The mirror plated supercar is a quintessential part of Gulf Arab car culture, along with the Transformers Camry and the fetishistic application of negative camber. When applied by Britain’s eternal and chamaeleonic rock star David Bowie to a plain old Mini, including all its windows, it becomes something else entirely.
My parents are research scientists and their work took us to the US when I was growing up. When we moved back to Hungary, on July 16, 1993, I saved a can of Coke on the plane home. I drank it yesterday.
Thirteen words for you: Pretty please, with sugar on top, do not drive like this at home. Aside from that, wicked car control, Random Turkish YouTube Dude!
What a way to turn a perfectly pedestrian activity into something very uncanny: A row of upright BMW 700 body shells on a Krupp truck with a Venn diagram for a logo. It’s like a secret Europe that’s hard to believe ever existed.
Low-digit license plates are big in Arabia. Abu Dhabi’s 1 sold for $14 million in 2008 while in neighboring Dubai 1 is registered to Sheikh Mohammed, the emirate’s ruler. This is plate number 1 from Oman attached to 612 hp of German bliss and I saw it go like hell.
Lewis Hamilton pulling into the McLaren pits before heading to his new home at Mercedes was far from without precedent at McLaren. In 2011 in Shanghai, Jenson Button fancied a wheel change at then-dominant Red Bull’s pits before Sebastian Vettel’s mechanics waved him on. Can you recall other instances of racing…
A drizzle of rain, a sprinkling of team orders, a dash of slapstick, and Sebastian Vettel being Sebastian Vettel: the F1 race in Malaysia was a bit of a handful. Here’s a selection of the most interesting photos from the wire services.
In three months, a swarm of Audis, Corvette C6.R’s and Aston Martins will descend on Le Mans to race against the clock for the 81st time. The 24 hours is the greatest celebration of motor racing and part of the fun is the car you drive there.
This is not a small lake. It’s the pickup bed of a Chevrolet SSR, photographed in a quaint little Hungarian village whose streets are only just wide enough for such exuberant American eccentricity. I cannot think of a weirder product in General Motors’s long history but maybe you can?
Kimi Räikkönen, famous for a nonchalant dump and a nonchalant F1 world title, showed actual, human-like emotion when he won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, his 20th career win. Was this the first time he smiled on the podium or have you seen him display emotion before?
Pulp Fiction turns 20 this year and it’s one movie with some iconic car scenes. The red Malibu, the gray NSX, the radically redecorated Nova. So how about a more obscure one, a poster of gorgeous cars hanging on the wall of Bruce Willis’s character Butch’s apartment? That’s a Gullwing in the middle. But can you name…
A year after driving a Scion FR-S across Europe from Barcelona to Budapest, the Hungarian Wolverine crack team is heading to the US to drive from San Francisco to Miami and film it. They don’t know America’s roads so how about we show them?
Whoever was responsible for picking the outfits for Jeep’s hostesses at the Geneva Motor Show did a spectacular job. They were by far the best-dressed women at the show, displaying a masterful blend of Americana with a European touch.
Lewis “I Really Like To Name-Drop Ayrton Senna” Hamilton may have a flashy new car at Mercedes but he’s also got some issues with self-importance. In a slightly surreal interview with The Guardian, he talked about building a museum for his trophies and his self-designed helmets, his new dog, and his new $30M plane.
Dan O’Bannon and Thomas Warkentin’s “Soft Landing” features a first generation Corvette dropped from orbit by Space Shuttle Enterprise. You may be interested!
Remember this little guy from 2006, the hydrofoil car Rinspeed CEO Frank Rinderknecht drove, if that’s the right word, across the English Channel? It’s real. The Rinspeed Splash was on display in Geneva. And while it will never cease being surreal to think it’s a hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car…
Who cares about the total absence of rear legroom? It’s an FR-S with the wind in your hair! Same two-liter boxer, same light weight, same thirty-year-old concept honed to modern perfection. They’ll build it, won’t they?
New new cars. Too heavy, doors too high to cock your elbow out, weird plastics, the works. It’s not a problem old Morgans have. Come and join us in the oldest new car on the show floor, the Morgan 4/4.
Volvo make Volvos, right? Volvos don’t get the blood boiling. But in a world where most carmakers outdo each other in aggression, Volvo’s quiet stance is quite remarkable.
