"Talk about a ‘campervan’ and you’re almost certainly thrusting a picture of a VW into the listener’s mind. It's the benchmark. The yardstick. The trendsetter. And that makes each generation of VW Camper very important. The iconic splitties "
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Volvo 240: bulletproof brick of the suburbs
"Before it became a maker of cool premium cars and SUVs with ‘Thor’s Hammer’ headlights, Swedish flag bonnet tags and crystal gear levers, Volvo produced a number of now-cult machines. The angular 240 is one, and alongside the 480 ES, it "
Deus Swank Milano Rumble
"One quiet day in the studio, still coming down from the high of the Sideburn/Deus Ex Machina ‘Snow Quake’ event in Italy in January, I found my mouse hovering over the ‘buy now’ button on the flights I had "
Fiat Coupé
"In the late 1980s a plan was hatched in the corridors of Turin: Fiat would return to the days when they built stylish and desirable coupés. The plan called for the new car to be built on the Tipo "
Ford Escort RS Cosworth: meeting a childhood hero
"Fast Ford hysteria has hit cataclysmic heights in recent years. The latest Focus RS was launched, instantly becoming the world’s favourite hot hatch and trumping all of its – much pricier – German rivals for both pace and driving pleasure. The "
A Vision of Art Deco Beauty – The Talbot-Lago T150 Teardrop is set to sell at auction
"Cars can sometime transcend offering a purely automotive experience and move into the realm of fine artistry. The art deco masterpiece that is the Talbot-Lago T150-C SS ‘Goutte d’Eau’ Coupé certainly fits into that particular category. It was "
Snow Quake: the coldest motorcycle race on earth
"As my breath clouded my vision, a thick fog clinging to the air in front of my face, I surveyed the scene outside of the warmth of my Fiat 500 rental car. Inside, with the heater blasting, the reading of -10"
Having a heart attack in a million pound Mercedes
"It sat, in silver paint of course, lightly flattened and patinated by half a century’s careful polishing and rubbing in the sun-drenched courtyard of a Spanish hotel. We were in town to drive its successors, but I couldn’t "
Caterham Seven 310R: Part one – The Background
"It’s not often that Caterham comes out with a new model. You’d think that any developments it could make with the Seven would have been discovered by now - after all, this is a car that’s been "
How the NSU Ro80 created modern Audi
"If not for this beautiful, elegant piece of saloon design, we would have no modern-day Audi, because the NSU Ro80 was, in essence, the Genesis of the now-mighty German brand. Of course, Audi’s original beginnings lay in the combined "
Our first look at the hot new Honda Civic Type R has us frothing…
"We love the Honda Civic Type R. Soichiro Honda has been responsible for hundreds of killer machines. The cars as well as the bikes, after all, are encoded with the sort of engineering DNA that produces performance as well as "
CX Safari: Citroen’s ludicrous slice of loveliness
"We would particularly like a later model version. Preferably in gold. You can do a number of things with this car that are impossible in any other vehicle of its type. You can get a twelve-foot paddle board in the "
Rebel Bikers: are they hairy chopper heads or Moto X kids?
"What does the motorcycle rebel really look like? Marlon Brando lounging sexily across his Triumph in The Wild One was the start of something. Or it could have been the end, depending on your perspective. The motorcyclist has for the "