The Motor Muse
The Japanese bubble-era of 1986 to 1991 was one of the great defining moments in automotive history. It was the era that inflated the Japanese economy with so much spending power that the Japanese car companies threw caution to the wind and carried out some truly stunning engineering feats. Feats like the original Lexus LS, […]
Nothing meek ever made history. If you want a mention, you got to go grand. And when it is the subject of automotive history, there will never be an era quite as glorious, or as excessive, as the German uber-saloons of the mid-noughties. It was a time when BMW stuck a racy V10 into the […]
Whether it is the colourful retrofuturism of the Jetsons or the dystopian nihilism of Blade Runner, there is one common element shared between both fictional works – aside from robots with biological sex characteristics – and that is flying cars. Ever since we figured out heavier-than-air flight, science-fiction writers and futurists have always imagined a […]