The car enthusiast's guide to cool stuff.
Let’s face it, today’s product placement of vehicles in movies and TV has nothing on the vintage era before brands paid big bucks to feature their latest offerings in factory fresh form. In the old days, producers procured a car and often modified the hell out of it in order to add to the adventure. Such…
Like the series it was developed for, consider the Porsche 959 to be the perfect storm. A homologation special… designed for Gruppe B… a Porsche. The car was a legend from the moment anyone knew what the hell it was, and it remains so today for good reason. If you subscribe to that legend, you’re…
Italian resin model manufacturer Looksmart has revealed details of its latest 1:12 scale offering, and it’s a beauty to behold. For just its second effort in this larger scale, the firm has decided to focus on the limited production Lamborghini Centenario. Built as a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Lamborghini founder Feruccio Lamborghini’s birth, and…
GT Spirit has teased their latest scale model RWB 911 and it’s one of our favorites. The white Hoonigan 964 is one of the first high-visibility RWB builds constructed for a U.S. customer, and its debut as such at SEMA made it a bit of an icon. The car in question belongs to Ken Block’s…
With his latest book Escapes Winter, premier German auto journalist and author Stefan Bogner begins to turn his first highly successful Escapes book of great European drives through some of the world’s most spectacular passes, and begins to convert the concept to a series with this more than cool sequel. With this book, Bogner returns to regions…
»IDENTITY«. The central theme of TECHART’s 2017 wall calendar is one of the renowned key values of genuine TECHART individualization programs: the unsurpassed diversity of options for unlimited personalization. 12 pieces of photographic artwork show a selection of the latest TECHART programs. The limited wall calendar can now be ordered. In the history of TECHART…
Technically, there’s probably an app for that, but apps don’t smell like leather or have a certain weight when shared or handed over to a car’s new owner. That’s what the folks at De Bowers are banking on in their creation of this new automotive history file. We probably all have that file folder somewhere, whether we’ve…
Genesis, the freshly launched premium brand from Hyundai, has launched a new smart phone app in the push for efficiency and convenience for its owners. Developed for both Apple Watch and Android Wear integration, the Korean brand expects the new app to be a key foundation in its Genesis Connected Services. Dubbed Genesis Intelligent Assistant,…
To say the BMW E30 platform is a revered enthusiast platform is even probably a bit of an understatement. E30’s of all types see pricing going up at a rapid rate, while the much vaunted M3 (much less Sport Evolution variants) command the most nosebleed levels. In as much, not everyone can afford an E30 M3 any…
Given its title of “Motor City” and home town status to the big three American car manufacturers, it’s not so surprising that there are an army of car enthusiasts in Detroit, or that those enthusiasts would have an institution such as Pasteiner’s Auto Zone Hobbies to cater to their passion. In town for this year’s…
The Hublot Unico manufacture movement is equipped with a new patented proprietary module which enables the second time zone to be updated instantly by a push-button, allowing the local time to be read easily via the conventional main hand of the watch. The time at home is indicated using a second arrow-shaped hour hand, which…
A longtime timepiece partner to Bentley Motors, Breitling has introduced their latest Crewe-inspired time piece to help celebrate the launch of the Continental Supersports. In this case, this limited edition watch is based on the firm’s app-connected B55 model. Whereas previously the B55 was more aeronautically themed, this latest Supersports B55 is geared toward racing, including…
