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It’s 20 years of Goodwood Festival of Speed goodness this year, and they are not messing about. Huge manufacturer stands – 4 storeys tall for Ford! – and plenty of new model unveilings, mixed up, of course, with all that is wild, rare and wonderful from the world of racing, tearing up the famous hillclimb […]
Just some of the goodness at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2013 Read Post »
Japfest 2 kicked off under glorious sunshine at the famous Donington Park on Sunday 7th July. Plenty of Japanese performance car enthusiasts rolled up in their thousands for a day of pure Jap action and to catch the finals of the SFS Power and Style Awards.
Day of action at the 2013 Japfest 2 Read Post »
With seven Le Mans endurance race wins under their belts, Jaguar has decided to shout about their success in serious style with this one-off, all-aluminium, 550bhp Project 7. Based on the recently launched F-Type coupe, the Project 7 is a homage to the Le Mans winning cars of old in some styling elements, but also
Jaguar celebrate motorsport success with the stunning Project 7 Read Post »
Setting off at around 6am Sunday morning, beating the traffic, and rolling onto the tarmac at Santa Pod for 7:30am, cars where already setting up in the “Show ‘n Shine” area and in the Club Stands. With the sun beaming down and the quality of cars rolling through the gates, Retro Show 2013 looked to
There’s not much on four wheels of a reasonable price tag that’ll stick with a sorted Caterham Seven on twisty back lanes or flat-out track. And now things just got really gnarly. A new, 310bhp supercharged Seven is now on sale, and with all that horsepower pulling not-all-that weight, it’s no surprise that the Caterham
Supercharged Caterham guns for king of the lightweights Read Post »
Technology and engineering has come a long way since the days of the unicycle and it seems something that was once more associated to a clown or a circus, has now become the base concept for the all new, innovative RYNO scooter. The scooter has been designed by RYNO Motors in Portland, USA and was
RYNO: ONE WHEELED SCOOTER Read Post »
The Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrates 20 years of motorshow goodness this year and it seems that many of the big-name manufacturers are getting right behind the festivities. But, there’s a little bit of one-upmanship going on too. Well, quite a lot, actually. And so far, as much as this reporter can tell, it’s looking
Renault to rock Goodwood with the coolest car of them all Read Post »
Mexico might not be the first place you think of when it comes to lightweight, mid-engined, 2-seater, £55k road and track cars. The new VUHL 05 indeed heralds from Mexico, but there’s a link to the Motor City of Detroit too, where the designers of the VUHL have an automotive design agency.
Mexico's new supercar – the VUHL 05 Read Post »
Well there’s one subject I keep regularly returning to over the months, and that’s electric transport. It’s clear that, in a world where The Gadget Show has enough to report on for an hour each week (imagine trying to do that only 15 or so years ago), technology is moving at a pretty blistering pace,
Lola Drayson electric car breaks world land speed record Read Post »
It might be just about the meatiest GT racer we’ve seen here at Motor-Vision, with its brutal wide-arch body kit, cutting and slashing aero extras and Jumbo-shaming rear wing, but this Bentley racer’s been dodging the ‘metal cakes’ and woofing the ‘carbon salad’ big time.
New Bentley Continental GT3 racer drops a tonne! Read Post »
Sebastian Loeb and his bespoke 875bhp Peugeot 208 T16 racer did not disappoint us on Sunday. The flying Frenchman smashed the 2012 Pikes Peak Unlimited course record by 92 seconds, clocking an entirely unbeatable time of just 8min 13.878sec for the 12.4-mile course which quickly climbs 5,000 feet and rips through 156 corners – some
Sebastian Loeb beats the Peak: the incredible onboard video Read Post »
The Japanese car scene engulfed Santa Pod on the weekend for Jap Show 2013 with plenty of Jap car lovers swamping the grounds and stands. Bringing the roads of Tokyo to the UK meant a fun fuelled day of everything Japanese, from Nissan Skylines to Toyota Supras.
