I grew up with the family car having always been a Ford. As a young teenager I was inspired by such Australian muscle cars as the GTHO and Coupe Falcons but when I encountered my first Mustang, an exotic car in the Australian 70’s I got my first hint there were bigger beasts out there. […]
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There we were strolling down Marshall Street, Edinburgh in search of Elephants when without wanting this object of desire pulled up beside us in traffic. I immediately dropped to my knees. Not in supplication but to get a better angle of this green machine from Britain’s most exotic (really the only) supercar manufacturer, McLaren. Perhaps […]
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Looking in through the back window of this Audi R8 I see a thing of German engineering beauty. The R8 Quattro’s V10 power plant puts it in a completely different league to the local V8 muscle. Why? Because sometimes 8 cylinders just isn’t enough to really satisfy. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Because Sometimes 8 Just Isn’t […]
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Take a close look at that speedometer and you can make a pretty good guess that this car goes really, really fast! Don’t just believe those numbers on the dial because they are there. The Audi logo on steering wheel and that intimidating R8 are really all the credentials needed. So how fast then? How […]
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