It’s Erik Carlsson’s birthday – 84 years young on March 5! To celebrate from afar I thought I’d show this video I shot with Erik in January 2012. I had the good fortune to go to his home in England, share some lunch at the local pub and take in some stories and memorabilia back at the house. All that […]
I hate being Mr Negative-Pants, but some of the images I’m seeing at the start at the Geneva Motor Show are making me a little uneasy. I subscribe to the Richard Hammond theory that supercars are meant to be stupendous, they’re meant to be an event. But isn’t this going a little too far? This is the new Ferrari, which
The Geneva Motor Show has begun with a few early reveals, mostly courtesy of the VW-owned group of companies. Pictures of the new Lamborghini Veneno are already online from Lambo’s press presentation. The same hall shows an Audi RS6 Avant and the space-age Volkswagen XL1 eco-mobile as well (just say no). Right: The crystal meth at Lamborghini’s design studio has
Remember that Saab 9x that Saab fans got soooooooo excited about a decade+ ago only to have our hopes snuffed out by the realities of the automotive business? The Saab 9x had 4WD, a potent turbocharged engine, a wedgy SUV-style body (well before small SUV’s were seriously considered anything other than utilitarian) and a futuristic interior. We drooled over the
A funny thing happened on the way to March 2013 – the Australian car industry changed and it might just be a real, long term change. We’ve been living with a high dollar (compared to the US dollar) since 2009. I remember looking at my website revenues around that time with SU and seeing them falling because all the advertising
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So many times I’ve wandered the automotive internets, seen those Cars n Coffee gatherings and thought to myself “why can’t we have a casual car show here in Hobart?” It turns out we DO have such a gathering and it’s called Classics By The Beach, held on the first Sunday of every month. This morning I took the Alfa for
Spyker missed the Geneva Motor Show in 2012 due to upheaval caused by the Saab bankruptcy. Spyker chief Victor Muller was busy enough trying to keep the company afloat, let along preparing for a motor show. This year, Spyker are back. They’ve got something new to show, too – the Spyker B6 Venator concept car. Spyker have so far just
Volvo have just released the V40 with what is essentially an external pedestrian airbag. Who’d have thought that would come 20 years ago? The same could be said for most advances in automotive safety – engineers had dreams of doing things but didn’t have the tools to make them a reality. This infographic shows some of the advances in automotive
Koenigsegg has teased its 2013 Geneva Motor Show entry with a few photos and a press release. The Koenigsegg Hundra is an Agera that’s been custom built with 24-carat gold inlay, clear-coat carbonfibre, Koenigsegg’s own revolutionary carbonfibre wheels and a host of other goodies. The good news for me is that there’s some small, teeny-tiny chance of owning it one
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There are two schools of thought when it comes to drugs in sport. The main one is that athletes should be as natural as possible. They should compete to the best of their natural ability and in doing so, the nobility of sport is maintained. The lesser-followed school of thought is that athletes should just go for it. Show exactly
I hate not having a decent radio or good reception. When I bought my Subaru Brumby the antenna was already broken. It still works, sort of. I have to turn the radio up to full volume on the AM band to get something audible. Of course, if I drive the car amongst some buildings the signal drops away very quickly.
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