Blogs

A Heritage Honoured

As a car-mad 13-year-old back in 1986, being handed a copy of the Mercedes-Benz bookazine In Aller Welt was a huge deal. Not only did it provide incredible insight into the popular marque, it also ...

The Hoffman Prototype

Regardless of how well you know the world of motoring, the sheer diversity of passion of its devotees means the opportunity to be surprised by a car you never knew existed is seldom far off. Whethe...

Murray signs off first T.50

By Wayne Batty Judging by recent happenings, it’s safe to say the gestation period for a contemporary hypercar is nothing less than four years. Croatia’s Rimac, maker of the blisteringly quick bat...

A Model Photographer

By Wayne Batty How diorama builder Nico Ongena uses the illusion of scale to capture visual magic. Three years ago, Nico Ongena began a new hobby: taking photographs of relatively cheap 1/64 scale...

Porsche 917 meets 963 at Daytona

By Wayne Batty There’s even earlier history here, but the last time Porsche went top-tier endurance racing in both the North American IMSA series and the FIA’s WEC (née World Sportscar Championship...

A Bugatti for Christmas

By Wayne Batty At the tender and still impressionable age of 13, Philip Porter received, as a birthday gift from his parents, a veritable tome on Bugatti written by the great expert Hugh Conway. Po...

Bugatti Baby 2.0

When you are Ettore Bugatti and you need a birthday present for your son who is turning four years old, you don’t pop off to the department store for some die-cast trinket. No sir, you get your fac...

Rolls-Royce Twenty turns 100

Most car manufacturers with more than just a few decades of history behind them can point to a single vehicle that saved their bacon when times were hard. For Rolls-Royce, that car is the Twenty, t...

Maserati-engined Espace

For a brand so synonymous with sometimes quirky, often brilliant innovation, at least prior to its merging with Peugeot in the mid-70s anyway, it is quite unusual to come across an innovative and b...

Ten Reasons Why – Audi

Two World Wars, several mergers, two acquisitions and eleven decades of fierce competition; Audi appears to have thrived through it all. Wayne Batty offers ten reason why.