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Great Scott! A Legend!

To further celebrate Back to the Future day, here is a far longer version of an article I wrote for the NZ Herald’s DRIVEN section a few months ago. It is about a rather special car that lives in New Zealand and its remarkably tenacious owner! So do you want to go for a ride? […]

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Happy Back to the Future day!

Today is the 21st of October 2015 – or in other words, the day that Marty McFly comes to the future! Or, the now, if you prefer… While the classic 1989 sequel got a surprising amount right about what 2015 would be like, we still don’t have hover cars, hover boards or anything that hovers, […]

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The Automotive Industry and Technology

Here is a new video that poses some very interesting questions – will the car manufacturers become merely “contract manufacturers” building different shells that will be filled with technology from tech companies like Google? It is a question that the Financial Times asks in this short video, but don’t imagine that the manufacturers (who have spent […]

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An XCAR BLAST FROM THE PAST: The DeLorean DMC-12

The lads at XCAR have outdone themselves this time by not only getting their hands on a thoroughly gorgeous, original DeLorean DMC-12, but also by producing an utterly fantastic video with it that touches on the history of Johhny Z’s company, Colin Chapman’s involvement and the dodgy business practices that brought it all crashing down. Plus that whole drug […]

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