After taking a look at the colorful mix of big and small cars that were hard to ignore at this years idlers Games in Tsukuba, I’m going to continue things with a second Spotlight-O-Rama, starting off with the Outer Plus with Ti Lotus Exige S. Yes yes I know, I have promised I will visit [...]
Hi everyone! My name is Nathan Leach-Proffer and I am a 27-year-old freelance photographer who often shoots under the alias Speed-Photos. After picking up my first camera in the early 2000s, and shooting freelance on the side for eight years, my photography journey really just began two months ago when I resigned from my advertising [...]
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be in a band. Not so much for the curiosity of knowing what it would be like to be skilled at playing an instrument and definitely not for the fame, but more for the touring aspect. Travelling from place to place, performing in front of a [...]
Brooklands, 1907. Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1909. Autodromo Nazionale Monza, 1922. The three original and most famous of oval racing circuits, crucibles of the new craze for motorsport from the dawn of the automobile. But there were two more major ovals built in Europe soon after: the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in 1924, and the year before [...]
There’s probably nothing more underestimated in a car’s development and performance than actual aerodynamics. What was born as nothing more than a black art has slowly and very successfully turned into an ever-evolving technology that has the potential to improve pretty much every single aspect’s of a car’s capabilities, not to mention make the difference [...]
Classic 911s seem to be on a tuning high pitch at the moment, with the likes of Singer Vehicle Design in the States and Rauh-Welt in Japan merging old school looks with more modern ’90s chassis and bringing the appreciation of ’70s and ’80s 911s to a new generation. There’s no doubt that these teams [...]
Quattro. Even the way it leaves your mouth is purposeful, as though you become that guy on the advert and everything is suddenly a voiceover. It’s not so much of a word or a description, as a statement of intent. I showed you around the rest of the Audi Museum in Ingolstadt in this post, [...]
Prior to our recent Wörthersee adventure to Austria I made some bold promises. It was Paddy’s first trip to the legendary gathering of tuned Volkswagen Group cars and I’d ensured him of sunshine, speedboat taxis and ice cold beer. I may have even mentioned dancing girls. Unusually, though, the skies darkened and Lake Wörth was [...]
It’s a dangerous combination. You have a successful performance tuning business focused on VWs but you also love racing. Going racing can be a great way to promote the business, but it can also be a quick way to turn a large pile of money into a very small one. There’s a devil on your [...]
I believe that car design directly charts the shifting tides and styles of humanity itself. So would you agree that as they become more and more complex, so do our lives? Is it so bad that I crave cars from a time gone by? Or is it a good thing that I recognise what kind [...]
As we roll through our little Volkswagen Group celebration here on Speedhunters, it was only fitting that we take a look back at one of the most iconic and influential automobiles that Volkswagen has produced: the Golf GTI. For seven generations and close to four decades now the GTI has been delivering affordable thrills to [...]
So, how about that composition theme, huh? It seems with every #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER post, the quality is continuously rising. This is all credit to you of course, as you’re all pushing yourselves to be better Speedhunters. We know it’s not easy, but we always appreciate your hard work. Thank you. Last week we put out a call [...]
What do you think of when you think of Audi? A manufacturer of quality? Precision German engineering? Or perhaps a brand that manages to marry both function and form in its vehicles? As the latter, the Audi Forum provides a perfect showcase. Just take a look at the shot above. Not only are the vehicles [...]
We love our drive features here at Speedhunters. They’re at the core of what we stand for, combining our passion for cars, photography and driving in one fell swoop. So it’s probably understandable why I was edging on sensory overload the other day, as I found myself behind the wheel of one of Nakai’s latest [...]
We thought what better way to kick off our mini VAG theme this month than with a brief tour through some of the group’s history. And with that as a focus, then surely there’s no more appropriate starting point than the world of air-cooled Volkswagens. In this day and age where you have manufacturers with [...]
