The SV is not a subtle car. As soon as it appears, childish you starts jabbering and capering about in your head: ‘Look! It’s got a massive wing! And look, the exhaust is a lozenge-shaped cave… And it’s so BIG, and WIDE and NOISY and orange’. You are reduced to a state of pure gawp.
The problem with hanging out with maniacs is that they can make you look like you lack spontaneity. OK, so they might be spitting nonsense, smoking crack and trying to rip the faces off passers-by, but at least they aren’t dull.
This looks most excellent. A 621bhp Conti that weighs quite a lot less than the slightly lardy straight version – 110kg lighter. No back seats, harder suspension – it’s like the good old days.
Hopefully this little item is true. Take one inventor and create solar-powered bike. It’ll apparently manage 50 miles on a full charge and top 90mph. Ok, so it ain’t pretty and he lives in Arizona (lots of sunshine – it might not be so good in Dulwich), but it appears to be working. Would you [...]
Some bloomin’ brilliant dicing here between two heavy hitters – but is that Porsche actually holding up our American friend, but just a little too fast to pass easily?
So the car has been out roughly 35 seconds and already Brabus have a pretty stacked upgrade package for the car. You can have full (albeit subtle) body mods, any interior you want as well as the usual engine upgrades. Ok, so they know about the engines and how to ramp them up – but [...]
Michael McDowell’s big off from last year. You may have seen this footage before – but it really is amazing that he walks away from this one: 180-ish mph into a concrete wall, followed by several massive bumps on the head. Nascar – they might not know how to turn in both directions, but they’re [...]
I’ve never seen an MX-5 do THAT before. Well, I have, but not quite that easily. Or with that much smoke.
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