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This Makes Ski Lifts Incredibly Boring
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Think you’re a badass? Or at least maybe you’ve accomplished some cool stuff at your job? Nope, you aren’t and you haven’t. Know why? Because you haven’t flown six Astra HD8 8×6 heavy duty trucks over the Swiss Alps via cable tramway to service a hugely ambitious tunneling and power plant project. That is unless…
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The Hybrid Car Is Dead. Long Live The Hybrid Car!
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It’s been months since I actually drove the 2011 Lexus CT200h. Well past the industry-standard thinking period. Well past the point of reason to write a relevant review. This does not escape me. The problem has been I didn’t know what to think of the car. There was no nice little box to fit it…
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Is This Fiat 500 Abarth Awesome Or Awful?
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So I’m minding my own business, cruising down Woodward Avenue in the Detroit ‘burb of Royal Oak when I spot this nutty little machine. The station owner claims it as his own 1969 Fiat 500 Abarth which he’s done up with vinyls and aftermarket bits for street-side advertising purposes. I don’t really know how to…
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Last Call – Truth in Advertising Edition
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To be fair, they do have a point. [Source: Motor Models]
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Last Call – Built By Leprechauns Edition
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We bid cheerio! to British Week with a public service announcement. Support the Irish economy (circa 1981): buy a Delorean, built in Belfast with pride! And seeing as St. Patty’s Day should last all month week, it’s entirely appropriate that this bit of fond Irish nostalgia shall carry us into the weekend, one filled with…
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Bristol 412, the Rich Man's Firebird
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You know what’s cooler than owning a Bristol? Owning the entire company. – Justin Timberlake Ok, maybe JT didn’t actually say that. I can’t imagine him behind the wheel of a Bristol anyway, especially this fine 412 that comes rocketing straight out of the 70s with both T-Tops and a landau roof and styling by…
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Bristol: The Greatest Car Company You've Never Heard Of
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Bristol has always had one showroom, a modest building on Kensington High Street. Away from the bustling shopping of the rest of Kensington, namely Harrod’s, where its owners presumably frequent, the showroom lacks the sleek veneer of any Audi or Rolls-Royce dealership. Filing cabinets line the rear walls underneath dusty office glass. The wood panels…
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Streetwalker – Alfa Romeo Giulietta
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I spotted this little Alfa across from an Italian restaurant and around the corner of the German battleship, in the trendy district of Clerkenwell. I was there to stake out a car made entirely from Play-Doh, but to no success. Clerkenwell is a small area, and a bright-blue Play-Doh car is hard to miss, so…
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Streetwalker – Sink the Bismarck!
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When it was constructed, the Bismarck was the largest warship in the world. It displaced more than 50,000 tons and featured 72 total guns; its largest battery were a complement of eight 380mm guns on four turrets, which it used against British heavy cruisers with devastating effect.
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British By Proxy: The Cyclops Eye and the Crown Vics of Calcutta
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It’s no secret that British culture has embraced the trappings of their former colony India in a way that would make Mangal Pandey flip his lid. From curry, which is the sort of cheap Asian fare that’s to the British what Chinese all-you-can-eat buffets are to our MSG-laden posteriors, to the comical and ironic Indian…
