01 The Boreham Ford Escort Mk1 RS was revealed in final production form at the London Concours this week. By the time most people read about it, every single one of the 150 examples had already been accounted for. If this feels unfair, consider that the car is priced from £295,000 before options, or £354,000 in the UK once VAT is applied, and that even at that price there was more demand than supply.
02 That photograph is not a sculpture or a demonstration. It is what is left of a Chevrolet Corvette C8 after a Thursday afternoon on a California road. The driver walked away from it. Barely, but he did.
03 Every time you buy a used car in Britain, you are trusting a database. The vehicle's history, its previous keepers, its accident record, whether it was ever declared a total loss, whether it was stolen and recovered all of it sits in records held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea. Those records are as reliable as the people who maintain them.
04 I turned it off halfway through. I am not proud of that, but I am not going to pretend otherwise either.
05 The secret military origins behind Lotus, Jaguar, and Austin-Healey reveal how fighter pilots became racing legends.
06 Jiro Yamada turned technical drawings into masterpieces that revealed the hidden poetry of pistons and gearboxes.
The Boreham Ford Escort Mk1 RS was revealed in final production form at the London Concours this week. By the time most people read about it, every single one of the 150 examples had already been accounted for. If this feels unfair, consider that the car is priced from £295,000 before options, or £354,000 in the UK once VAT is applied, and that even at that price there was more demand than supply.
01 The Boreham Ford Escort Mk1 RS was revealed in final production form at the London Concours this week. By the time most people read about it, every single one of the 150 examples had already been accounted for. If this feels unfair, consider that the car is priced from £295,000 before options, or £354,000 in the UK once VAT is applied, and that even at that price there was more demand than supply.
02 That photograph is not a sculpture or a demonstration. It is what is left of a Chevrolet Corvette C8 after a Thursday afternoon on a California road. The driver walked away from it. Barely, but he did.
03 Every time you buy a used car in Britain, you are trusting a database. The vehicle's history, its previous keepers, its accident record, whether it was ever declared a total loss, whether it was stolen and recovered all of it sits in records held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea. Those records are as reliable as the people who maintain them.
04 I turned it off halfway through. I am not proud of that, but I am not going to pretend otherwise either.
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