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William Friedkin’s Sorcerer: Still a Wild, White-Knuckle Ride Nearly 50 Years Later
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Ford boss Lisa Brankin wins top award at Autocar Great Women Awards 2024
Ford UK and Ireland boss Lisa Brankin has been named the most influential woman in the British automotive industry at the Autocar Great Women Awards 2024.
Car Culture Hub With Dozens of Classics Destroyed in Garage Inferno in Ireland
A major hub of car culture in Ireland has gone up in smoke. A building housing an array of automotive businesses, including a classic car dealer and a drift shop, were gutted by a fire that may have claimed dozens of historic cars. It's unclear whether the site has a future, with one resident lamenting that their «family business is no more»—though some former residents appear to be preparing for a comeback.
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer: Still a Wild, White-Knuckle Ride Nearly 50 Years Later
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MWM Spartan 2.0: driving the £50k electric off-roader
As we enter the EV era, the word ‘vapourware’ is coming up a lot. You will be familiar with the story: a small firm appears out of nowhere, it shows renderings of a car to the media, its founder/CEO does an interview or two and then suddenly it’s a few years later and you realise that you never heard anything more about it.
Crying in Apple Vision Pro
There’s a passage in Elif Batuman’s “Summer in Samarkand Part II,” published in N+1 in 2010, that I’ve never forgotten. Batuman noted that the language of Old Uzbek had 100 different words for crying. Old Uzbek had words for “wanting to cry and not being able to; for being caused to sob by something; loudly crying like thunder in the clouds; crying in gasps; weeping inwardly or secretly; crying ceaselessly in a high voice; crying in hiccups; and for crying while uttering the sound hay hay,” Batuman wrote.
Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan
The 1960 model year saw a trio of brand-new compact Detroit cars ( the Corvair, Valiant and Falcon) appear to do battle with increasingly popular small imports. Sales were strong, and the Detroit Big Three plus the Kenosha One got busy preparing midsize cars to slide between the compacts and the full — sizers. Ford's entry was the Fairlane, which debuted as a 1962 model. Here's one of those first-generation Fairlanes, found in a self-service boneyard just south of Denver, Colorado.
All New Cars Sold In Europe From July 2024 Will Have A Black Box
Colloquially known as black boxes, flight recorders were mandated by top aviation countries in the late 1960s. Despite their name, they're not actually black; these devices are typically bright orange to make them easier to find after a crash. Later this year, a similar device will become mandatory on all new cars sold in the European Union.