. The series of pictures were commissioned from Warsaw-based photographer Igor Omulecki to evoke the launch of the A8 in 2010. Audi of course have a "

Bertone Ramarro Corvette Concept

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] In a piece of quintessential 1980s expansionism, Bertone, kings of angular audacity, decided to hit up the American market with the Ramarro concept (that's 'Green Lizard' to you and I). The Ramarro was based on a bog-standard 83 "

Influx Social

Cars are the Stars #33

Cars

" If you're not particularly into down tempo pop music of an R&B pursuasion you might want to watch this video with the sound turned down. If like us however, you love the retro-futuristic cool of Honda's NSX and "

Godspeed Redux

Bikes

" Received a very welcome dispatch this morning from CICERO DEGUZMAN JR- bringing news of new collaborations, new books and a very nice new blog format for his very delectable series of pictures that document vintage choppers, their builders, workspaces and "

Cruising: 911 964

Cars

" Not sure why, but the 964 variant of the 911 has been a particular favourite of ours. Perhaps it's because we like the underdog. And the glorious history of Zuffenhausen-wrought auto loveliness this is probably the designation of the totemic brand that "

Doodlings to Design

Cars

" Stumbled across these appealing little line drawings, taken for an early 1960s design study for NSU's Autonova GT (the manufacturer that would fuse with Auto Union before becoming Audi). They instantly bought to mind that little-boy fascination that we have "

My Fair Lady

Cars

" For some reason, it has only just come to our atention that the Datsun Roadster series of cars are an extremely pretty collection of open top sportsters. These sunny sundays we've been blessed with of late have been great for "

Friday Bike Crush #3

Bikes

" We've been obsessed with this bike for months. It's basically , a stripped-down Honda Dominator with the street tracker treatment - that amounts to a a sliced off rear subframe, a big headlight, some nice little extras and loads of extraneous "

Ferdinand’s Children

Cars People

"In the history of Automotive brands there has been none with the length, breadth or depth of Porsche's influence. It's amazing to think that it's over a century ago that Ferdinand Porsche designed the world's first petrol-electric hybrid - as "