The colour of failure?

Posted by Bill Thomas at 1:05PM on Thursday 25 January, 2007 23 Comments

This is the new Renault F1 car.

It looks wonderful, especially the liquid-modelled sidepods and mirror extensions - they're fantastic, like the freeform organic shapes HR Gieger would have designed for the Alien movie set - but the paint scheme doesn't look quite right...

Monte Carlo horror blog

Posted by Tom Ford at 3:30PM on Tuesday 23 January, 2007 8 Comments

I love my job, don't get me wrong. Most of the time it's exactly as good as you imagine - as long as you're borderline anally retentive about cars.

But this week I've had one of the most frustrating, what-really-can-go-wrong-next weeks...

Engineering pornland

Posted by Tom Ford at 11:15AM on Monday 22 January, 2007 18 Comments

Trotted up to the UK's Autosport show last Thursday, ostensibly to poke around a couple of cars they had up there, but more because the show itself tends to attract some really odd stuff secreted away in corners that usually makes my head spin off in odd directions...

A diamond in the rough: day 7

Posted by Piers Ward at 1:00PM on Wednesday 17 January, 2007 0 Comments

It was a seriously early start this morning because we wanted to get to Fish River Canyon before the sun rises. And we've got a long way to go before we get back to Cape Town and catch our return flight home.

The journey starts well, but it takes ages to cross the border...