It’s right back at Daikoku PA now for a final look at the other day’s supercar gathering. During the few hours that I was there I literally never stopped walking around, because as cars left, more kept coming in. By around lunch time the lot was so full that a many were forced to park [...]
It’s not often that I go to Daikoku PA during daytime, but a couple of days ago I made an exception. I’d heard that a lot of supercars and various car clubs would be holding a meeting across a series of parking areas, starting off at Tsuzuki in Yokohama and eventually ending up at the [...]
It’s been exactly two years since Motor Head began circulation in Japan. In these 24 months this publication has brought an unparalleled level of quality to print media and has managed to stay fresh and innovative in what can only be described as the hardest time print has ever endured. Issue number six, which has [...]
Art is one of the most diverse words in all of the English language, and it’s certainly one of my favorites. If you ask a dozen people what they consider art, you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. That’s the beautiful thing about art, it’s completely subjective. Many have said that cars cannot be art, [...]
The supercar displays at the FIA GT races always provide a mouth-watering array of cars to gawp at even before you make it to the race paddock: they’re a great way to remind you that the DNA of what you see on the track invariably has a road car origin – and that the racecars [...]
There's a full house of GT racing on the schedule here at Silverstone, with GT1, GT3, GT4 and Lamborgini Super Trofeo all out in force. The track itself might have stayed the same after last year's modifications, but now the new pits complex is finished and has moved to the far end of the track, [...]
Tucked between the two big Reiter race trailers in the Brno GT1 paddock was this yellow devil: the special edition Reiter Murcielago Strada, German race team Reiter Engineering have taken their experience from the decade or so they've been developing GT1 and GT3 Lamborghini racing weapons and applied it to the road, providing a shopping [...]
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof [...]
After getting a tip I logged onto the website of Heffner Performance. I didn't need to look hard before I got confronted with this Lamborghini Murcielago. But there was something different about this particular car. Yes your eyes aren't playing tricks with you, this V12 is being aided by not one but two turbo's. They [...]
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Lamborghini just sent over their first photographs of the limited edition Murciélago LP 650-4 Roadster. It comes fitted with an uprated 6.5 litre V12 engine that produces 650 hp along with permanent four-wheel drive: hence the model’s LP 650-4 moniker. With 660 Nm of torque, the 0-100km/h run is reached in a scant in 3.4 [...]
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Press day at the Geneva Motor Show does not start until Tuesday, but some cool new cars are being announced ahead of this. The new Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 Super Veloce (we will call it SV from here on in!) is one such car. The ‘SV’ is faster, lighter and more powerful than the standard LP640 with [...]
