Hesketh Racing famously burst on the scene at exactly the right time during the 1970s, just when the average Britain needed an antidote to depressing daily news telling of Industrial unrest, multifarious EEC collaboration, high prices caused by oil-producers restricting supplies and a potential coal miners’ strike, writes Ken Davies. Formula One too was undergoing change with increasing … [Read more...]
Genesis gears up for Goodwood Festival
Genesis Motor Europe continues its role as official partner of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023. Following the successful debut of the partnership at the world-renowned automotive event in 2021, the award-winning Korean brand extended its commitment with an exclusive three-year association starting in 2022. This year Genesis will debut exciting new products at the … [Read more...]
New Aston Martin DB12 Super Tourer unveiled
Aston Martin's DB12 Super Tourer has been unveiled. It features the latest wide body styling and luxurious interior including AM's own infotainment system for the first time, a 680ps 4.0V8 twin-turbo petrol engine good for 202mph and 0-60mph in 3.5 second, all-new suspension with adaptive dampers and stability control for the rear wheel drive eight-speed powertrain, and unique Michelin tyres all … [Read more...]
Surviving to drive
Netflix compelling and successful series ‘Drive to Survive’ is rightly credited with breathing new life into Formula One by creating a whole new audience, especially in the USA. But the fly-on-the-wall reality series has also discovered cult heroes among previously unknown paddock personalities, particularly in minnow teams and Gunther Steiner, sometimes outspoken principal of the HAAS team, has … [Read more...]
Newslines 21 April
At the Shanghai Auto Show this week, HiPhi of China revealed the third member of its advanced model line-up, alongside its initial plans for global expansion. The new HiPhi Y will join the dual flagship models, X and Z, with plans for the first HiPhi customer cars on European roads within 2023, to be followed by the Middle East soon thereafter. Jaguar Land Rover will increase its investments … [Read more...]
Unique racer rises from scrapyard
The 1927 Alvis Grand Prix car, one of the first of its kind to use front wheel drive, has been extensively restored 96 years after a retirement at Brooklands curtailed the factory effort. Abandoned in a Warwickshire scrapyard after its race career ended, the sole surviving Alvis Grand Prix is highly original, having not been subjected to years of competition. It has been revealed at Automobile … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: GWM Funky Cat 1st Edition
The UK’s electric car revolution is becoming a bloody affair. From initially resisting the new technology on cost grounds including writing off established investments in petrol and diesel engine technology and having to develop hybrid or pure electric powertrains, along with making tens of thousands of workers redundant, manufacturers have struggled to convince buyers into showrooms or on-line … [Read more...]
Up close and personal with Ferrari F1
Fans visiting The Formula 1® Exhibition, in Madrid, can expect to get up close and personal with Scuderia Ferrari’s 2021 power unit. Exclusively displayed at the show, its inclusion marks the first ever public display of a Scuderia Ferrari power unit, and the first display of a Ferrari engine since 2013. Known for their extreme secrecy regarding design and technology, Scuderia Ferrari have … [Read more...]
Memory Lanes Rally Tales
The latest volume of Peter Robinson’s Memory Lanes Rally Tales series has just been released and is possibly his best so far! Providing stories about rallying from the 1960s and 1970s, Peter’s latest A4 size high quality hard back provides 425 pages split into 53 fascinating chapters, each telling its own diverse rally tale and making it convenient for readers to dip in and out of the 425-page … [Read more...]
Newslines 20 February
Following the positive feedback on the one-off presented in summer 2022, MINI is going ahead with a small series of all-electric MINI Convertible (power consumption combined: 17.2 kWh/62 miles according to WLTP; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km, Energy Consumption – 3.6 miles/kWh), representing another big step in the direction of electric mobility. "Three years ago, we launched the MINI Electric, … [Read more...]
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