The Motor Muse
After more than two decades and two successive generations, Mercedes-Benz has put the “Leicht” back into the SL-class’s “Sport Leicht”. Gone is the cumbersome folding hard top that made the German carmaker’s flagship roadster more land yacht than a roadster. In its place, the good old traditional soft top makes its comeback. An arrangement not seen on […]
The turn of the millennium was a time of wide-eyed optimism. Not only did we survived the great “extinction event” that was Y2K, but the future was unfurling before our eyes. Wireless global communication was connecting the world, a new human space habitat lifted our eyes to the heavens, and you could carry 1000 songs […]
We are three-quarters into 2020 and it is only now that this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans gets underway. It was originally scheduled for June but postponed when the cough heard around the world started getting around. Speaking of things that didn’t go according to plan, let’s wind the clock to 1999 and examine […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Ignore the title for a moment and just savour Mercedes-Benz’s new CLS in all its glory. It looks absolutely stunning, and it should be. The four-door coupe is the only 21st-century niche that has enthusiasts getting all excited over, and even if it ended up as a botched nose job on an E-Class, it would […]