The Motor Muse
Land Rover has given the world just what it has been pining for, a fully-factory restored and re-engineered Defender with a 405PS 5-litre Jaguar V8 underneath its bonnet. 0-100km/h is done in just over 5.6sec and top speed is a stunning 170km/h (not bad for a barn) making it the fastest Defender ever. You can […]
If racing is to live up to that tenant of “Win on a Sunday, Sell on a Monday”, then in the second decade of the 21st Century we should be having a track racing series dedicated to SUVs. A grid full of rip-snorting V8 pushing a scrum of bespoke winged monsters is as relevant to […]
Welcome to 2018. Welcome to the New Year and celebrate the heck out of it because it is a brand new year. New is good. New is always better. It just is. Better features, better technology, better everything. That old iPhone? It’s scrap! Last year’s clothes? To the op-shop! Everything today ages like a month-old […]
2017 has been a lot of things to many people, most of which were just hysteria over an orange businessman being promoted to the most powerful office in the world. The same can be said about the closure of Holden’s Elizabeth plant and Toyota’s Altona factory in Australia, which brings 69 years of Australian car […]
If there is one thing that makes the automotive business more endearing than one that sells toothpaste is that it is full of colourful personalities whose passion and work shines through the success – or failure – of any one car they were responsible for. However, in a business made of enthusiasts, very rarely would […]
Now there is a general rule when it comes to writing articles pertaining to supercars that one should usually leave out the nitty-gritty details of maintenance. After all, why waste your breath trying to get all worked up on the inner workings of a car whose customer base would willfully ignore and shove some money […]
It’s that time of year again when titles around the world begin their cavalcade of awards for all the good little cars – and some rotten ones – of this year. There is no shortage of awards out there to be handed out as brands themselves lap as many laurels up to add every bit […]
As a species, we are pretty good at doing science things. We have split the atom, unlocked the genome, and even landed on a comet. Any school student will tell you that science experiments are the only fun they can have in school that doesn’t involve being Big Bob’s b-tch in PE. On the other […]
Nothing gets the internet more heated up than the arrival of a new – *ahem – hypercar. What’s more, if it is from that purveyor of excellence, McLaren. Possibly spurred by the P1’s failure to become the big cajones at the Nürburgring, the Woking-based manufacturer is back with what they tout as the ultimate track-ready […]
For reasons I can’t explain, I have always had this dream of living an idyllic life in a small cottage that is perched atop a cliff overlooking the open sea. The residents around these parts are sparse, as are the clouds in the sky all year round. The nearby township is quite some distance away, […]