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The Electric TT: The Answer or a Chancer?

Bikes

"The 2010 eGrandPrix race season has been announced. It will now culminate with a championship race organized by the European Motorcycle Union at Spain's Albacete circuit. The date has yet to be announced, but the addition of this championship gives the "

Future Classic: The Lotus Evora

Cars

"Consensus seems that the ride and the dynamics are perfect: but if anything the chassis could handle another hundred horses. There have been a few gripes about interior trim and ergonomics, but that doesn't alter the success of the design. "

Agni: Is This the future of Bike Racing?

Bikes

"The Lowdown Anglo-Indian company Agni manufactures DC motors in India that are used mainly to power go-karts for indoor tracks. "We entered the race to promote the motors," designer Cedric Lynch says. The TTX organizers put Agni in touch with "

Futurama!

Cars

"The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair – which took place of course just as the world teetered on the brink of apocalypse – made the expansive promise to show visitors 'the world of tomorrow.' At the fair's heart was the General "

Affordable Electric Cars?

Cars

"Car manufacturers the world over are finally waking up to the almost indisputable fact that to make their business futures sustainable, they will be forced to explore not only hybrid technology, but also full plug-in electric solutions. It has been "

Mechanicity: A German Romance

Cars

"Remember how the original Mercedes-Benz A-class famously fell over in the ‘elk test’? Or how all the original Audi TTs had to be dragged back to the factory in Ingolstadt to cure their high-speed handling ‘idiosyncrasies’? Or Daimler’s disastrous "

Influx Top Ten German Cars of All Time

Cars

"10 Ruf CTR Yellowbird Poster child for insane German tuning industry. Beat the Ferrari F40 to first production car with 200MPH top end. 'Nuff said. 9 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL 6.9 [caption id="attachment_8859" align="alignnone" width="1000"] The most outrageous S-class borrowed the 6.9-litre engine "

Deutschland über alles!

Cars People

" Paul Anderson: BMW 1502 Paul Anderson lives in the Pembrokeshire resort town of Tenby and works for clothing company Howies. When he’s not surfing and tinkering with his pretty little 1976 Beemer, that is. “The Marks & Spencer taupe colour matches "

BMW: Brand Royalty

Cars

"Every car company reflects and is a product of the times in which it operates. BMW perhaps more than any on the planet, has evoked the changing fortunes of the nation that gave it birth. We selected some of our "

Evolution of a Classic: The Porsche 911

Cars

"1963 911 by Barbara Hulanicki When the 911 first appeared at the Frankfurt show in the autumn of 1963, it was slated as a simply a better-handling, sportier replacement of the 356. Little did anyone realise that the 911 would become a symbol of all the "

Homage to the Nordschleife

Cars

"As long as you've got wheels and a license, it's open to you. Yes, you. But careful. You still have to play by the rules. For me, the car park at the Nordschliefe is as mad as the track. All "

Audi Quattro: The Power of Four

Cars

"If someone hadn't invented Group B rally at the start of the eighties, the times would have defined the form and it would have happened anyway. All of a sudden, what had been a relatively worthy, moustached and tweeded form "

Twin-Pot Dictatorships

Bikes

"Although Germany is not synonymous with passionate success in biking or motorsport, the fact is that motorcycle knowledge, know-how and technology introduced by German companies has been exported to every corner of the planet. We gathered together fifteen of the "