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The new Ferrari FF: Really Ferrari? Really!?
Not a pretty sight is it? Head on over to evo for all the details if you must but we’ll be right here staring at this photo. Oh sure, the spec is impressive - it’s the company’s most versatile four-seater ever with best in class cabin space and boot capacity; it has four wheel drive and 651bhp [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 21 January 2011
Finally! New Lancia Stratos trumps the old
We really don’t have time to do this post and its subject justice. Honestly. On the run between meetings and lunch at a devastatingly good Italian restaurant (vongole and Tuscan white wine await…), we have mere minutes to share with you the storming success that is the New Stratos. Clearly, the cognescenti will know immediately [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 20 January 2011
Car gallery vs. garage? Ralph Lauren shows how it’s done
It’s always entertained us to no end just how much men love to collect. Anything. And the older we get, the more expensive our little hobbies become: watches, cars, art, property, businesses, partners (and children), Russian hookers…uh, well, you catch our drift. We apparently are rarely, if ever, satisfied with the concept of less is [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 17 January 2011
Lithe and light, the Lotus Exige Cup 260 skims over Zolder
“To add speed, add lightness.” With our foot straight down on the loud pedal inside a jet black Lotus Exige Cup 260 attacking Belgium’s Zolder race track, the words of the great Sir Colin Chapman who founded Lotus aren’t just ringing in our ears; no, they’re quite literally climbing up our backside and into the [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 28 September 2010
The definitive modern American muscle car: Cadillac CTS-V
You can’t help but look, can you? Over-sized, bulging muscles, ripped to the core and just as hard, we should be talking about body-builders. Instead, we’re pointing your eyeballs at the Cadillac CTS-V – a car we won’t hesitate to label the ultimate modern US muscle car. And it’s a sedan. There’s so much history [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 27 August 2010
Hair suits and horsepower: The overlooked Corvette Z06
It was a moment you don’t ever forget: during the Great American Run of 2007, your editors were in New Mexico in a trusty Audi A4 3.2 litre Quattro convertible, flat-out at a limited 125 mph in hot pursuit of a Saleen Mustang and a Corvette Z06; both of them black as the night and [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 16 July 2010
You never feel completely safe in a Porsche 911
Have you ever been hunting with dogs? Ever watched the nose of a well-bred hound as it darts around furiously in the air, desperate to pick up the scent? Then, seconds later it gets it; the nose is down and the dog is off like a bullet? That, ladies and gentlemen, is what it’s like [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 14 June 2010
Juvenile? Us? Yes, you could say that: Porsche 911 Carrera S, 70-100mph
A few weeks ago, the good folk at Nokia lent us a Porsche 911 for seven glorious days as part of their #NokiaNav promotion. Their purpose? To have us test their latest in-car navigation equipment. Ours? To push the 911 to within an inch of its life and really get to grips with what is, [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 5 June 2010
Ferrari’s prancing horse mounts Germany’s green crone…and scores!
Be afraid, very afraid, when yet another car manufacturer/tuner attempts to lower the lap time record for production cars at Germany’s hellish Nordschleife race track. Ferrari recently decided to take on what is often just called the Nurburgring (or Ring) with its 599XX, a stripped-out, fire-spitting version of one of our all-time favourite Ferraris. You [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 18 May 2010
Welcome to #NokiaNav week in a Porsche 911 Carrera S
OK look, if you’d like, we could pretend that it was just another week here at Prodigal Towers. But guess what? It’s not and we won’t! Yesterday the good folks at Nokia delivered a….a….a….Porsche 911 to our door and handed us the keys. Excited? Oh yeah you could say that! But wait, we almost forgot: [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 10 May 2010
