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Musings on the Motoring World

Jaguar sets a lap record at a forgotten circuit; should we care?

Ever since Renault set a Nürburgring lap record for a front-wheel drive car with the Megane RS Trophy back in 2011, car manufacturers have started punting their products around in hopes of bagging some that sweet Nürburgring prestige for themselves. Since then there have been titles for the fastest four-door car, fastest estate, fastest electric […]

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Musings on the Past

How nostalgia revived and killed the VW Beetle, but not the MINI

If you want to get an idea of just how universally recognisable the Volkswagen Beetle is, pull up a game of Pictionary. Tea-drinkers may argue that your rendition of a Willys GP is a Defender, while only catastrophic bores among us can tell the silhouette of the Miura – the original supercar – apart from […]

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Musings on the Motoring World

The fool’s gold of autonomous technology

Late last year a New York-based beverage producer managed to raise its stock price by an incredible 500%. How did it do it? Did they hatch an evil plan to control the world’s supply of sugar? Do they have Coke’s secret to peddle liquified cocaine? No, what they did was an even greater stroke of […]

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Musings on the Motoring World

Are we overhyping Gordon Murray?

If there is one thing about spouting automotive opinion in the Anglo world is that you don’t throw shade on the British parade. Even if you are a mullet-wearing republican puritan cowboy, you’d be wise to show some tact and at least extol the off-road prowess of a Land Rover and the handling superiority of […]

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Musings on the Motoring World

How the manual transmission died

Recently, lamentations were heard coming from motoring enthusiast sites in The States over Audi USA’s decision to drop the last manual option from their line-up. At this point should we be surprised that a brand that once gifted the world the R8’s open shifter is devoid of manuals or should we be more surprised that […]

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Musings on the Motoring World

What classic car should be restomodded next?

At last, someone has said the phrase me and probably half a dozen blokes dosed up in 1970s rally nostalgia has been waiting for, “Make Lancia Great Again”. Strangely it didn’t come from Lancia, operator of the world’s saddest website. Instead, it came from a 32-year old Italian entrepreneur and avid car collector Eugenio Amos […]

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Unlucky No.8

In a rapidly fragmenting car market that is occupied by a handful of big players who have each pledged to launch a new model at an exhausting rate of one almost every month, it won’t be surprising if there will be a few that will fall through the cracks of our collective consciousness. That said, […]