Good and evil, yin and yang, darkness and light; or a black Mazda Miata with a lovely interior. Not sure where I’m going with this overly epic entrance for a story of a car many might consider not-so-epic. Of course people on that side of the fence have never driven the topless, three pedaled, lightweight …
Neue Klasse – 60 Years of the BMW 1500
There are moments in any successful business that have, or will, come to define it; and its success or failure. There's IBM's Personal Computer, the Walkman from Sony; Apple's iPhone moment. For BMW, it's Projekt Neue Klasse; and the birth of the BMW 1500. History Lesson Facing a Grille-ing - BMW's iconic kidney grille debuted …
Gemballa – A Brief History
The Marc-Philipp Gemballa Marsien is a wonderful thing; that rare combination of modern Engineering, retro design and a laser-guided attitude to detail. It's a two-finger salute to a car industry that some would say is becoming increasingly homogeneous. It's also, based on recent legal proceedings, not a Gemballa at all. But it is. Sort of. …
People of Influence – Ian Gordon Murray
There are very few petrolheads around the world who, at some point, didn't have the McLaren F1 taped, glued or Blu-Tacked to their wall; and rightly so. A perfectly proportioned hypercar (arguably the first), it olbiterated the established limits of a what a car was supposed to do, all the while remaining wonderfully handsome and …