After much uncertainty brought about by the fuel crisis, the Toyota Gazoo Racing Philippine Cup is back. There is now a renewed push for biofuels; the Vios and Tamaraw race cars are running on fuel formulated with special blends of coconut oil and traditional gasoline and diesel. At the press conference in the midst of the…
Well, would you look at that: Ferrari has brought back the manual gearbox. With two large caveats, of course. First, there’s a faintly staggering leap in price for the Ferrari 12Cilindri supercar involved. Second, is the fact that it’s actually an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission that’s supplemented by a clutch pedal (with 599 GTB weight) and a…
Ruf Automobile has built an engine with eight cylinders and much horsepower. It’s called the ‘Boxer-Eight’—or B8 for short—and it has been slotted into a modified RUF prototype ahead of a demonstration run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Fitting, because this B8 churns out more than 1,000hp and 1,000Nm torque and—oh, what’s that, the whole ‘boxer-eight’…
This is the HSR Manufaktur Type 859. It is a new car, obviously. A new car built to honor a really rather old one that must have slipped right through the net when it came to documenting automotive history, because…Audi Sport Quattro SWB, anyone? We jest, of course. That 1984 classic—a stone-cold, AWD, rally scalp-claiming…
If someone told you a have-a-go inventor called Wallis had printed out a world-beating car in his garage at the end of a sleepy Rugby cul-de-sac, you’d tell them to lay off the cheese at night. But alongside the great British land speed record holders, you can now add Wallis. Stephen Wallis. Designer, builder, and driver of…
