Alfa Romeo pits Man vs MiTo in four-mile race through London

Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, Alfa Romeo, UK Man vs MiTo – Click above for high-res image gallery Pitting a car against a runner along busy city streets is something you’d expect to see on an episode of Top Gear. This time, however, it’s Alfa Romeo that challenged athletes to a four-mile race through downtown London. [...]

McLaren opens first of 35 dealers worldwide for sold-out MP4-12C

Filed under: Car Buying, Performance, UK, MISC McLaren London at One Hyde Park – Click above for high-res images Know what you’re looking at right now? An empty showroom. (Or rather, a preview rendering thereof.) McLaren London will open its doors at One Hyde Park as the first of 35 new dealers opening in 19 [...]

Report: London Mayor Boris Johnson hits Obama’s motorcade with congestion charge

Filed under: Sedan, Government/Legal, Cadillac, UK Rules are rules, and they apply equally to everyone – including the President of the United States. Especially when he’s on foreign soil. After President Barack Obama‘s famous Cadillac limousine – known as The Beast – got stuck exiting the US embassy in Dublin, it was shipped across the [...]

1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom 10EX prototype up for auction

Filed under: Concept Cars, Classics, Auctions, Rolls-Royce 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom 10EX – Click above for high-res image gallery Times change and so do trends. These days, everyone’s clamoring for more environmentally-friendly and fuel-efficient cars that even Rolls-Royce is tinkering with electric propulsion. The program is being carried out on the 102EX electric Phantom prototype. But [...]

Architects model the City of Tomorrow on Ferrari engine components

Filed under: Ferrari, Design/Style City of Tomorrow at Ferrari Store London – Click above for high-res image gallery Ever get the nagging feeling that there are tiny little people or creatures of some sort living inside your engine? Call them gremlins, engine gnomes or what have you, but you’re not alone. Duggan Morris Architects took [...]