As glamorous and straightforward as this profession might seem to be, more often than not when I have to find words to describe a car I honestly don’t know what to say. Most of the time it’s difficult to find the words to use because I feel as though they’ve all been spent already, while [...]
It’s difficult to imagine life without the Internet, and while it may seem to be deteriorating society in some regards, I’d say on the whole it’s made the world a better place. Outside the fact that my job at Speedhunters revolves entirely around the web, there are often times when I find myself doing all [...]
Taking inspiration from the past is something that car manufacturers have been doing for years. Call it retro styling or tapping in to the bloodline of the brand, let’s just say some do it better than others. When it comes to Mercedes Benz and AMG however we can safely say that they have created nothing [...]
The F40 is a car that has over the last 25 years held its head high against the constant flow of supercars that countless manufacturers have released. It may no longer be the fastest or the most technologically advanced, but its simple formula of putting the driver at the center of its performance has cemented [...]
I consider myself a very realistic person; I keep my feet on the ground at all times and get on with the job at hand. I also consider myself a very lucky individual in that I am actually able to have a job that allows me to indulge in my unrelenting passion for cars. Since [...]
What exactly is soul? And what constitutes soullessness? A lot of people will contend that most new objects lack soul. Whether it’s a piece of architecture, furniture or a car, there’s a commonly held notion that new means souless and old means soulful. Case-in-point: I have several European friends who don’t like new houses or [...]
Being a child of the 1970s, I grew up on a healthy doses of science fiction with films and TV shows like Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Transformers, The Jetsons, Robotech and Blade Runner helping to form my geeky ideas about futurism. This was further imprinted into my adolescent mind by cyberpunk authors like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson and the explosion of Japanese Manga in the west by films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed. The Force was my religion, Electro my soundtrack and Pixels my artform.
I am not a “morning person.” In fact, I’m about as far from it as one can get. I can count on my hands how many things in this world I view worthwhile enough to get up before 10AM for, let alone 4:45AM. The opportunity to drive and photograph a limited edition track day Lamborghini [...]
It’s finally happened. I can tick another “to do” off my long list of things I need to get done before I die. For many people of my generation there is one exotic that is the embodiment of a supercar. Its posters have graced walls of car obsessed kids across the world, many have played [...]
One of the highlights of our recent trip down to Australia came out of total surprise. We heard that a certain Lexus supercar was kept at the same premises where Charles picked up the ISF press car we would sample during our time in Sydney, but it wasn’t quite sure if it would be possible [...]
There is no debating that pretty much anything that comes out of Maranello is a work of art. Sure there are faster and more performing cars available out there, even at a fraction of the price, but nothing quite has the appeal of a car that wears a shiny prancing horse on it’s rear end. [...]
Seeing the Z-tune at the recent Nismo Festival I got bombarded with memories from my first drive of the car back when it was unveiled. Since the Z-tune kit entered the scene back in 2005, engine development and additional technology has allowed tuners to continuously fine-tune the second generation of GT-Rs, but the Z-tune will [...]
Ferrari just announced thier replacement of the Ferrari F430, the all-new 458 Italia. Set to be launched next year, the new mid-engined Ferrari will sport a new 4.5 litre flat-plane crank V8 as usual, but this time with direct-injection delivering a whopping 562hp at an insane 9000rpm and 398lb-ft of torque, highest revving engine [...]
Costing close to double the price of the base GT-R the SpecV certainly needs to be a very special car to warrant all that extra money. With the promise of a more focused and tighter handling package, not to mention top of the line carbon brakes, there was only one thing to do, head to [...]
Monday morning, 10 am, I'm sitting in the foyer at the head-office of Audi Japan waiting to pick up my ride for the week. With this being Exotics and Luxury month I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get behind the wheel of something special, a car that defines the modern day exotic, [...]
