A few years ago Emerson Fittipaldi launched a new car: the Fittipaldi EF7. This wasn’t a one off as he had been building road and race cars for a while, including the Fittipaldi F1 cars. What happened to the EF7? There was a fanfare and launch in London and then ….?? The car was a supercar designed by Pininfarina in Italy and constructed by HWA, the racing company formed by … [Read more...]
The Lagonda All-Terrain Concept
The world’s automotive manufacturers are still in love with the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) despite the fact that the majority of them will either never be used as a utility vehicle or cannot be referenced as a sports model! Over the last decade, we have seen the market grow from a handful of models from Range Rover, Porsche and Lincoln to pretty much every luxury manufacturer … [Read more...]
The Avatar Roadster
Fancy buying a sports car company? If you have some spare cash and are concerned that giving it to a tech startup might not be the best idea at this time - just look at the rapid devaluation of Lyft and Uber, then buy Avatar, a niche British sports car company. Avatar is currently owned by the Marlin Sports Car Company who have become one of the last independent sports car … [Read more...]
The Tesla Shooting Brake
This is a story that has been told many times in the last century and probably was the foundation of many manufacturers like Jaguar, Pininfarina and others. The story starts, like many others, with a car buyer lamenting that the car is 90% perfect however they would like it to be changed. In decades past, this would have been the domain of Park Ward, Vignale, Touring, Mulliner … [Read more...]
The Rivian R1T
Here in Australia we are in election mode and the two main parties are going at it hammer and tongs about the usual topics: health, education, taxes etc. This week the opposition Labor Party announced a new policy with regards to climate change and environmental issues: they will mandate that 50% of all new cars sold by 2030 must be electric powered. The current Government … [Read more...]
