"In our feature article ‘The Quiet Collaborator’ (Influx April Edition) we refer to the Saab 90 as a classic of the Oeuvre, and so it was.
But when you close your eyes and picture the perfect Saab, the Classic Saab, we’"
We think these are the best road movies ever made. Disagree? Then let us know…
Two Lane Blacktop
James Taylor (yes that one) and Dennis Wilson (from the Beach Boys) and a tricked out sleeper of a 55 Chevy. Put them together and you have the coolest road movie ever.
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Chevy Chase and family cross the Old Continent as the perfect approximation of the American güber. A classic of comedic errors.
Duel
Spielberg’s first feature and a terrifying ode to sustained road rage.
Thelma and Louise
In the top ten because girls love it. And so do we.
Easy Rider
Definitive Americana with Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda.
Little Miss Sunshine
Sweet, succinct and features a killer VW camper. What’s not to like?
Motorcycle Diaries
The reason Che Guevara is an icoc of revoution is because he knew how to live a true road trip.
Mad Max
Classic Aussie apocalyptica before Mel Gibson went weird.
Sideways
Two men of a certain age get on the road to taste fine wine and have menopausal misadventures. The Saab 900 convertible reflects the washed-up nature of the main characters. Elegant and touching.
Vanishing Point
Extreme GTO-pedalling in the mode of the sexually promiscious seventies.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Depp as Hunter S Thompson into the Dantean inferno of Vegas. On Acid.
"My headmistress had a Saab 96. In orange.
She was strange. An intellectual misfit. The sort of teacher you used to find in schools of the 1970s. A feminist when feminists were few and far between. Especially in East London. She "
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There's something about the great American road. It's always been an arena of mythic adventures, tortured mishaps and, if you're lucky, hilarious comedy.
And the comedy doesn't get much more hilarious than that dreamt up by Chevy Chase. His National "
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It's refreshing to know that the Eurotrash can get down with raw motorcycles every bit as much as our American cousins.
Blitz Motorcycles are a bunch of Parisian hipster gearheads who know the meaning of road trips and cycling freedom.
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Regular Influx devotees will realise that we spend a righteous amount of time scouring the World Wide Web for vintage images that reflect car culture down the ages in order to share their beauty.
It's an addictive, time-consuming pursuit but "
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Of all the obscure cars from Scandinavia, the Saab Sonett is the most pretty and the most frustratingly elusive. As I remember there was a Sonnett 3 in a Top Trumps card game in the 1970s, but we at Influx towers "
"Is there a madder car out there than the Ariel Nomad?
Part supercar, part beach buggy; it’s the ultimate on and off-road toy that you never knew you needed. Except someone clearly felt that the bonkers quotient wasn’t "
"‘Why don't we have both?’ says the young girl, shrugging a pair of pixelated shoulders, then the whole town celebrates.
As GIFs go, this looping snatch of taco ad has long since peaked, troughed and boomeranged back to retro classic "
"When we got asked to make this film, it had a working title of ‘Dad Had One’ and was always going to be a nostalgic look back at the cars of our youth.
Cortinas, Chevettes, Dolomites, Cavaliers, that sort of "
"When we think of motorcycle helmets we generally name Arai, Shoei, AGV, Shark, Nolan et Al. Not many motorcyclists globally would name Davida helmets, a small family-run business in Birkenhead, Merseyside. But this will soon be changing as the company "
