Imagine a Sunday drive in a red Ferrari convertible: sun on your face, wind in your hair, an exotic aural symphony heightening your senses as you balance throttle with traction, slinging from corner to corner in a flawless communion of mechanics and dynamics. Well that’s exactly what I had the…
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Twenty five years after production of the coveted F1 supercar ended, McLaren is once again putting drivers in the centre seat with the Speedtail, a 2.25 million USD hyper-grandtourer, 1,035bhp hypercar that places its driver in the middle, with place for two additional passengers either side. As much a spaceship…
It’s interesting to note that Rolls-Royce has continually avoided ever calling their first four-wheel drive an SUV. And while they apparently wanted to underplay its considerable capabilities by persistently calling it a “high-sided vehicle” during the run up to its debut, you shouldn’t for a second doubt its capacity to…
Such is the importance of the Gladiator to Jeep’s global customer base, and crucially not just its American one, that FCA (the acronym for the Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles corporation) thought fit to invite a handful of press from the Middle East to its global unveiling at the LA Auto…
Though it might look like it, no cars were harmed in the making of Fabian Oefner’s works of art. Instead, the young Swiss artist took apart model sets in a process he likens to peeling an onion. Painstakingly laying out the composition of the image in sketches, he then suspended…
It’s a funny thing but after flying all the way to Muscat in Oman to test drive Audi’s latest SUV, my first impression upon getting into the Q8 was actually one of confusion. You see, this car carries an enormous weight of expectation and that’s of course because it’s a…
The McLaren 720S is the new benchmark of supercars, beating the best of what Ferrari and Lamborghini have to offer with a wider breadth of ability. That’s quite something considering the company has only been around eight years. (Okay so they’ve actually been around as a race team since 1963,…
After making our way from Spielberg through miles of emerald Austrian countryside, over sweetly babbling brooks, past white gingerbread houses with brown trim and window boxes of barely contained pink geraniums, we turned into the forest. From there we took a trail and journeyed up through dense foliage into the…
In September we were invited to San Francisco to witness the future of Audi, and the future it seems is quiet, expensive and electric. But let’s not ignore how consumers are now buying more fossil-fuelled SUVs than ever before, so the question is: why is Audi messing with a good…
If the Veyron rewrote the book when it comes to hypercars, the Chiron represents Bugatti’s next volume. Harder, better, faster, stronger – we uncovered all you need to know about this Ultimate Car at its US launch in Pebble Beach. They say there’s a fine line between madness and genius.…