Honda's F1 dream

Posted by Michael Harvey at 11:00AM on Monday 26 February, 2007 14 Comments

Imagine you're the global CEO of one of, say, McLaren's F1 sponsors.

The only thing bigger than your remuneration package is your ego. You have, consequently, flown in 300 of your closest friends and business associates to Melbourne for the first Grand Prix of the season...

Mod almighty

Posted by Tom Ford at 1:25PM on Friday 23 February, 2007 8 Comments

I'm going to have the modifying conversation. Someone has to, because it seems to be the only mode of chat between my mates and I down the pub.

And I'm not talking cutting the springs on a MKII Golf GTi either - I'm talking about tweaking that turns into transformation. ...

Road to ruin

Posted by Paul Horrell at 4:30PM on Wednesday 21 February, 2007 21 Comments

So almost 1.8 million people signed up to the road-pricing petition. That's an awful lot - more than can be accounted for by a few bulb-eyed maniacs signing up multiple times under the names of their spouses, kids, and goldfish. It's a real popular outcry...

Rocket men

Posted by James May at 6:00PM on Tuesday 20 February, 2007 22 Comments

Since everyone - Jeremy included - is harping on about mine and Hammond's astronomical rocketry failure, let me make one thing clear.

Exploration of the final frontier is no easier now than it was when Gagarin fell to Earth and told a Russian peasant woman that he'd come from space...