February 10, 2012 – Have you ever wondered what happens to all those old cars which turn into neither steel scrap nor gleaming restorations? Cars which simply fall out of the life cycle of cars and fade away. More »
What Made You Think The Second Hummer Wouldn’t Also Fall Through The Ice?
February 7, 2012 – Eastern Europe has been under a Siberian spell for a week or so, prompting the owner of a Hummer H2 to test the six inches of ice on Hungary’s Lake Balaton for some Siberian-style winter driving. More »
In the ‘60s, F1 Drivers Wintered by Racing in the Tasman Series
February 6, 2012 – Back in the days of Formula One’s 1.5-liter years, there was no winter off-season for the best drivers. Once the Grands Prix in Europe were over, drivers and teams flew down New Zealand and Australia to compete against the locals, who put up quite a fight. The Tasman Series was a function of... More »
British Comedian Draws Ayrton Senna On Used Envelope
February 3, 2012 – This is Noel Fielding’s take on the iconic color combination of white, red, yellow, green and black better known as Ayrton Senna driving the wheels off one of his McLarens, drawn upside down in felt-tipped pen on the back of a Royal Mail envelope for The Guardian. More »
How Apple Bought Saab’s Futuristic Mapping Software
January 27, 2012 – Six months before Saab the car company went under the last time, Apple, in complete secrecy, bought a futuristic mapping spinoff from Saab the defense contractor. More »
Happier Days For Kim Jong-il’s Lincoln Hearse
January 27, 2012 – Back when Kim Jong-il’s hearse was not Kim Jong-il’s hearse but a member of his father Kim Il-sung’s official fleet, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu paid a visit to North Korea. More »
This Mercedes Killed A Nazi General
January 24, 2012 – When a pair of British-trained Czech and Slovak assassins attacked one of Nazi Germany’s most sinister leaders in Prague in May 1942, they were armed with submachine guns and anti-tank mines. More »
How A Track Star Helped An F1 Team Make Pitstops Faster
(Jalopnik.com ) January 20, 2012 – In 2011, Williams finished ninth in the Formula One Constructors’ Championship, their worst result since 1978. Two months before the new season kicks off, the team have unveiled a rather unorthodox aspect of their efforts to return to their glory days in the ’90s: [Deadspin]
How A Track Star Helped An F1 Team Make Pitstops Faster
January 20, 2012 – In 2011, Williams finished ninth in the Formula One Constructors’ Championship, their worst result since 1978. Two months before the new season kicks off, the team have unveiled a rather unorthodox aspect of their efforts to return to their glory days in the ’90s: More »
Drive On! Is the Greatest Book About Cars Ever Written
January 20, 2012 – LJK Setright’s last book is 400 pages of dense, hyper-erudite British prose about cars and humans and the ways we’ve come entangled. It’s the life’s work of the smartest motoring journalist who ever lived and if you care about cars, you should read it. More »
Mongolian Traffic Lights Direct Horses, Not Cars
January 19, 2012 – It is rather fitting for Ulaanbaatar, the modern-day capital of the country which was once the largest contiguous land empire in the history of the world, to have traffic lights which depict horsemen. More »
Why The Renault Avantime Is Still So Heartbreakingly Cool
January 11, 2012 – After driving the new BMW M5 to death, our friend Nino Karotta, a.k.a. Hungarian Wolverine, is back with something completely different: a pleasant, autumnal ride in a Renault Avantime, the greatest modern GT to emerge from Europe. This particular Avantime, one of 8,557 made ten years ago, had... More »
Two Hot Minutes of Sheer Ferrari F40 Perfection
January 10, 2012 – This is life as lived inches away from the triple exhaust of a Ferrari F40 LM, driven to death at Lime Rock Park. Whatever you’re doing on the internet right now, stop. More »
A Secret Trip Inside A Russian Rocket Factory
January 6, 2012 – Russian blogger and photographer Lana Sator has taken urban exploring to its rather frightening apogee when she sneaked inside the NPO Energomash factory, which makes liquid-propellant rocket engines near the Khimki Forest outside Moscow, and made her way to the top and the bottom of the... More »
Naming Cars After Katabatic Winds
January 4, 2012 – This churning seascape off the coast of Antarctica, not a place you’d think of as the hotbed of car culture, shows in fact an undercurrent of automotive nomenclature: More »
Kim Jong-il’s last ride was in a 1976 Lincoln hearse
December 28, 2011 – For a dictator whose country has never been on particularly rosy terms with the United States, North Korea’s recently departed Dear Leader was allotted a rather peculiar hearse after a life of Mercedes-Benz fetish. More »
This Miata has gigantic balls
December 27, 2011 – The connection between sports cars and allegedly huge—or tiny—male genitals has never been as clear as with this black Miata, decked out with a titanic glans and a pair of galactic balls. More »
It’s a swarm of hand-drawn cars on The Single Lane Super Highway
December 21, 2011 – Digital artist Aaron Koblin—he’s the guy responsible for The Wilderness Downtown, the poignant and beautiful Arcade Fire music video which is generated to your childhood address—has a new project and it’s an endless stream of cars you can add to. More »
Tazio Nuvolari, deer hunter with Silver Arrow
December 21, 2011 – Hunting game and racing cars are generally pursued as separate pastimes, but not by Tazio Nuvolari at the 1938 Donington Grand Prix, where, as evidenced by a severed head, he did both with great aplomb. It was a weird race to begin with. More »
Watch the world’s longest train rumble across Australia
December 21, 2011 – With 22 million humans concentrated in a few pockets of its three million square miles, Australia has space aplenty for running massive trains. Forget road trains: More »
