The Village Land Rover
Land Rovers are more than utility vehicles. Series 1 classics are interwoven with the communities they have served. They are work horses, but cherished with genuine emotion. Barry Clark dragged this 1955 Series 1 out of a field near his house 15 years ago. “It had a tree growing up through the middle of it,” […]
Fistful: Cosworth rarities
It’s sixty two years now since Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth launched Cosworth Engineering in a greasy corner of London. Since then the engineering firm has provided the connective tissue of some of the world’s finest and most winning sports cars the world has ever known – and has collaborated with a wealth of mainstream […]
My Cosworth story: ‘It’s not everyone’s idea of a supercar – but for me it’s a super car’
Turbo lag. It’s not seen as something to aspire to. Look around you. McMindfulness meatheads smash their screens between Zoom calls and online pilates sessions. Anti-vax perps with cabin fever, who get their news from Call of Duty twitch feeds, cop i3s and hunting bows with their bounce back loans. The projected 2030 ban on […]
Invalid Trikes
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the sight and sound of the powder blue invalid tricycles that were once a common sight on our roads and at our football stadia. But do you know the story behind them? No? Well, in that case, read on… Invalid trikes have been around for a very […]
Remembering Jim Clark
Take the speed of Senna, the wet weather prowess of Schumacher, the smoothness and mechanical sympathy of Prost, the versatility and enthusiasm of Andretti and the humility of a country boy and you’ve got the recipe for the greatest racing driver of the 1960s; indeed, perhaps the greatest racing driver ever. That driver was Jim […]
Vauxhall Cavalier
We called it Charles the First because it was a Cavalier. These days it’s the sort of vehicular relic you see slumped in the corner of a field at a provincial car boot sale, boot open to reveal old tools or dodgy Star Wars figurines, but the Cavalier was once a corporate thruster’s dream. It […]
22 Years of the Elise – twice as good or just twice the price?
Evolution or revolution? A question that car makers have often wrestled with and most tend to sit on one side of the fence or the other. Companies like Porsche, Caterham and Morgan have chosen to refine the breed rather than constantly reinvent themselves. Then we have Lotus. A company that brought us ground effect, the […]
Alvis Lives On
Are you sick and tired of SUVs here there and everywhere? Do many of today’s cars with their ‘samey’ looks leave you cold? Are you a lover of seriously ‘old-school’ motors? You know, the kind of characterful vehicles that were almost as individual as people? If you are, and you have some cash to splash, […]
July Calendar Car – Lotus
Throughout July, lucky owners of a 2019 Influx Calendar enjoyed this incredibly rare Series 1 Elise 190, with a carbon-fibre body. The car was arranged by Elisa Artioli herself, as she came over to the UK to help us with the calendar shoot as well as enjoy a trip down memory Lane at the nearby […]
Vauxhall Viva Estate
Way back in 1987, the very apex of exhibitionist, greed-is-good, me first Capitalism I bought a car. It should have been a Golf or Peugeot 205 GTi or even a BMW 3 Series shouldn’t it? It was actually a tatty 1975 Vauxhall Viva estate. The car was dull sand yellow on the outside, with sickly […]