The thing about me is every time I encounter a new video of the Matra V12, I post it. It’s that simple!
Look, I don’t really think I want to go hunting if I can’t dress up like a member of Fleetwood Mac and drive a Matra-Simca Rancho. But that’s just me.
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Bless your ears this morning with a Matra V12, “it sounded like power” as it’s famously known, running on a test…
When we look for cars, we value both The Intelligence and The Space. Also, a deeply strange 2+1 seating arrangement featuring one normal seat and a bench with two seatbacks. That’s why the Matra-Simca Bagheera is the only car for us. Also, all other cars.
There was little else to the Matra MS11 than a humongous French V12 which wasn’t very good. But all the car needed was a bit of old-school French engineering. A year later the MS80, its sucessor, sailed Jackie Stewart to his first F1 title. (Photo by al_green)
The French might be struggling a bit with getting their mojo back at the moment, but let's not forget that we would…
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In 1971, Jean-Pierre Beltoise ran out of fuel in the 1000 Kilometers of Buenos Aires and tried to push his Matra…
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Prints and paint, but no photoshop. The founder of the excellent formfreu.de, Markus Haub, transforms vintage racing…
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The reader who sent in the shots of this lil' yellow devil suggests that we do a "Guess This Car" quiz. So take your…
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path. . . Thus Rudyard Kipling introduced the jungle cat who…
Say you've got a beater Mazda RX-7 with a good engine on one side of the garage and a clean Matra Murena with a…
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Amongst Los Jalops, a Renault Avantime has only been spotted once — on the streets of gay Paris last year. Chalk-up…
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