Images: Douglas Wood Peugeot is gearing up to build a hot version of its new 208 supermini (which you will have read about here). And it’s going to be a GTi. To save you the effort of concerted imagination, we’ve even knocked up our own version of how it may look… After some lean [...]
Cigarettes (so many cigarettes), flared trousers and Fords. So many Fords. Gritty, brilliant Seventies cop show The Sweeney was the antidote to all the Playboy PI shows so beloved by our boys and the inspiration for ‘The Interceptors’. In The Sweeney, the cops had much more humble transport – Ford Consuls, Cortinas and Granadas. And [...]
“There is no such thing as 100% bulletproof glass,” says the disclaimer at the start of this video. Clearly no one told Trent Kimbell, president of Texas Armoring Corporation, before he crouched down behind one of his own ‘bulletproof’ windscreens and encouraged one of his junior employees to shoot him. In the face. With an [...]
The path is well trodden: unknown British car manufacturer builds a lightweight track special with “Veyron-rivalling acceleration” and “race-car thrills”. Said lightweight turns out to be built in a garden shed from recovered girders and tin cans by a man with no welding skills. Or fingers. Not the BAC Mono. This single-seater, dreamt up by [...]
The only reason that you would buy a Rolls-Royce Ghost is because you can’t afford a Phantom. It’s the same story with the Porsche Coxster. Some say that this car tells the world your wife has left you. It doesn’t. What it says is: “I haven’t got enough disposable income to stretch to a 911.” [...]
As you may remember, when Jeremy and James went to Lincoln in electric vehicles they had spot of bother finding a charge point. No longer. Following the show, Nissan has leapt to the rescue of EV owners in the East Midlands and funded the installation of Lincoln’s first public charging point. And it’s been dedicated [...]
