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Something old…

Yesterday we posted our coverage of the magnificent new Bentley Flying Spur, which we rather liked. Today we head back in time a wee bit to (almost) the beginnings of Bentley. The Flying Spur launch was held at Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell and, as they only had two Flying Spurs available for road drives, […]

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Classic Random Stuff!

The coolest Volvo ever!

Here is a great article on Jalopnik.com about one of three Volvo 960 wagons packing supercharged Ford V8s that the legendary Paul Newman had built – one for him, one for a family friend and one for talk show host David Letterman. LETTERMAN: I say to Paul, “Now wait a minute. Paul, I have a […]

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Motorsport News

A tree-crushing rally truck…

The GIF is awesome enough, but check out the on-board video of this Soviet-era GAZ truck competing in the Rally of Estonia! Note at about the 1.45 mark he drives off the road, but instead of crashing into the trees, simply drives over them. That is the way to rally…

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Blast From The Past: Subaru SVX

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Subaru SVX It’s always quite interesting when established car makers go out on a branch and try to penetrate niche market segments. So when a popular Japanese manufacturer with a rally history unveiled a prototype luxury sporting GT at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, more than a few eyebrows were raised. The […]

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Motorsport News

McLaren 50 – Courage

The first of three specially commissioned short films goes live today, depicting the McLaren brand in a way never seen before as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Instead of focusing on the high-tech, high-octane world of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team, or even the Group’s new Automotive division and its groundbreaking 12C […]

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NZ Festival of Motor Racing

There are stories to come, but in the meantime here are pictures of all the action from the second weekend of the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing Celebrating Denny Hulme. Enjoy! Feel free to download any of them for use as wallpaper. For any other purposes, feel free to use them too, but just […]

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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Chevrolet Impala

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Chevrolet Impala I wonder just how many times I have seen the Chevrolet Impala in Hip Hop and Rap music videos. They are usually painted in a nice shade of psychedelic purple, or maybe lime green with gold rims, and the compulsory hydraulic suspension, for when these “Playas” want to raise the […]

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