The Motor Muse
I hate to use the term “at long last” when describing the launch of an eagerly anticipated model. What’s the rush? You’d think that it’s better to let creators take their time perfecting the end product? However, the unveiling of the Nissan Z Proto concept car certainly deserves that descriptor, even though it has been […]
There is an often-quoted curse that goes something like this: “May you live in interesting times”. That sounds encouraging, but it is not. The implication being that “interesting times” are often tumultuous and filled with uncertainty. If your business is the automotive one, we are certainly living through such times as nobody is certain where […]
What you are looking at is a new chapter in one of the most illustrious names in automotive history. Or so its makers would like us to believe. An all-new, carbon-fibre supercar armed with a Maserati-developed 463kW mid-engine twin-turbo V6, the Maserati MC20 is what its makers hope will bury its posh and plush past […]
Pardon the “click-bait” title, and don’t be alarmed. Your Tesla isn’t planning to mow down schoolchildren and Elon Musk won’t be CEO of Space anytime soon. Don’t listen to that type of hysterical fearmongering. The most harm your Tesla can do is redefine the meaning of a “drive-in movie” with a semi-truck. From a health […]
Ever since Luca Cordero di Montezemolo ascended to the throne of Ferrari SpA in 1991, there has never been a boring Ferrari. A true Italian blue-blood, Montezemolo had the golden touch to turn Ferrari from a builder shoddy exotics into a purveyor of God’s chariots on earth. Nearly every model since the F355 has been […]
Whether it was started to stand apart from its peers or just out of sheer rebellion against the zeitgeist, the BMW ActiveHybrid series was one of the more interesting, if less celebrated, experiments BMW ever conducted. Yet, it is one that many might not even remember it even existed. Can’t blame them for that though, […]
You don’t need sales figures to know that Infiniti has seen better days. Not only has its European operations got axed, but it also survives on a skeletal model range. It is fast becoming a company that is more well-known for its concepts than actual production models. Not to mention the management dramas that has […]
The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but you know what? It is all going to be okay, for in the year of Our Lord 2020 a true successor to the McLaren F1 is upon us. And who better to deliver unto us a proper successor than the man who designed the […]
You don’t need an economics degree to know that the more you have of something, the less meaningful it becomes. For a name that appeared just five times in 14 years, Mercedes-AMG’s Black Series still stirs the masses. Then again it is easy to get emotional over anything blessed by Mercedes’ horsepower merchants at AMG. […]
My parents used to say, “You don’t get second chances in an exam”. That much is true, you don’t get to go back and correct your work. However, if you work for a car company, second chances are plenty, it is usually called a voluntary recall. Though you will never see recalls for rectifying aesthetics […]