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 In my opinion, nothing embodies the spirit of auto racing in its purest form than rallying. This form of motor sport harkens back to the days before closed circuits when road racing literally meant what its name implies: two or more cars racing on public roads from point A to point B. It is no [...]
Just the other day I was editing some video from Europe (Don’t worry. I will post some of it online eventually… honest!) and thinking of the virtues of travel by campervan. Running around with everything you need within easy reach is extremely appealing but, in a van, you have the added advantage of easy movement [...]
Now there is one more reason to love Porsche’s mid-engine supercar, the Cayman S—as if I needed more reasons; however, all the reasons in the world will not help me overcome the steep purchase price. In November 2007, the company will be introducing the Cayman S “Porsche Design Edition 1â€.
The car incorporates styling cues traditionally [...]
One of the few things that was left undone during our 2005 European odyssey was to visit the Nürburgring. This legendary track in the Eifel Mountains of Germany, 70 kilometers outside of Cologne, was known as “The Green Hell†during the early days of the modern Formula 1 championship when “Ringmeisters†like Juan Manuel Fangio, [...]
Porsche has announced that a group of 26 slightly modified Cayenne S SUVs will run the 2007 edition of the Trans-Siberia Rally from Moscow to Ulaan Batar, 3,850 miles away. The idea came after a privately entered Cayenne succesfully completed the grueling rally. Porsche’s own Trans-Siberian Rally web special is running a feature on the driver [...]
A recent feature on ZDNet Galleries is a collection of photos about one of the teams that operate a Tele Atlas mapping van. These high tech vehicles based on custom VW Crafter van cutaway chassis, roam Europe capturing images and data that will be featured in navigation systems by customers like Google, Mercedes Benz, Navman, [...]
I recently came upon a new concept vehicle from Volkswagen that hit the blogosphere last September. The VW Atacama Camper Concept is based on Volkswagen’s Crafter van, which is not available in the US, but is in the same class as the Mercedez Benz Sprinter. What makes this concept interesting is that it features 4WD, a reflection of [...]
After a week of near perfect weather, frigid temperatures returned over the weekend; however, I was not too broken up about since it gave me an excuse to stay inside most of the weekend and enjoy some of the great auto racing that was going on. I was going through withdrawals after the end of [...]
One vehicle that has the cachet of the Defender and is available in the US-in some form at least-is the Mercedes Benz G-class. A type 461 G-class was featured in a recent Sahara trek article in Motor Trend’s Truck Trend magazine written by Tom Sheppard, who wrote the definitive work on vehicle-dependent expeditions. Sheppard’s “G-wagen” [...]
Overland travel is probably the most accessible form of adventure travel for the average amateur adventurer. Having been born in an island, I always assumed that I would travel the world aboard a cruising sailboat. When I moved to America, I began to recognize the possibilities that overland travel could offer without the complications and [...]
