No matter how many times I attend the Mooneyes Street Car Nationals, I never quite get over the visual impact the event creates on the streets of Tokyo’s Odaiba neighborhood. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t into customs or hot rods, the sight that these cars collectively create is simply breathtaking. Throw in an ever-expanding [...]
Darkness fell at the Nürburgring – and so did the rain. Rain so hard that even this race – the toughest of the tough – had to be called to a temporary halt because of the absolutely appalling conditions. Driving on the Nordschleife in the dry is hard enough, but with a track better described [...]
We’re eight hours into the ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hours and the rain is relentlessly lashing down. The race has been stopped for almost two hours now, neutralised under red flag conditions. The cars have been parked up in the pit-lane, whilst the crews go into hibernation awaiting announcement of a possible restart. The conditions [...]
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Porsche has been continuing with final development of its new 918 Spyder and today the company released some new photographs of the car, along with some more detailed info on its specification. Among the details shared in the press release, Porsche has emphasized the relationship between the Spyder program the feedback from the company’s 24 [...]
Events like the Donington Historic Festival are like attending a year’s worth of the best racing events imaginable in one weekend, crossed with a time warp. That means the most exciting racing cars from across the last century, all in one place, all for you. One minute you can be watching priceless Ferrari and Aston [...]
I’ve got a problem. A real issue. When I’m at car meet, event, show or race, I basically want to buy at least three different cars. Some days more than five. I live out these wild car buying and building fantasies as I walk around. Sometimes – ok maybe a lot of the time – [...]
Today Porsche took the wraps off its highly anticipated new 911 Turbo models. It’s an announcement that Porsche fans have been anxiously waiting for since the debut of the new 991 platform nearly two years ago. Based on the specs of the new 911 Turbo, the car seems to be worth the wait. It’s a [...]
I’m in love. I’ve seen this car on the internet many times. In my eyes it’s a thing of beauty. This is a car with a soul. The Volkswagen Karmann Ghia has the chassis and mechanicals of the Type 1 Beetle. This car is the coupe version from the early ’60s. Convertible versions were also [...]
Following on from Paddy’s post, The Road to Wörthersee, I bring you The Wörthersee Shell Eni Station (and some other stuff, too). On the face of it, things would seem like we, and many other people as well, sacrifice copious amounts of sleep and drive nearly 1,000 miles to go and hang out at a petrol [...]
It has been sixty hours since I left home and thirty three hours since I last slept. I’m now over a thousand miles away and a week early for a show that I won’t see because I’ll leave before it even starts. Why? Because Wörthersee of course. Like the journey itself, the planning for this [...]
To kick off our supercar mini theme, let’s go back to the origins of the genre and the decade where the first generation of supercars emerged: the 1970s. It might be the period that time wants to forget in terms of fashion, but it’s the place to go for the exotics that set the scene [...]
This isn’t a story about a business and the fruits of their labour. Rather it’s the culmination of one man’s work and passion. Although in its relative infancy as a registered business, Milestone71 and head man Richie Payne, started to build its foundations many, many years ago. Watching his father repair cars in the family-owned [...]
Knowing I wouldn’t have the necessary time to slowly and carefully flick through its pages, I put the new issue of MotorHead on the corner of my desk late last week after it showed up in my post box. MotorHead is the kind of magazine you put time aside for, as you know every beautifully [...]
Next week, we’re going to be dedicating a couple of days to what is, for most of us anyway, the unobtainable. For the majority, we can only dream of supercar and exotic ownership, and the closest we may get is through the experiences of others. This is where you and every other Speedhunter come into [...]
The recent launch of Porsche’s 991 GT3 has set pulses racing the world over. However, there was a slight sting in the tail of this announcement: this would be the first GT3 not offered with a traditional manual gearbox. Porsche has been quick to calm potential customers’ fears saying that the new PDK (Porsche Doppel-Kupplung) [...]
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