A Prelude To A Spa Weekend
I think I was about 13 years old when I accompanied my Dad to a local rally. It wasn’t our first time standing in the ditches, watching the cars blitz past as it was something I can remember doing...
View ArticleThe Cla45 Amg Goes Racing
We are still around a week away from the opening of the Frankfurt Motor Show, and already the debuts are starting to pop up. In addition to the Audi Sport Quattro Concept we saw earlier today,...
View ArticleStreet Life At The Singapore F1 Grand Prix
There is always something more special when it’s my home Grand Prix of Singapore, more so because it’s a temporary street circuit in a small city hosting the only night race in Formula One. Once again...
View ArticleBlack Knight, Silver Arrow
I was recently listening to a history podcast about current society in relation to our grandparents and great-grandparents. It was about toughness. Resilience. Not in the ‘who’s stronger, fitter,...
View ArticleThe Latest From LA & Tokyo
This has been a huge week for the automotive industry with both the Los Angeles Auto Show and the Tokyo Motor Show happening simultaneously. With so many new and interesting vehicles being unveiled on...
View ArticleWhere The Street Cars Run Free
There is no question that spending a childhood around cars has had a massive effect on my career path. If it weren’t for those countless hours playing with Hot Wheels on the carpet, drawing cars on...
View ArticleOne Hot V8: The New Mercedes-AMG GT
A little red roadster might have been making all the new car headlines last week, but this week it’s all about Mercedes-AMG and its stunning new sportscar. Designed by a team led by Daimler AG’s Vice...
View ArticleAn AMG With The JDM Touch
Is it just me, or are Mercedes-Benz doing all sorts of great things these days? Take a look at their line up and you’ll quickly see that they cater to every single type of car out there – from...
View ArticleThe Greatest Wagons Of All Time
It’s Wagon Week! As we spend the next few days celebrating the glory of the station wagon, I figured it would only be right to take a look at some of the greatest factory wagons and estates ever built....
View ArticleHammer Of Gods: The HMS H63 RS700
Let’s kick off with some numbers: 750 horsepower and well over 900 newton metres of torque. These are the sort of figures that’d feel much more at home in a two-seater supercar, but what happens when...
View ArticleOMG… AMG? No, Much Better
Mercedes-Benz as a brand leaves me feeling conflicted; its vehicles either seem to be safe and restrained middle management shuttles, or ridiculously tempting and tuned to mentalist level weapons. I...
View ArticleThe Italian Dream
This isn’t the first time I’ve driven a Huayra. A few years ago the guys from Pagani entrusted me with one of their development cars on the Autodromo di Modena, and told me to not come back until I was...
View ArticleGetting Loose In the Pagani Huayra BC
So how do I even approach this? The Pagani Huayra is so much more than just a hypercar, and now its Italian maker has come up with a faster and more track-focused iteration called the BC. My mind was...
View ArticleYouZealand Body: Custom Car Craft In Saitama
If you cast your minds back to last month, you might remember the spotlight on a track-tuned Mercedes-Benz SL500 that I happened across while at Fuji Speedway for R34 Day. What I failed to mention in...
View ArticleF1 For The Road: The New Hypercar Benchmark?
Despite the model’s final exterior form having only been teased with a couple of dimly-lit images, there’s a lot we already know about this two-seater, four-wheel drive, carbon fiber bodied machine –...
View ArticleMercedes-AMG Project ONE Breaks Cover
We took a quick look at Project ONE last week as it was teased ahead of this week’s IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, but now that the covers have come off we can finally see what the...
View ArticleProject F80: The 190mph HEX-Tuned M3
As a long-time reader of Speedhunters, and rather sporadic contributor to this site I love very much, it feels surreal to be typing up my very first SH Garage project story to share with you. Before...
View ArticleWekfest Japan’s Euro Mash-Up
What would coverage from one of Japan’s most important stance-related shows be without a round-up of all the European cars that were scattered across the Port Messe exhibition hall in Nagoya? Given the...
View ArticleA Winged Past Reinterpretation
Start from the past and look to the future and you have a restomod. Start from the future and look to the past and you have a reinterpretation. That’s possibly the best way to describe John Sarkisyan’s...
View ArticleHammering Out The Truth: Crooks & Castles’ 560 SEL AMG
Being a car person makes you do some really weird things. Not weird on an intimate I-married-my-car VICE vibe – that raises some deeper, ethical issues – but rather the involuntary reaction certain...
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