The Motor Muse
How fast is the Bugatti Chiron? That has been a question Bugatti has been artfully dodging for years. This wasn’t because Bugatti couldn’t outdo Ferdinand Piech’s tour de force, the Veyron. Rather it was because Michelin was yet to deliver a tyre capable of satisfying the OHS gods. Nothing strikes fear into German engineering than […]
Formula One is many things. It is entertainment, it is the pinnacle of motorsports, it is a rich man’s past time, or it can be all of that. But is it a sport? Critics often lambast the riches the stratosphere of F1 drivers are being showered with, wondering how hard can it be to drive […]
What does the Brabham BT62, Lotus Evija, and Pininfarina Battista have in common? Nothing, if you can tell them apart. Line all three side-by-side and any casual observer will likely mistake them as the work of the same carmaker, or even mere variants of the same model. More compelling is the fact that all three, […]
It is peculiar that in today’s marketing-saturated world where every big-name product is celebrated with the sort of adoration previously reserved for royalty, that Jaguar chose to shuffle the XJ out to pasture last month without so much of a whimper. It is almost as though the big old cat was spirited away to a […]
Sunset. To our knowledge, it is nothing more than particles of light being broken and scattered as it travels through the earth’s atmosphere. To our eyes, it results in a magnificent flourish of colours that seemingly breathes life into the clockwork certainty of existence. By our own experience, it serves as an epilogue to the […]
There is certainly an air of smugness hanging over Porsche’s headquarters when Ferrari unveiled a new plug-in hybrid range-topper known as the SF90 Stradale. At its heart lies a 574kW twin-turbo V8 – an evolution of that used in the F8 Tributo – which is aided by a trio of electric motors, two being attached […]
Just a few days after publishing a short conjecture on whether supercars are still relevant, in reference to BMW M Division’s insistence on not building a supercar, BMW teased an upcoming supercar concept known as the Vision M Next. Fast forward a few weeks to the present and the covers are lifted off the unexpected […]
We might be shy of a year from a brand new decade, but it is still debatable whether BMW has ended their niche carving ways of the 2000s. Sure the 3 Gran Turismo and MINI Paceman are dead, but then again we have the diminutive X2 coupe SUV, so don’t hold off that invention just […]
Hang around car circles long enough and you would have heard Clarkson’s famous “you can’t be a petrolhead until you have owned an Alfa” quip. That being the case, if a heart for Alfas will inject a little octane into your veins, then a curiosity for Citroëns would be administering a dose of octane for […]
In the rush to fix our planet before we collectively get steamed to perfection in the planetary sized boiler of our own doing, politicians have been cranking up the rhetoric while policymakers have been busting their heads on coming up with a realistic solution idealist and realist can agree on, especially when it comes to […]