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Ghosts of Browns Lane: a reader visits Jag's museum

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Eoin Doyle, 03 October 2011 09:11

CAR reader Eoin Doyle takes a trip down memory lane when he visits Brown Lane. And he unearths a worrying threat to Jaguar's inhouse museum... You can tell a good deal about the commercial state of a car company by visiting its museum. While it remains fairly likely that Ssangyong hasn’t yet seen fit to lay up a pristine Rodius ...

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Ghosts of Browns Lane: a reader visits Jag's museum

Ghosts of Browns Lane: a reader visits Jag's museum

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Eoin Doyle, 03 October 2011 09:11

CAR reader Eoin Doyle takes a trip down memory lane when he visits Brown Lane. And he unearths a worrying threat to Jaguar's inhouse museum... You can tell a good deal about the commercial state of a car company by visiting its museum. While it remains fairly likely that Ssangyong hasn’t yet seen fit to lay up a pristine Rodius ...

CAR reader's son designs Ferrari FF spin-offs (2011)

CAR reader's son designs Ferrari FF spin-offs (2011)

Rated 4 out of 54

Tim Pollard, 07 February 2011 11:37

CAR reader Peter Tremulis clearly has a very clever son. Daniel, 18, has drawn up these Ferrari FF spin-offs - designed to extend Maranello's four-wheel drive estate into new niches. And this is no mere idle Photoshoppery. Peter has sent the artwork to Ferrari design chief Flavio Manzoni. Who knows what may happen next! Over to you, Peter. 'My son ...

Car design: a reader laments current styling trends

Car design: a reader laments current styling trends

Rated 4 out of 54

seant, 18 October 2010 11:39

No Sonny, They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Did In My Day Actually, back then, if they could be bothered to make them at all, they hardly ever made them properly, and much of what got made properly wasn’t worth the bother. So that’s nostalgia for you. But a post a while back from the clear-sighted Wittgenfrog echoed my own ...

The no-show cars: a reader rant on mad concepts

The no-show cars: a reader rant on mad concepts

Rated 4 out of 54

seant, 14 April 2010 16:47

Instigated by Harley Earl at General Motors in the late 30s with the quaintly named Buick Y-Job, show cars, or concept cars, were presented to an excited public eager for new things. As the world recovered from a depression and then a war, these vehicles pointed to a better future that many people believed in, including the people who produced ...

Why driverless Audi at Pikes Peak is sinister

Why driverless Audi at Pikes Peak is sinister

Rated 1.5 out of 51.5

JenkinsComp, 30 November 2009 10:46

CAR Online reader JenkinsComp has a bee under his bonnet about the new driverless Audi TT S unveiled today. It foreshadows a political drive to stop us driving our own cars - transferring power from individual to state. You have been warned... In an unwanted display of ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’, Audi is set to undo any respect for its past ...

French Revolution: a tragic tale of three car brands

French Revolution: a tragic tale of three car brands

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Anonymous, 23 October 2009 15:21

Once upon a time, in France, there were three brothers, three very different characters, but whose futures were inextricably linked. The youngest brother was Citroen. He was brilliant and he was good-looking. And he was pretty popular, especially with the ‘smart-set’, who could sit in cafés listening to him for hours, although they never really understood a word he was ...

The original Mini and honesty of purpose

The original Mini and honesty of purpose

Rated 4 out of 54

Arunabh Satpathy, 21 July 2009 13:11

The following was uploaded direct to CAR Online by Arunabh Satpathy. Remember you can upload your own musings, articles and reviews by using the Upload function at the foot of each article pageWhat can possibly redeem a soul? Bruised, battered, chewed up and spat on, people often fall back on the only thing there is to fall back upon. 'At ...

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