Writing a weekly column on cars to silence our automotive hunger in our Petrolhead Corner shines a light on numerous things. It leads to interesting stories like homologation specials, racing Le Mans unlicensed, world speed records, unique and historic cars and much more. Today we take another look at a continuation programme, in which manufacturers […]
Record are meant to be broken, but there comes a point when enough is enough. The race between car manufacturers to produce the fastest production car in the world is decades old and harks back to the dawn of the motorcar. Illustrious cars like the Jaguar XK120, Lamborghini Miura, Ferrari F40, McLaren F1 and, of […]
Returning readers of MONOCHROME might have picked up on a few hints and stories that have sparked, pun intended, this one. The EV revolution in the automotive industry. Where the average Joe is accustomed to seeing electric vehicles on the road by now, with vast numbers of Tesla’s whizzing around, there’s one segment that has […]
The automotive world is full of the most amazing stories on rare, or even one-off cars from yesteryear being lost for ages and finally recovered. Usually, this leads to a painstakingly complex and lengthy restoration before the car in question is toured around the world at prestigious events. One of the cars currently grabbing headlines […]
Here we are again, with Part Two of turbine power in cars in our weekly Petrolhead Corner. Our first instalment was dedicated to the early years of the technology and the first endeavours in racing. This second and final episode picks up where the last one left off and includes some more recent cars reinventing […]
A while ago I featured the Howmet TX in an episode of The Petrolhead Corner. The Howmet TX is a turbine-powered Le Mans prototype from the 1970s, which featured a gas turbine engine taken from a helicopter. A relatively simple-looking machine with quite a bit of strange technology underneath its swooping body, I knew this wasn’t […]
Urban exploring, it sounds like somewhat of a contradiction but with ever more abandoned rural areas or buildings as people migrate to different areas for various reasons, it sounds like a fascinating undertaking. A friend of mine once went to a Belgian ghost town called Doel, located near Antwerp, and the images were quite unsettling. […]
The trend of restomodding a classic car has resulted in some fairly amazing cars. It is a delicate process not to butcher the original car too much but improve on every little bit you can. Bigger and better engine, retouched bodywork, high-performance suspension and brakes, that kind of stuff. The latest in a long line […]
We often talk about the similarities between the watch industry and the automotive world. The parallels between the two are pretty obvious; precision engineering, technical development, craftsmanship, and in some cases preservation of heritage. There is one development that is quite cool in cars, but I wish never makes the jump to watches; converting classic […]
The inspiration for many great road cars often lies in racing, and at the same time, the greatest racing cars ever can be based upon rather mundane road cars. For decades, rules in racing have sometimes stipulated that a minimum number of road-legal variants had to be built in order to be eligible to compete […]