From the 1956 Paris Show Stand (or so the seller claims) comes this eccentric French house on wheels. You’ll never be accused to trying to keep up with the Joneses with this camper van. They can keep their diesel trucks and their $100,000 trailers as you waft effortlessly in this front-wheel drive, front-engined classic. The [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010
All-wheel-drive road cars, up until relatively recently, have been a little thin on the ground. Jensen came on the scene first with the FF, sporting Ferguson Formula AWD and Dunlop Maxaret mechanical anti-lock brakes. Jensen’s limited production capabilities (as well as being, well, British) kept it a niche player. An oddity from a company famous [...]
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Photography is one of the most accessible forms of art. Seemingly, all it requires is a good camera (such as a Leica) and a subject, whereas something like sculpture requires, y’know, skill. Yet despite the seemingly mundane pre-reqs, photography is still a difficult art form to master, just like any other. Photography isn’t just accessible [...]
Monday, April 12, 2010
For those of you who have never heard of Switzer Performance, you’re in for a treat. The Ohio based company is owned by the eponymous Tim Switzer and it specializes it taking perfectly insane turbocharged production cars and turning them into absolute world beaters. The company is renowned for its work in tuning the Porsche [...]
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Now on eBay for only $CDN100,377 is the 2005 Fisker Latigo CS. Never heard of it?
Friday, April 2, 2010
Growing up, I was a full-on Legomaniac. Once, I even entered a competition, which I promptly won. But this was years before my interest in cars grew into the fervent passion it now is. Needless to say, for me, the worlds of Lego and cars never really merged. Apparently they did for the Australian engineer [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Globe and Mail has just posted up their Valentine’s Guide to Vehicular Sex, presumably in time for ardent readers to rush out and get themselves one of their listed vehicles in time for VD…uh, Valentine’s Day. This article also mentions a certain documentary about mechaphiles who do, indeed, have sex with their cars, not [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and first produced 51 years ago, the Mini was a revolutionary front-engined front-driver that maximized occupant capacity like no car before it. Throw some maple syrup on there and you’ve got yourself a Cabane à Sucre. [96dpi/flikr via tumblr]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
On New Year’s Eve, at Red Bull’s 2010 New Year No Limits show, Travis Pastrana successfully jumped his Subaru WRX STI an astonishing 269 feet, from a pier on Long Beach to a barge waiting in the harbour. This beat out Ken Block’s previous 2006 world record by almost a full 100 feet! Watch the [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Venerable motorsports news site Crash.net has been running this hilarious series of cartoons called USF1: The Series and starring “Peter Windsor” and “Ken Anderson”. It culminated in a Christmas special just last week, and the animation team behind it will shortly be presenting a new series called TailEnders that will also run on Crash.net. After [...]
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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