Episode 197 includes interviews from the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Maserati Trident logo. The event was held at Maserati Sydney in Waterloo in Sydney on a chilly July night and celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Trident logo, created by Mario, one of the Maserati brothers - an artist rather than an engineer. In 1926 the Tipo 26 was the first Maserati to … [Read more...]
Fittipaldi EF7
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 De Macross Epique GT1
Motoring Weekly recently published an article about the MCV CH4, a Canadian supercar that sadly never made to full production. I’ve found another car that has been described variously as the first or only Canadian supercar: the de Macross GT1. This car was developed in the late 2000s - not a great time to be launching a bespoke, limited run supercar considering that the world … [Read more...]
The Rotating Story – Camel Milk to Power a Car
This is one story that I shouldn’t find fascinating based on today’s voracious appetite for “news” sourced through social media but I do. It is a story that keeps reappearing. Back in 2011, a “company" in the United Arab Emirates announced that they were going to develop a supercar called the Dhabyan and it was going to be powered by camel milk! The story goes like this: … [Read more...]
Rezvani Beast
In days of old when a car company wanted to give their cars a feel of performance or agility, they would name it after an animal, think Jaguar or Panther. Sometimes they woud use an animal as a branding design (Ferrari or Lamborghini) or name their cars after fast animals: Cobra, Mustang, Gazelle or Lynx. Then came the competition, a Mangusta (Mongoose) was the enemy of the … [Read more...]