Car Culture

It all started in Paris more than fifty years ago. The Thunderbird has included classic two-seaters, cherished roadsters, convertibles and four-door models, as well as exciting hardtops and sedans, more than 4 million of them. It featured the &quo...

Skoda has been in the process of rebuilding its museum for the last nine months and plans to finally open the new complex on November 26. It has not released any actual pictures of the new building yet, but it has created these cute images using t...

The Fiat 500 first came on sale in 1957, when economic vehicles were on high demand. It embodied the spirit of the day and many other car companies rushed to follow the example by producing tiny city cars. When Fiat stopped building the 500 in 197...

The new James Bond film Skyfall opens today if you live in the UK and large portions of Europe. If you're from South America, you have to wait another week, and the US and Canada have to wait two weeks until November 9; so do not let...

For its 20th anniversary, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating itself. This year's festival will look back on the great cars and events of the last 20 years and invite fan favorites back.  Festival organizers are not giving a...

On the basis that I have lived in England all my life this one should be easy shouldn’t it? But, as usual there are any numbers of options, whether it is the Jaguar E-Type – which epitomized beauty, elegance and a slightly fictional to...

Micro cars, bubble cars, city cars, compact cars ... there are many words to describe simply tiny cars. Some of these cars are so small, one normal sized person barely fits in. Most small cars have rather strange shapes, they come along as bu...

What can I pick for Japan? Like all the major car producing countries there are numerous choices. Maybe Honda’s NSX? No, that’s too niche. Or one of Honda’s V-Tech powered models? No, that would miss the point. I’m picking ...

So often Porsche has been challenged and so often the challengers have failed to deliver against Stuttgart’s finest. Maserati has had a go with the 3200, but they blew up a lot and the chassis wasn’t all that good either. Then ther...

This week is one for those of you who want a little bit of class in your life and some nice soft touch plastics to make you feel like a grown-up. The budget is a little higher than that of the Ford Focus and Ka but it’s still amazing what yo...