Sometimes no matter how much heart, soul, and money you flush down the greasy toilet that is your project car... the rust wins. When these guys grudgingly gave up on their 1957 Land Rover Series 1, the company secretly resorted it and you're gonna love seeing the owners' reaction when they get it back.
Ah, the Earl's Court Motor Show. It's such a British motor show that anyone even walking past it will find they've grown a pair of SU carbs on their lungs and they can no longer reliably turn on lights. And here it is, in full color!
Believe it or not, Land Rover and fancy woodsy clothier Barbour have not been officially affiliated until now. Their celebratory press release included this clichebomb of a photo, which I sure hope you'll help us make a lot funnier.
The story of how newborn America won its independence from England, the greatest superpower of the era, is wonderful. It's got a great underdog to root for, noble and lofty ideals, and a trio of corners for every hat. But for a tale about war, it could use a little something else.
There was no reason not to drive your 1993 Volvo 440 off a building—at least that is what this British Volvo commercial seemed to suggest.
The ninth installment of Josh Clason's Depth of Speed series introduces us to Roger and Rob Gisseman, two generations of British car lovers.
This is Paul Hutton, 40, of Clacton-on-Sea, England. A judge recently convicted him for operating a 4-mph toy electric Barbie car in front of his house while drunk. He has lost his driver's license but earned our undying respect.
For many British cars of the 1960s, if it still runs today, it's a triumph. Now, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a running Triumph that may be a herald of top-down driving to come.
The nanny state has added one more criteria to their driver licensing tests: Eco-friendly driving skills. The Telegraph reports that the new testing is being implemented to comply with EU regulations, with government officials stating that motorists practicing the eco-friendly driving techniques could see savings of…
Here's your chance to buy the "Rolls Royce of Rolls Royces," a pristine 1954 Phantom IV H.J. Mulliner Limousine, and one of only 18 built. This particular example belonged to Princess Margaret, the only member of the British royal family known to have engaged in a life-or-death struggle with her breakfast. Phantom IVs…
Yeah, the TR7 sucked so hard that owners had a tough time opening their garage doors (due to the mighty pressure differential created by the car's overwhelming "suck field"). But still, when I was a young lad, dreaming of future wheels, I thought the wedge-shaped Triumph was cool as hell. The TR7 had a typical…
Occasionally, while meandering the byways of the interwebotubes, you find something rare and beautiful that makes you rethink an entire marque. Prior to this find, my perception of Britain's' oldest carmaker, Daimler (unlike at DCX, where the pronunciation of Chrysler is silent, here it's nonexistent) and its…
Our mates at Carscoop report on this Mini Cooper concept, built by engineers at the UK's PML, unveiled at the British Motor Show this week. Each wheel has its own motor — like Mitsubishi's MIEV concepts — and at the kilowatt equivalent of 160hp each, the total is a mind-warping 640 hp, with — now, there's gotta be a…
Visitor to the British International Motor show got a chance to see the latest in homemade, absolutely pointless (in a good way) transportation in the BykaTryka SK8. Surely the concept vehicle — angel investors take note — will fill a yet-to be recognized niche market, say, among drag-racing groundskeepers or biker…
The blokes at Pistonheads came away with shots of the Caparo T1 — which looks even more menacing than it did in the renderings. We wouldn't mess with the T1 if it had a big-ass gun and could turn itself iinto droplets of mercury so it could find us behind a locked door. Blimey.
It's not a crash scene from "Formula One: The Puppet Show," it's an F1 car done up Hanging Gardens of Babylon style at the British International Motor Show — all of its sundry parts suspended from the ceiling by cables. How bettter to imbue the sport of shikhs with properly Londonesque art-geek pretense? Right, the…
Something tells us this guy was a friggin' wiz on his Big Wheel. [via Carscoop]
Apparently no one before this weekend had ever driven more than 175.7 mph in London, except in PS2 (though one banker was reportedly clocked at 168 mph on foot following a stop for curry at Canary Wharf). It was a Mercedes McLaren SLR that set the record at London City Airport, outside the jurisdiction of traffic…
Mazda took the wraps off the MX-5 Roadster Coupe earlier today at the 2006 British Motor Show. Using technology first developed for the origami industry, the company's engineers figured out a way to fit the roof — which Mazda says is the fastest in production (12 seconds from top to not) — into the same space as the…
Yesterday, Jaguar introduced its newest all-aluminum hi-po sedan, the XJR Portfolio — fittingly, at the British Motor Show in London. The Portfolio is the production version of the Concept Eight the company showed off in New York in 2004. It'll be available this fall in regular and long-wheelbase versions, both…