The sun shines for Jap Show 2013 at Santa Pod Raceway Read Post »
The big dollar dream team of nine-times World Rally Champion, Sebastian Loeb, and the one-off 875bhp Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak Unlimited racecar got the gold at Pikes Peak on Sunday, with a new world record in the fastest class, smashing the previous best time by 92 seconds. And here’s the tarmac-terrorising video from Red
Seb Loeb smashes Pikes Peak hillclimb record! Read Post »
The hot new RXC gullwing-door’d Radical will be mixing it with the posh stuff at the upcoming Salon Prive supercar show in London, this September. Now in its eighth year for 2013, Salon Prive takes place over the 4th to 6th of September at West London’s Syon Park, and is said to be the UK’s
New gullwing Radical RXC at Salon Prive 2013, London Read Post »
The C-X75 concept car from 2010 was a hybrid of truly spacey-sounding technologies, including micro-jets to recharge its hybrid batteries. It looked incredible and had a sci-fi tech spec, but in reality it was unbuildable in its concept form. I mean, micro-jets! But now, as this video clearly shows, engineers from Jaguar and Williams F1
Space age Jaguar C-X75 supercar becomes a racetrack reality Read Post »
Behind the wheel of the more road-biased Range Rover Sport model, testing V6 turbodiesel and V8 supercharged petrol engines on road, runway, gravel and sticky mud. It’s lighter, faster and more efficient than ever. Priced from £51,550.
Test drive: All-new Range Rover Sport Read Post »
Nothing captures the romance of driving a classic camper van more than the split screen camper. Guaranteed to make grown men go soft and gooey and smile inanely, the splitty is the camper that we all want to own with it’s charismatic links to peace and love, music and the hippie movement of the swinging
The romance of the VW split screen camper van Read Post »
Another show at Santa Pod pulled the crowds in over the weekend with the National Drag Racing Championships featuring the MSA British Championship at Summer Nationals 2013. The Fireforce Jet Car was once again on top form stirring the audience up with its blisteringly noisy engine and a huge variety of race cars and bikes
Summer Nationals 2013 at Santa Pod Raceway Read Post »
This year the focus was channelled towards the 50th anniversary of the legendary Mini Cooper S as the Brands Hatch Mini Festival, in association with Mini Sport UK, kicked off over the weekend. Back with a bite, the legendary Brands Hatch circuit put on a great display and celebration of all things Mini. Classic Austin
A celebrity champion at this year’s Mini Festival 2013 Read Post »
Radical Sportscars are a British motorsport design and engineering success story that we should all be proud of. The UK has long been a hotbed of motorsport cottage industry with many Formula One teams based in good ol’ Blighty, and many other specialist automotive and motorsport manufacturers also. And makers of one of the very
Radical: the story behind the power and performance Read Post »
Every Mini under the sun – from the 1950s original to the present day models – will be at the Brands Hatch Mini Festival in association with Mini Sport, this weekend. So, if you’re a lover of these famously fanatastic cars and want to see them racing around Brands or on show-display in their hundreds,
Love Minis? Get down to Brands Hatch this weekend… Read Post »
The Radical SR8 is widely regarded as one of the very fastest pound-for-pound racers on the road and track today. Yes, that’s right, this all-aero, rip-roaring monster is road legal if you want it to be, but most of these slicing racers – including the more affordable but still incredibly quick SR3 – find their way
Video: Radical SR8 RX racer smashes Cholmondley sprint course record Read Post »
Fast scooters, cruiser scooters, modern scooters and classic scooters, mirrored masterpieces and rolling artworks; it was all there and made by either Lambretta or Vespa. Back with Mods 2013, at Santa Pod at the weekend, also saw plenty of bother boots and bomber jackets, crew cuts and crombie hats. A proper mod show with a
Back with Mods 2013, Santa Pod Read Post »
It used to be called the Dad’s Day Out, but the now-called Supercar Event, 2013, was a Top Gear test track-based treat for all members of the hundreds of families that attended over this weekend. There was even a little sunshine, a bit of celeb-spotting with Chris Evans, and a wonderful range of supercars lapping
The Supercar Event 2013 showcases a stunning range of supercar royalty Read Post »
