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Musings on the Motoring World

What classic car should be restomodded next?

At last, someone has said the phrase me and probably half a dozen blokes dosed up in 1970s rally nostalgia has been waiting for, “Make Lancia Great Again”. Strangely it didn’t come from Lancia, operator of the world’s saddest website. Instead, it came from a 32-year old Italian entrepreneur and avid car collector Eugenio Amos […]

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Musings on the Past

Remembering Porsche’s mid-engine origins

You can not call yourself a petrolhead if you are completely oblivious of the celebrations going on in Stuttgart this past weekend, or indeed this year. For those in the dark or have had their cognitive abilities hampered by excessive petrol fume inhalation, last weekend was the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Porsche ‘brand’ as […]

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The car that made and broke a brand – The Schrödinger’s Car

A good product makes a company, a bad one sinks it quicker than the Lusitania. That is as fundamental to the rule of business as you can get. An exception to this fundamental is but a zero division equation. It is impossible. There cannot possibly be a product that is so delectably good that it […]

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And the Greatest Era of Motoring is…

…any era you fancy. Yes, that is right. Any particular era you think gave the world your favourite cars can be called “The greatest era of motoring”. It could be the swinging 60’s whose optimism gave us the pony cars, or the 80’s excesses that could only have birthed the Group B craze. Even our […]

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Has the Classic Car Market Spoiled Classic Motoring?

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, […]