Articles by Tom Harrison
18/05/15
Ever thought the Lamborghini Aventador was more ‘Moo’ than raging bull? Oakley did
18/05/15
Pay attention Ford fans strong, the Blue Oval’s just released a slew of new cars in what it's calling the biggest product offensive ever
18/05/15
Ford's baby 1.0-litre 3-pot has been put to very good use in this street-legal racer
18/05/15
Rolls-Royce has unveiled the Phantom Aviator Collection - 35 Coupés with bespoke detailing reminiscent of Charles Rolls's Supermarine S6B, one of the 1930s fastest aircraft . No, Not the sunglasses.
18/05/15
The Editor-in-Chief of Estonia’s edition of Top Gear Magazine has died in a car accident
18/05/15
To honour the 50 th anniversary of the Shelby Cobra , and pay tribute to its late creator, a group of companies including Ford, Ford Racing and Shelby American, but collectively known as the “Friends of Carroll Shelby”, have come together to build a one-of-a-kind 2013 Mustang GT500.
18/05/15
Will.I.Am's not been having a good time of it recently. First, he creates a crap car. Then, said crap car gets nicked. Karma?
18/05/15
McLaren will debut the MP4-12C Can-Am Edition at this weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance . It’s a comprehensively re-worked version of the carmaker’s existing GT3 racer, albeit free from FIA regulation and therefore better in every measurable way. Boom shakalaka.
18/05/15
Good news for learners. RED Driving School and insurance company Provisional Marmalade have joined forces to offer aspiring drivers pay-as-you-go fully-comp insurance policies for as little as £85 per month .
18/05/15
It’s been a little over a year since Alfa Romeo’s diminutive 4C Concept made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show, but Autocar Magazine can only now confirm that the two-door coupé will give birth to a convertible version around a year after its initial launch . Ka-boom.
18/05/15
You may’ve heard that East London is currently hosting a minor, inconsequential sporting competition . I know, who’d have thought? Apparently, we’re doing rather well too.
18/05/15
By now, Londoners will undoubtedly be familiar with the multitude of be-stickered BMWs currently flitting about the East-End and conspicuously flying down deserted “Games Lanes” past hapless punters and steely-eyed cabbies alike - all to a chorus of callous cussing and extended middle fingers.
18/05/15
Happy Monday Car Throttlers, and welcome to the ultimate edition of Beauty & The Beast . This week Bertone finds itself under the spotlight...
18/05/15
It’s Monday so you know what that means Car Throttlers . Yep, it’s time for the eagerly anticipated third instalment of Beauty & The Beast . This week, we’ll be putting Zagato under the microscope.
18/05/15
A stolen 1967 Austin Healey has been reunited with its rightful owner - after 42 years .
18/05/15
Gig..., Guig..., Giugiaro? Is that right? Yes, I think it is . Anyway, welcome Car Throttlers to Beauty & The Beast: Part Two. This week, we’ve turned our attention to, you guessed it, Giorgetto Giugiaro and ItalDesign - the design house he founded in 1968 after brief spells at Bertone and Ghia.
18/05/15
Bad news - there’s still no Up! GTI, no Citigo VRS, and no Mii Cupra R . As such, for the time being, diet hot-hatch fans’ll have to make do with this - the SEAT Mii Vibora Negra.
18/05/15
Kenny from the Block (if you don’t know who we’re talking about, leave...) has just outed the latest installment in his illusive tyre-shredding Gymkhana franchise - and it’s AWESOME.
18/05/15
Sergio Pininfarina - the 85 year-old honorary chairman of the Italian design house that bares his name - died at his home in Turin last week . His accession to the top job in 1966 heralded a new beginning for the company; it’s since designed and built some of the world’s most beautiful machines.
18/05/15
There’s a new £190,000 V12 Aston Marting flagship, and it’s a resurrection of one of the best names in the business - Vanquish.
18/05/15
What do you get if you add SVT to RS? Letters, more letters and 'ST', apparently . Not RSSVT, SVRTS or whatever else - but ST. This latest acronym (because what the car industry really needs is another acronym - I could just tell them all to F-O personally), I’m told, stands for “Sporting Technology”.
18/05/15
Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer’s Conference doesn’t usually bother us petrolheads too much. We might catch-up with the event’s goings-on the next day, just to see how long we’ve got before our brand-spanking-new iPhone’s out of date again, but for the most part it’s not that big a deal.
18/05/15
Double Olympic sprinting champ’ Usain Bolt really enjoys breaking records . And, it seems, BMW M3s. That’s right, M3s. For the second time in three years, Bolt has stuffed £55,000 worth of Bavaria’s finest.