by Fast Machines | Jul 3, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
From the July 2017 issue The mainstream is an easy place to drown in cow pies. Just look at the news, or a TED Talk. And few things are more mainstream than cars. There are more than 240 million light vehicles registered in America, and lately we’ve been buying some...
by Fast Machines | Jul 3, 2017 | Formula One Blog
‘It was like being on a speed train,’ he recalled. ‘I was learning so much: how to deal with TV shows, red carpets, pressure, press, travel. This is where my fitness coach, Pierre, and Mirka, my wife, have been unbelievable. They were the rocks behind the whole...
by Fast Machines | Jul 3, 2017 | Exterior
We’ve previously profiled occasional C/D contributor P.J. O’Rourke’s Driving Like Crazy: 30 Years of Vehicular Hellbending, but that doesn’t mean you don’t still need it. A list of “bests” is always temporary, but these books will add weight to anyone’s corpus of...
by Fast Machines | Jul 3, 2017 | Auto News
It’s called the Gen.E research vehicle and it’s built on a lightweight architecture. The concept didn’t make any sort of grand debut at a major auto show, but instead it has quietly been announced at Future Mobility Days 2017. Volkswagen shared what it calls a small...
by Fast Machines | Jul 3, 2017 | Formula One Blog
Martyn Falconer, the head gardener, and his 16 assistants are tending some 50,000 plants including hydrangeas, petunias and lavenders that are designed to give Wimbledon the air of an English garden. The bane of Falconer’s life is the iconic ivy that covers the...
