"The 125cc Vespa T5 was arguably the last sports Vespa developed and produced by Piaggio, the creators of the Vespa scooter. Launched in 1985 the T5 can trace its roots back to the first Vespa Gran Sport 150 (GS) of 1955, which was "
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Scooter mania! Teenagers and the Freedom Principle
" What does the scooter mean to you? It depends of course on your perspective. For some, the small displacement, step through scooter (with a skirt) is redolent of mid-century modernism, evoking the smells of Soho coffee bars and the texture "
Scooter Designer: Corradino D’Ascanio
"Whatever your scooter preference - the long, sleek slimness of the Lambretta or the relatively substantial, reliable and zippy Vespa profile - the same artist-designer can be credited with coming up with the scooter formula. It was the end of "
Youth Culture & the scooter…
"No other vehicle has mobilised a youth culture like the humble motor scooter. And this little machine didn't just do it the once. It did it three times. Go on, think about it… Yeah ok, so there were young rockers, "
Ludicrous: Tesla Model S P90D L
"In case you were wondering. We don't know what the ‘S’ stands for. The ‘P’, however, definitely stands for 'performance'. The '90' refers to the kilowatts put out by the electric motors. The ‘D’ denotes 'dual motor' (there's an "
FORD ESCORT MK 1: FORMULA ONE TEAM MANAGER’S RACE
"Is there anything cooler than an original Ford Escort Mexico? Yes, I tell you what is cooler than an original Ford Escort Mexico. A couple of fistfuls of original Ford Escort Mexicos, with Formula One bosses at the helm; men "
Bikesploitation: The Mini Skirt Biker Mob
"Time was when the mix of girls and biker gangs was truly threatening. At least that’s what you’d be led to believe if you were a viewer of Bikesploitation flicks of the late sixties. It’s an absurd "
GTO: John DeLorean
"‘John Zachary DeLorean, engineer, car maker and conman, born January 6 1925; died March 19 2005’ So read the Guardian obituary of that day. In Britain we remember him as the maker of the DeLorean - his eponymous, stainless steel, Belfast-born beast that tucked "
100 Years of Automotive Ads
" As the poet said: ‘April is the cruellest month… mixing memory and desire.’ For many of us this sums up our automotive buying fantasies - adolescent motor memories mixed with up to the minute salary busting desire. The crew most "
Auto Art: Tomas Pajdlhauser
"We stumbled across the lovely artwork of Tomas Pajdlhauser on the always-inspiring Le Container blog recently. Tomas is a Creative Director at Jam Filled Entertainment in Ottawa, Canada, and has spent the last 10 years in positions ranging from Art Direction, "
The Max Power Generation or…Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads?
"To those not embedded within the Max Power culture, its passing would hardly raise a ‘meh’, but this was a multi-million pound business with a dozen or more magazines feeding it, the largest of which was selling a quarter of "
Renault 5 Turbo
"It might not be the first motor you think of when you think of the mentalist modding culture of the mid-late nineties. But I owned a Renault 5 Turbo in the height on the madness. And know this: this car typified "
Max Power People
"Jordan: AKA Katie Price Few individuals are more associated with the excesses of the Max Power era than Jordan. We’re not sure whether she ever owned a Saxo, but she certainly graced covers, spreads and the bonnets and other "