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Corvette Concept

Shamus Toomey · Apr 7, 2025 ·

by Peter Robinson – – – The first in a raft of Corvette concept cars due to be unveiled this year has been revealed at the official opening of GM’s […]

A chat with Peter Davis

Shamus Toomey · Oct 13, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson Peter Davis, the American designer who helped create one of the most controversially styled cars of the past 50 years, was guest speaker at the AMHF earlier […]

How GM and Ford produced the same size engines

Shamus Toomey · Sep 30, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson This is a coincidence that stretches beyond the imagination. In late 1950 and early 1952, General Motors and Ford – sworn rivals as the world’s two biggest […]

GM: Thinking for Design

Shamus Toomey · Sep 17, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson Thinking time: that vital period when a CEO or senior manager is free to reflect, to contemplate the future, and hopefully come up with strategies that drive […]

Cropley Curve

Shamus Toomey · Apr 20, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson Silverstone has Hamilton Straight, Scotland the Jim Clark circuit, Sydney Motor Sport Park Brabham Straight and Bahrain the Schumacher S, all named to honour the memory of […]

In pursuit of 200mph

Shamus Toomey · Mar 28, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson Embarrassingly, I don’t remember the first time I topped 100mph on the road. Almost certainly most of you – at least those of a certain age – […]

The Mille Miglia’s Contessa

Peter Robinson · Jan 13, 2024 ·

by Peter Robinson These were no ordinary family photograph albums. In the frescoed library of Contessa Camilla Maggi’s Calino home, among a stack of scrap books, you’d find a leather-bound, […]

Henry Royce and the South of France

Peter Robinson · Dec 11, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Observant motorists driving east along the Avenue de la Corniche, as it winds above the Mediterranean between Le Lavandou and St Tropez in the south of France, […]

My Friend Griff

Shamus Toomey · Oct 29, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Forty-nine years ago, upon becoming the editor of Wheels magazine, I discovered a pile of manuscripts written by Griffith Borgeson. The name was familiar, I dimly knew […]

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