We first spotted this Hyundai i20 rally car on the back of a trailer heading over Northern Ireland’s Glenshane Pass back in April. It was a chance sighting but a couple of weeks later, we discovered it had just received its fresh new eye-catching livery and was heading to its new home at John Mulholland Motors’ ‘top secret facility’…
I have touched on the Ariel Motor Company before on this blog when I road tested an Ariel Atom 2, so I won’t go into the company on this post more than to say that they are a small firm based in Somerset in the south of England who design and produce some seriously capable and unique cars.
On Saturday I travelled into the hills above Broughshane to catch up with local drift driver Mark McBurney who at the age of just 24 has achieved something, that as far as we are aware, no one else has achieved in the Irish drift scene before now.
Niall Henry is one of a growing handful of competitors who has switched to an R4 specification rally car in recent years. His mount of choice is this stunning Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X which he purchased towards the end of 2015…
For many the Vauxhall Nova will be one of the most iconic cars of their childhood, for others one of the most memorable cars they ever owned as a teenager on R Plates and for some a car that was truly out of reach but on a bucket list.
If the word ‘Samba’ is derived from the Angolan term ‘semba’, which referred to an invitation to dance, then the Talbot Samba can be regarded as Talbot’s final dance…
In 1931, Ferdinand Porsche and Austrian engineer founded a company called “Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH” and moved the company to its offices in Stuttgart, Germany. Initially set up to offer consultancy and development work for the motor industry one of Ferdinand’s first assignments was commissioned by the German government and resulted in the VW Beetle being launched in 1938, to this day the Beetle is still an iconic design.
Feast your eyes on this brand, spanking new Skoda Fabia R5. To date, less than 50 of these cars have been produced and this one – number 43 – is primed for an attack on both the British and Irish Tarmac Championships at the hands of Desi Henry…
The Subaru Impreza chassis has been more successful in rallying than Subaru’s previous contenders. Prior to the introduction of the Impreza into World Rally Championship racing in 1993, the Subaru World Rally Team had fielded its larger mid-size Legacy.
In 1975 Lotus launched a new car at the Paris Motor show after a few years of development from a concept car that was to revolutionise the brand and keep it well within the supercar segment at the time.