"When Ferrari make a press release announcing a new member of the family, the world listens. The gestation of a new Prancing Horse-badged car is riven with rumour and speculation. But there's one thing that always happens, no matter what "
IS-F Lexus for Humberside Police
" Let's face it. Every one of the nation's finest joined the police force so he or she can speed along on the blue light, breaking as many laws as the neenarr will allow. Come on, you know it's true. But "
Mark Gonzales: Skateboarding and Cars
" Skateboarding and petrol head-ism are two cultural spheres that seldom cross over (apart perhaps from when prepubescent playstation skaters crash into that incredible Pontiac Firebird that macks it down mainstreet in Skate). Interesting then, to see that legendary US skateborder "
Alfa Romeo Navajo Concept by Bertone
" Of all the futuristic concepts generated by the venerable carrozzeria of Bertone in the seventies, the Alfa Romeo Navajo is one of our favourites. The Navajo was ased on the mechanics of the venerable object of beauty that is the ,"
Steel Beauty
" Now don't get me wrong. We love cars and girls. We don't think we're being particularly anachronistc or sexist to say that the offset of a beautiful woman with a beautiful piece of automotive design can lead to pleasing aesthetic "
5 English Revolutionaries
" It occurred to us here at Influx towers that with the release of the new XJ imminent, that it is time to celebrate the passion for innovation and design in British cars. The XJ did after all, achieve its designation "
Honda RC-166: Hailwood’s Hornet
" If you're a lover of the classic and a have an inbred desire for things mechanical, the Honda RC 166 is a thing of true, timeless beauty. The inline six 250 was winner of 10 out of 10 races in the 1966 World Championships series "
Bertone BAT – Alfa Romeo Concept Cars
" At the beginning of the fifties, Alfa Romeo commissioned Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone to produce concept vehicles focussed on the effects of drag on a vehicle. It was eight years after the war, Italy was starting to reconstruct and it was "
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The Eight Principles of the Classic
"There's a lot of misunderstanding about the word 'classic'. And for such a controversial word, petrol heads and general lovers of cars and bikes use the word perhaps more than any other. In a noble attempt to clarify our terms "
Necessary Madness: Confessions of a Reluctant Classicist
"“Ooh – Please take me for a spin around the block, Steve,” squealed Liisa, our friend and host for the evening. Steve had arrived at Liisa and Mark’s house in his classic ’64 Sunbeam Alpine convertible (above) which was only fired "
The Cooling of the Classics
"A TONGUE-TIP TASTE OF CLASSIC BIKING: SAN FRANCISCO STYLE “The thing is with modern bikes, is they’ve got no soul.” Rob, proprietor of the Ace Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission district, presides over one of the hubs of "
Fangio: The Classic Personified
"BEN OLIVER EXAMINES THE LEGEND THAT IS FANGIO My Mum recently found a dog-eared, postcard-sized, black and white photograph. It was of Juan-Manuel Fangio, standing next to one of his fifties Mercedes W196 Grand Prix cars. In the top left, "
Alfaholics: Guilia GTA Reborn
" Alfaholics, run by the Banks family, (Max, (below) his brother Andrew and father Richard), have for the last decade or so been the go-to people if you want to trade, restore or build a classic Alfa. And with race-bred factory "
A Mini Obsession: Two Generations and Counting
" "It all started for me seeing Minis winning Monte Carlo Rallies in the sixties," Malcolm tells me. He goes on "It was the rally success combined with the glamourous people who owned them that captured my imagination." They call him "
C’était un Rendezvous!
"Early on a Sunday morning in the sweltering high summer of 1976, filmmaker Claude Lelouch set out to document Paris in one hair raising, white-knuckle ride through the city. In the process he broke so many laws that after the film "
The Beauty of Yellow
" It's the colour of Scuderia Ferrari, added by Enzo Ferrari - the backdrop of the prancing horse shield and the colour of his beloved hometown of Modena. Despite the wrong-headed notion that any Ferrari that's not finished in Rosso Corsa "
