Takaharu ‘Koby’ Kobayakawa It is impossible to imagine how Mazda’s image in 1976 could have been more disastrous. Boat loads of rotary-powered RX-2, RX-3 and RX-4s were turned back across […]
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Bob Knight
The meal had been lavish, the wine magnificent, under the chandelier of the ancient dining room in The Welcombe Hotel, a grand old English country house just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. It […]
Tom McCahill
The Man Who Invented Zero to 60 ‘Uncle Tom” McCahill invented the benchmark 0-60mph acceleration test. British motoring magazines like The Autocar and The Motor performance tested cars over 20-years […]
Citroen
This is a mildly edited version of the talk AMHF board member Peter Robinson gave to the 51st National Citroen gathering in Bendigo on April 4. Good Evening….and thank you […]
Australia’s Greatest Motoring Writer – Bill Tuckey
This is a mildly edited version of the eulogy delivered by AMHF board member Peter Robinson at Bill Tuckey’s funeral in 2016. When Marcia and Stuart asked me to speak […]
Not every press launch goes to plan…..
In the words of the late-Bill Tuckey, Australia’s finest motoring writer, “When anything can go wrong with a new model press launch, it will.” Perhaps most famously, even for supposedly […]
Leonardo Fioravanti
Leonardo Fioravanti gripped me by the elbow and steered me to a point diagonally behind the red Daytona. I’d asked, apprehensively, “Is there anything you would change, if you could […]
Audi Quattro Spyder
This was a private mother-and-son moment that transcended their roles as European automotive nobility. The proud engineer son and CEO of Audi, Ferdinand Piech, parading his new concept sports car […]
Carl Borgward and his Marque
Readers of this column undoubtedly know of Borgward, but I suspect most people under the age of 50 have never heard of the marque, let alone acquired any real knowledge […]
