What exactly is soul? And what constitutes soullessness? A lot of people will contend that most new objects lack soul. Whether it’s a piece of architecture, furniture or a car, there’s a commonly held notion that new means souless and old means soulful. Case-in-point: I have several European friends who don’t like new houses or [...]
Evelyn Stevens won Stage One of Gracia Orlova on thursday in a virtual repeat of her win at Fleche Wallone.
Blasting down the Autobahn at 150 mph for an extended period of time tends to be the kind of experience you don’t forget in a hurry. This is especially true if you are behind the wheel of the king of super saloons, a BMW M5. It’s been well over two years since we headed to [...]
Being a child of the 1970s, I grew up on a healthy doses of science fiction with films and TV shows like Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Transformers, The Jetsons, Robotech and Blade Runner helping to form my geeky ideas about futurism. This was further imprinted into my adolescent mind by cyberpunk authors like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson and the explosion of Japanese Manga in the west by films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed. The Force was my religion, Electro my soundtrack and Pixels my artform.
There is something magical about having races on city streets. It would be illegal and not to mention very dangerous to push any car to the limit on these downtown streets, but for one week out of the year exhaust notes reverberate off the high rises in downtown Long Beach. What I like about this course is [...]
How do you think it would feel to drive 16000 miles in this Mk1 Escort? In Pt1 I showed you just how Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm got themselves from London to Mexico in 1970, celebrating victory in the southern hemisphere after a titanic battle with mother nature and other works teams. Using the old school technology [...]
As car enthusiasts we love messing with our cars, whether improving performance or just making it look cooler, we continue to tinker to our heart’s content. But I don’t think I’m alone in saying that with age comes a respect for proper fitting panels, high quality precision and factory durability. Therein lies the bane of [...]
The 86 has been on sale in Japan for just two short weeks, but it’s quite evident the effect this model is having in the car world, began well before sales actually started. Toyota has handled the introduction of the 86 very well, giving lots of previews to the media and handing over cars or [...]
The KW Suspension gurus always work pretty fast but this time their work borderlines on unbelievable. Neither the Scion FR-S nor the Subaru BRZ are close to being out yet but KW has already created their pattented Varient 3 coilover system for the sh…
A Formula One car is one of the only race cars in the world that can decelerate nearly as fast as it accelerates. You might be used to that fact but when you really stop and think about it, being able to scrub off so much speed in such a short a moun…
