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On Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard

People Culture

"When you glance back to the art being made in Europe around the time of the May ’68 student riots, there’s often a desire to connect the Molotov ministrations that were occurring on the streets to the palpable sense of "

French Car Culture in Five Interesting Objects

Cars

"We don't know how to define it. But there's something distinct about French car culture. It's encoded in the machinery that is made, designed and consumed in France, too. Here are five objects that put clear water between the culture "

Scooter Art: Selling the Dream

Bikes Culture

"The birth of the scooter coincided precisely with the post-war boom in the consumer economy. And along with the industrial boom came an explosion in what used to be called 'Commercial Art'. This was the age of the Ad Man. "

Vespa T5 Mk1: Pole Position, 1985

Bikes Culture

"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 "

Robert Llewellyn: Guest blogger

Cars

"There are occasions when sitting in my Tesla Model S that I recall the Talking Heads song, Once in a Lifetime. “And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, And you may ask yourself, well...how "

Ludicrous: Tesla Model S P90D L

Cars Culture

"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 "

TESLA: The Past, The Present, The Future

Cars

"The Tesla P90DL has rewritten the rulebook. Without an engine, without a fuel tank. Without noise, vibration or metal-on-metal resonance. Tesla has redefined for us what it means to drive. And we don’t only WANT one at a "

GTO: John DeLorean

Cars People Culture

"‘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 "