Postwar Aura: Bentley R-type ContinentalOnce upon a time the world’s fastest four-passenger car.
“This is a fairly agricultural piece of kit, isn’t it?” remarked photographer Colin Curwood as we examined details — such as the front compartment foot-level vents — of the Continental R Mulliner coupe that had been pulled out of the Bentley factory’s design [...]
Postwar Aura: Bentley R-type ContinentalOnce upon a time the world’s fastest four-passenger car.
“This is a fairly agricultural piece of kit, isn’t it?” remarked photographer Colin Curwood as we examined details — such as the front compartment foot-level vents — of the Continental R Mulliner coupe that had been pulled out of the Bentley factory’s design [...]
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler, Ford, GM
The U.S. House of Representatives is investigating the motives behind the recent decision by Ford to pull an ad from its YouTube account that’s critical of the government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler, only later to restore it. Representative Darrell Issa, R-California, has asked Alan Mulally, president [...]
Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Ford
Our spy photographers have snapped a glimpse of the forthcoming 2013 Ford Fusion. The Mondeo-based sedan looks to have lifted lighting inspiration from the Ford Evos Concept that the automaker debuted at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. With thin, slit-like projection lenses and a very vertical grille, the 2013 Fusion [...]
Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, First Drives, Police/Emergency
Anything But A Trivial Pursuit
There’s something inherently satisfying about using a blunt force object for its exact purpose, be it ripping the cover off a baseball with a Louisville Slugger or bonking one of those animatronic pop-up varmints with a rubber mallet at the local arcade. At the opposite [...]
