If you watch this your face will go weird. And you’ll probably make an involuntary noise. This is quite insane… This is some in-car footage from Team Chapman Racing’s number 66 Mazda MX-5 competing in Class E of Australia’s Island Magic Enduro 2011 race. While it’s chasing down a Porsche Boxster, Barton Mawer – driving [...]
Last week, the hat Hammond wore while filming our Christmas special in India went for £2,000. We were fairly staggered that TG.com member “Cat” paid that much, but hey, it’s all for charity. But today, the stakes have definitely been raised in the stuff-for-sale-that-belongs-to-someone-associated-with-cars-and-the-proceeds-are-going-to-charity. Yes, you can own the very shirt that Eddie Jordan wore [...]
It looks like Saab is safe. It’s to be sold to two Chinese companies, car distribution company Pang Da and manufacturer Youngman. But it will continue designing, engineering and building cars in Sweden, with Chinese manufacture coming on stream later. And so concludes (or should conclude, subject to approval by various banks and regulators) an [...]
So, the VW Up. It’s amazing really that it’s taken VW so long to have a proper stab at the city car market. OK, so it had the Lupo a decade or so back, but the Fox that replaced it was very much an afterthought. The Up isn’t. This is VW, a serious car company, [...]
The racing went on, but in a moving moment on Sunday Moto GP riders paid their respects to Marco Simoncelli before the final round of the World Championship. Simoncelli’s Number 58 bike, ridden by former world champ Kevin Schwantz, led a procession around the Valencia circuit alongside competitors from all three categories of the championship. [...]
Yes, we’re back with ANOTHER iteration of our head-scratching guessing game. If you haven’t played before here are the rules – it’s a lot easier than Sudoku, so don’t worry. Rule 1. Look at the picture of a car that is currently in our top-secret underground car park. Rule 2: Tell us what it is. [...]
