The Motor Muse
I’m not a fan of touchscreen infotainment systems in cars. Let’s get that out of the way first. I even made a whole rant about it as a guest writer on Wapcar.my. Furthermore, I suspect that I might not be the only one with this opinion. Many are wising up to the difficulty of using […]
Nothing gets performance junkies excited over nothing than releasing a “motorsports concept”. Producing a motorsports concept is merely a “beer keg solution”. It is there for audiences to get its beer goggles on in hopes that its mundane product will be met with less apathy. Cynical writers such as yours truly are doubtful of its […]
The roll-out of final Bentley Mulsanne from Bentley’s Crewe factory recently represents more than just the end of a model. It also brings more than sixty years of Bentley’s shared history with Rolls-Royce to a close. A history that made the two names almost indistinguishable and inseparable. Badge atop engineering It isn’t just the technology […]
The world is a complicated place. Often times too complicated for our primate brains, which is why we like to use buzzwords. Snappy words like ‘big data’, ‘clickbait’, and ‘disruptor’, serve to simplify big concepts. Though it is sometimes used to romanticise seemingly simple definitions, like the word ‘supercar’. Like many buzzwords, ‘supercar’ is easy […]
There will be no doubt that those nostalgic for the days when petrol was cheaper than milk and emissions was something that happens unexpectedly while you are asleep, will be ecstatic to hear headlines of oil prices plunging into negative territory. Come May, with the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures falling 321 […]
With countries around the world enacting measures to curb the spread of coronavirus and the populace shutting themselves in for a long drawn out isolation, major events that were scheduled for 2020 have already been dropped or postponed indefinitely. The gears running the world has literally grinded to a halt and now everyone is grounded. […]
Of all the debuts that were to get its time in the spotlight at the aborted 2020 Geneva Motor Show, the Czinger 21C promised to be one of the most interesting newcomers to the ultra-exclusive club of exotic performance cars. The reveal of the 21C’s tandem seating, 1:1 power-to-weight ratio, sub-2sec 0-100km/h claim, and 2.88-litre […]
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”. It is one of those philosophical questions for the idle disappear up their own arse asking, so don’t think too much about it. Marketing execs at the Suzuki Motor Corporation, on the other hand, might […]
Did you know that famed BMW tuner Hartge is no more? Don’t worry if you didn’t, not many are aware. In fact, the only mention of its demise is a short uncited entry in its Wikipedia page, a Facebook announcement from a Chinese importer, and this, a one-off Mercedes-Benz W124 fitted with a bored-out engine […]
It doesn’t bode well for a top drawer performance car like the BMW i8 to have a lengthy press release written about its imminent demise. In a world swamped by online tribute articles to any little morsel of historical significance, it must be galling for BMW’s communications department to remind the public of the i8’s […]