The car enthusiast's guide to cool stuff.
Given the iconic shape of Porsche automotive design throughout the years, it’s not surprise that artists choose to focus on these very familiar forms. This is the second startup focusing on the P-car shape featured in as many months, this time with parallel planes of material that recreate the overall body shapes of models such…
What we’re learning in covering the model car beat is that the industry is rich. The sheer quantity and selection of new model cars hitting the market in any given week is exceedingly impressive. Rather than try to focus simply on a single new offering (as we did yesterday with the GT Spirit scale model…
There’s no doubt that the Jaguar E-type is one of the most iconic sportscars in history, nor that performance specials such as this 1963 Lightweight command the most special of placement in the lexicon of automotive and racing history. A new book from Porter Press International aims to give focus to that, specifically covering this…
We’re getting closer and closer to the debut of the new McLaren documentary, a movie that takes a closer look at the biography of the legendary Bruce McLaren. As the run-up to the debut approaches, an official trailer has been released. Watch it below. [PRESS RELEASE] GUNPOWDER & SKY UNVEILS UNVEILS U.S. TRAILER FOR McLAREN…
Always one to tease us on Facebook, GT Spirit has again captivated our hearts with their latest post. It seems that a new arrival out this summer is a 1:18 scale take on a very iconic tuned Porsche – the Ruf CTR Yellow Bird. Those familiar can tell you that Ruf is far from a…
Aston Martin has returned from the ’24 Seconds of Le Ally Pally” and does so victoriously. It seems the team and its V8 Vantage GTE soapbox racer have logged a 2nd place podium finish at the 2017 soapbox race sponsored by Red Bull. The team started the day strong, netting 28 out of 40 points…
There’s no doubt that Forza Motorsport 7 is a favorite amongst driving sim gamers, and certainly it is well on the radar of car enthusiasts… well before they pulled out the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS as a surprise reveal at their E3 presentation weeks ago. We’ll admit, we’re rabid Forza fans, so we’re watching news…
Flawlessly clean isn’t exactly how we think of rally cars. The compact hot hatches of WRC by far look better with their battle earned grime and mud than they do polished up as they might be on an auto show stand. That’s also apparently the though of SandlundArt, who’s gone ahead and recreated the post…
The Audi brand’s penchant for both scale model cars and also for beautiful graphic calendars continues to exhibit itself in the brand’s Miniaturkalender. Several months ago we published photos from their intriguing making-of view behind the scenes of the piece, on up through February. Now, they’re sharing more from March to July. There’s no doubt…
Hot off their victory at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, Aston Martin Racing is tackling their next extreme racing challenge by entering Sunday’s Red Bull Soapbox race at Alexandra Palace in London. Said to be the ’24 Seconds of Le Ally Pally”, the team is set to bring the heat with a slightly…
Renault’s latest product offering shows the team French F1 team has not only spanned 40 years since its beginning, but that it has maintained a fair degree of humor in that expanse of time. Behold, a yellow teapot designed to celebrate the original “yellow teapot”. It’s said that in 1977 when Renault launched their first…
One of our favorite sightings at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed seems to have set everything in reverse. Where normally scale model builders are quick to create small versions of famous cars, a class featured at Goodwood this year did the opposite by featuring real life cars built to show classic Tamiya R/C kits…
