VW Scirocco: the handsome brother who went first to take the bullets for the Golf This year everyone celebrated the Volkswagen Golf’s fiftieth birthday. Fair enough: it’s one of the most important cars ever built, the one that saved Volkswagen, the one that invented a whole class. But there’s something almost nobody mentions while the … Read more
Golf Cabriolet Mk1: Seven Let’s get one thing straight before we start: I’m about to spoil the ending of Se7en. If you haven’t seen it, close this, go watch it, come back. I’ll wait. You’ve had since 1995. Still here? Good. Here’s what makes that film a masterpiece instead of a cheap shocker. John Doe … Read more
BMW 3.0 CSL Batmobile: The Car BMW Sold You With the Wing Dismantled in the Boot There’s a photograph that circulates in BMW collector circles of a German customer in 1974 taking delivery of his brand-new 3.0 CSL. He opens the boot. Inside, lying neatly across the carpet, are three pieces of black-painted aluminium — … Read more
