The car enthusiast's guide to cool stuff.
When it comes to in scale automotive obscurities, no one quite plays on the level of German model manufacturer AutoCult. One of their latest offerings continues the trend, with the relatively unknown 1965 Mercedes-Benz mid-engine sportscar concept dubbed SL-X. Why was it so unknown? Simple. It never made it past the mockup stage. If it…
There’s a certain type that tends to define themselves car enthusiasts. They sweat details of a car, from its factory configuration, to components such as wheels, tires, steering wheel or seats. If you fit the bill, then the name Recaro shouldn’t be alien to you. Maybe you’ve got a car fitted with them from the…
With the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans just around the corner, it’s probably no surprise that driving shoe manufacturer Piloti is announcing their latest tie-in. The Italian shoemaker has today released a range of shoes featuring their patented roll control heel, in both casual tennis shoe style and also more formal leather design. Piloti…
The motorsport world lost an icon in March when news of John Surtees passing made its way the world round. Now, just months later, watch manufacturer Omologato has launched a special edition chronograph paying tribute to the racing great. Worth noting, this isn’t just some opportunistic special edition looking to profit off of Surtees return…
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s first victory at the legendary Monaco Grand Prix. To pay tribute to that historic performance, TAG Heuer has revealed its 2017 Edition Senna variants including the brand’s Carrera Heuer-01 chronograph and Formula1 chronograph at a special inauguration event at the new TAG Heuer boutique in Monaco and attended…
If you’ve painstakingly built one, you likely cringe at the thought. If you don’t have one, you’ve likely secretly imagined this happening to the one built by your smug friends who posted it to Facebook seemingly just to fuel your jealousy. Whichever, we suspect just about anyone who’s considered Lego’s 2,700 piece 1:8 scale Porsche 911 GT3…
It’s probably no real reach to associate a long-running endurance motor race in the French countryside with art. Motorsport events often included wonderfully illustrated promotional posters and, certainly in Le Mans, the tradition continues year after year with a handsome event poster. Expanding upon that is a challenge by race organizers to artists. Now in…
OttoMobile’s never been short on nostalgic scale models from the ’80s, ’90s and double oughts, particularly from the Audi brand. Even still, they’ve never done a B5 RS 4 to date, and to our knowledge no one’s ever done Audi’s arch-flared Avant in anything larger than 1:43rd scale (looking at you Minichamps). It is definitely…
The democratization of the internet on artist and niche manufacturer production has always been something of a fascination. Starkly against the trend of mass merchandising, someone with a great idea or product often finds a highly accepting market when they share their work… and that’s particularly so on platforms such as Kickstarter where someone with an…
It’s not exactly been a secret that OttoMobile is working on adding a 1:18 scale BMW M3 model to their lineup this month, but we’ll forgive you for not knowing unless you’re super in tune with the model car manufacturing world. Fortunately for those of us more casually watching, the OttoMobile has reminded us with…
We’re constantly fascinated by the corners of the automotive purist world that Omologato hat tips with their tribute watches. Porsche is a frequently fixated-upon marque for the watch-making firm and in this case, it’s their Weissach test facility specifically. Given the played down subtlety of a given development test vehicle that might be snapped by…
We’ll admit it. We’re fascinated by Slot Mods livery series of tracks. Foregoing scale model acres of trees, buildings and scenery (not to mention tens of thousands of dollars of construction time), these custom tracks price in at roughly the cost of a billiards table. Even better, they pay tribute to some beloved racing liveries…
