Allan Dick is about to become a Skoda owner . . . Skoda is a brand that’s struggled to overcome a dim, dark period in its history when Czechoslovakia was in the grips of Communist rule and the cars that were produced were low-tech to the point of being primitive and were the butt of […]
Category: Classic
These are two quite famous and historic motor racing shots that show how misleading still photographs can be. The first was taken in the first British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1948. On lap 23 Geoffrey Ansell driving this prewar ERA B-Type lost control, went into a wild slide, the tyres dug in and the […]
It this age of sterility, it’s difficult to imagine the sense of anticipation there used to be leading up to the first race meeting of each season. Were all of the between-season rumours true? Had Scott Jacobsen really imported a new Shelby Mustang, how was Johnny Black going to go? He was the kid who […]
I saw an Australian Morris Major yesterday. I also saw a Morris Major Elite! Two Morris Majors in the one day and in the same place. It’s easy to be cynical about BMC in this period as the company had tentatively pushed the self-destruct button, putting in place a slow-moving chain of events that would […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Mitsubishi Starion It is arguably the car that started the avalanche of RWD Japanese GTs in the 1980s and remains one of the more enigmatic today. The Mitsubishi Starion may have a funny name, but it has passed into the realms of desirable classic remarkably easily. We take one for a blast! […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Toyota Corolla Levin (AE86) It is the car that virtually invented the sport of drifting in Japan and now its modern successor has just be launched in New Zealand. We take the AE86 from Toyota HQ in Palmerston North to the race track at Taupo for a Top Secret Top Gear NZ […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW M3 E30 Legendary, Iconic, Freakin’ Awesome – all of these phrases and more have been applied to BMW’s M cars over the years, and rightfully so too. But as awesome as all the M cars are, none are more legendary or iconic than the original E30 M3. We are lucky enough […]
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