"They call it an outlaw. And that's why we like it. But it has nothing to do with legality. It has everything to do with orthodoxy. When the concours-fetishists denigrate cars who don't take originality to be the quintessence of "
" Mexican artist Damian Ortega likes to take things apart and then (almost) piece them together again. In his most celebrated work, 2002's Cosmic Thing, he disassembled a Volkswagen Beetle and re-composed it piece by piece, suspended from wire in mid-air. "
"The original Volkswagen Beetle’s silhouette is as distinctive as it is ubiquitous. Curvy yes, sporty, no. But then that wasn’t part of the Beetle’s brief. Designed in 1938 to get the German masses moving, it took until 1945 for "
"We all have a favourite era of Escort. Usually, it chimes with the ones we remember as children if we're young enough to have been born after the Escort itself. Some of the (much) younger people involved with Influx adore "
"For most of us, the concept of going flat out on a motorcycle is pushing to overtake on a straight bit of road, or opening the bike up during a track day. But the reality is almost incomprehensible to us "
"It wasn’t any of his five world titles. It wasn’t having a statue of himself unveiled in his hometown of Tranas. Nor was it having his sport’s World Cup trophy named after him. Those incredible accolades may "
