"We're big fans of the jet age. And this stunning Ghia-bodied Fiat 8V 'Supersonic' is a high point in the design style that has become known as 'jet age'.
Mid 20th century was a stone cold high point for industrial "
It’s never really occurred to us to aspire to an apartment in Monaco, or a Cabana in some bond-villainish kind of tropical island, full of bikini-ed Amazons and dodgy Lotharios, with digits and teeth made of aerospace materials. But if we ever would have done we would have fantasized about installing a salmon pink cutie like this Fiat 600 Jolly by Ghia.
But this was no bond villain’s island runabout: rather the chairman of Fiat’s yacht tender. The result of suave and loaded Gianni Agnelli’s desire, this piece of automotive camp was offered to the public in limited numbers from 1957. Based upon the standard Fiat 500, the Jolly came with reinforced bodywork with a byzantine ‘Surrey’ top, wicker seats straight off the patio and no doors. It was built by Ghia – before Ford bought up the brand and debased the noble Carrozeria into a trifling trim level – and so it boasted excellent build quality and an appropriately high price tag, more than double the cost of a standard 500. That’s erm, Jolly pricey. Sorry.
RM recently off-hired this particular little beauty for over £100K: so we wonder what sort of yacht-owner would have the oligarch-like audacity to snap this up.
Whoever it was, you have to salute his jaunty steeze.
"Aston Martin and James Bond have more in common than a joint big-screen adventure every few years. Every Bond movie features a scene where James seems to be facing certain death, but pulls off a near-miraculous escape. Aston Martin has "
"This is quite possibly the most politically incorrect road movie ever made.
Coming straight out of 1981 New Zealand, what would you expect?
The story goes like this: ne'erdowell Gerry from the North Island hires a yellow mini using a stolen "
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Spanish agency Leo Burnett Iberia have come up with an interesting, colourful print campaign designed to hammer home the message that consumers can design their own cinquecento.
Brazilian Illustrator and Art Director Bruno Nakano "
"It's a while since we ran a Jetsons inspired American land-yacht.
Here's one of the best.
The Chrysler Diablo is the result of an unholy match between Detroit and styling house Ghia - via the famous penmanship of designer Virgil "
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The Abarth badge, all Scorpions, proletarian pomp and red stripes, is sixty this year.
Having found new life in the tuned version of Fiat's Giugiaro-penned Grande Punto and the coolest little kid on the block the 500, we thought it about "
"It sounds like a very tall order, fitting a Bentley into a SsangYong.
We managed it though, and with room to spare. How? This lofty SsangYong is one of the Korean car maker's largest models, the Tivoli XLV, a stretched "
"Honda calls the CB1000R a ‘neo sports cafe’. It’s a fresh take on cafe racers, those so very 1960s, Quadrophenia-style rides. This, however, is much more modern and ‘The Matrix’. You can imagine Keanu riding it, bullet-time, in "
"In 2018 Influx brought you more cars, bikes, people and culture than ever before.
What was your highlight?
We featured everything from home-built bikes in our VC London film, and completely bespoke cars like Charles dos Santos' V8-powered Nissan drift "
"In 2019 we're going to be showing more videos than ever before - and this time our social media followers get to choose what happens!
We're offering you the chance to help decide what a video will be about, and how "