Category: Automotive
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“Formula 1 is the right place for Rolex to be”
Rolex signs global partnership with Formula 1 From the 2013 season, Luxury Swiss watch brand Rolex is the official Formula 1 timekeeper and the official timepiece to the sport. According to Rolex, the new partnership is “due to develop over the coming seasons”. The Swiss company will place its logo around the Formula 1 circuits…
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The fastest artwork ever – Bugatti Grand Sport Venet
Bugatti Grand Sport Venet 2012 A unique collaboration between Bugatti and famous conceptual French artist, Bernar Venet translated into an artistic interpretation of the Bugatti Grand Sport. Vernet, an avid passionate about mathematics and scientific treatises, adorned the fastest car in the world with engineering studies and equations that created Bugatti‘s mythical performance. The…
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MB&F’s timepiece with a 1970s twist: HM5 On The Road Again
MB&F’s HM5 “On The Road Again” Watch MB&F’s HM5 takes the 1970s icons and now, 40 years into the future, puts them “On the Road Again” with a new Horological Machine called HM5. The futuristic case is inspired by the early 1970s, when “everything seemed possible: humanoid robots, jet-packs and flying cars”. The supercars,…
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‘Birkin’ Bentley wins 2012 International Historic Motoring Awards
‘Birkin’ Bentley was named “Car of the Year” at 2012 International Historic Motoring Awards hosted at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and presented by five-time Le Mans winner and double World Sports Car Champion Derek Bell. The 1931 4.5-litre Supercharged Bentley set the Outer Circuit record of 137.96mph at Brooklands in 1932, in the hands…
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A preview of future mobility at the Audi museum mobile
Future engines, future energies and urban future The new sources of energy for sustainable future mobility are the focus of the new exhibition “Audi future lab: mobility” which runs from December 6, 2012 to March 17, 2013 at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. The Audi future engines exhibit area showcases drive technologies under development…
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2013 World Solar Challenge: 4 days in the CUER solar car with the power of a hair dryer
CUER’s sun-powered car for the 2013 World Solar Challenge Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) is a 60 student organisation that design, build and race solar powered vehicles, aiming to win the World Solar Challenge 2013 in Australia, the world’s foremost solar endurance race. Since its founding in 2007, CUER have been the UK’s number…