Jeremy Clarkson: The Man Who Taught Me to Tell It A mechanic learns to love cars with his hands. Mine were black with grease before I could spell properly. My father put them there. He didn’t sit me down and explain torque curves or combustion cycles. He just handed me a wrench in his workshop … Read more
The first journalist to drive it was also the last Bill Thomas didn’t know he was making history. Nobody at Bentwaters Park on August 19th, 2008 thought they were making history. They thought they were making a magazine feature. Top Gear had arranged a photo shoot with Mazda’s Furai concept at the former RAF airbase … Read more
Ken Block: the man who invented a genre and gave it away January 2, 2023. Mill Hollow, Wasatch County, Utah. A snowmobile flips backward on a steep slope and lands on top of the man riding it. He’s alone at that moment. By the time search and rescue reach him, there’s nothing to be done. … Read more
Banned in 1978. Champion in 2022. The Fan Car Nobody Saw Coming. Under 1,000 kg. 1,000 horsepower. And a system that sucks the car to the tarmac before the motor knows it’s moving. This is what happens when a Concorde engineer forgets that something has been banned for 44 years. On 11 April 2025, a … Read more
