Nineteenth century composer Richard Wagner drives a Ferrari 288 GTO! Who knew? Thanks to the mysterious Tax the Rich gang we now have the video to prove it.
[Thanks to Richard for the tip]
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Chris Harris was offered an impromptu drive of a McLaren MP4-12C GT3 and, for our benefit, of course, he cancelled his plans and took to the track. He discovered the brakes are first class, but the car’s front-end didn’t talk to him like he thought it might. A connection to the MP4-12C road car? Not so much.
Watch the video after the break to see if he enjoyed himself.
Bad Obesession Motorsport is back with Episode 2 of its Project Binky experiment, where the aim is to fit a Celica GT4 drivetrain into the shell of an Austin Mini.
Actually this episode was first published a few weeks ago and we just remembered to check on progress. And the good news is that means we’re already much closer to the next update.
If you need to catch up we recommend you go back and watch Episode 1, where the team ends with the revelation that the Mini’s front-end doesn’t fit around the Celica’s engine. Who’d a thunk it! So, in this episode you’ll get to see how project leader, Nik Blackhurst, goes about getting his own way.
These guys deserve a much wider audience, so we reckon it would be a good thing for you to spread the word.
Here’s the latest Ken Block Gymkhana video. Now in its sixth iteration Block returns with all the tyre smoking frivolities you expect from the master of spin. The stunts aren’t necessarily new, although there’s few new techniques, but this is just good, honest, rubber burning fun.
Enjoy!
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VIDEO: Crazy Cart Ken Block Gymkhana parody
In anticipation of Gymkhana Six here’s a very well made Ken Block parody starring none other than Ken Box in his Crazy Cart.
“There’s nothing the world needs less, and there’s nothing I want more. Because it’s the best car of its type I’ve ever driven!”
Yes, it’s safe to say Chris Harris—who is now clearly back in Ferrari’s good books—loves the F12 berlinetta.
Oh, a big pat on the back for regular cameraman Neil Carey, too, this is some of his best work for Drive. Well done all, it’s a great video.
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Styling v Design: What’s the difference?
We’d never heard of the Autoline Network before stumbling across this post on Autoblog, but we were intrigued by the promise of a discussion on styling versus design. Are they one and the same, or two completely different things?
Jim Hall fronts a segment called Design Handbook and he has a crack at defining the two terms for us. Perhaps this is being too harsh, but if you’re going to discuss the differences between style and design wouldn’t it be a nice idea if you had a bit of the former and your outlet practiced the latter?
Similarly, towards the end of the clip Hall uses a couple of modern day cars to help explain his point. We were left wondering, are they the best examples he could come up with? While his first example perfectly described his point, the latter, not so much. Not to us at least.
Anyway, watch the video and let us know what you think.
In a nciely choreographed piece of timing Mario Muth is back with another in-depth interview, this time it’s F1 royalty with Murray Walker the man in front of the camera. Yesterday, of course, was Murray’s 90th birthday.
The interview goes for almost an hour, at this stage we’re only half way through and already Murray has touched on how he got started in commentary, his relationship with James Hunt and what he really thinks of Murrayisms.
You’ll enjoy this.
In his latest video Chris Harris shows us how he used his Ferrari 512 TR to buy some bread. As you can see, he even hams it up in a white linen suit to complete the Miami Vice look. Explaining his lack of talking, Harris notes: “When a car looks and sounds as good as this, you don’t need to talk.”
Video of a Shelby Daytona Cobra, filmed at full noise on a race track is a very rare thing indeed. Especially when you consider only six of these American muscle cars were made (between 1964–65). Powered by a Ford 289 V8 this example sounds like thunder. We thank Marchettino for sharing this video with the world!
As you know the Alfa Romeo 4C was launched last week. Alfa did this by inviting a bunch of motoring hacks to Italy and threw them a set of keys. Initial thoughts via Top Gear were less flattering than perhaps we wanted. So what did Chris Harris think?
Well, we’ll let you watch the video of course, suffice to say he thinks the basic ingredients are right: “There’s something about a light, mid-engined, car that just feels right, isn’t there.”
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Take me to the river
Left 3, 100, then into barrier and drop me in the water!
We’re guessing that’s not the actual pace notes read out to amateur racer Harry Kleinjan in the moments leading up to this spectacular accident. And, thankfully, we can joke about it because both driver and navigator escaped without harm.
The incident happened in the Hellendoorn Rally held in the Netherlands on the weekend. You can see before and after footage after the jump!
[Source: autoblog.nl (translated) | Thanks to Paul & John for the tips]