Back to basics

IN THE OLD DAYS, BLACK WAS NOT a cool colour. But no trend lasts forever, right? Surely we passed peak blackness with the Vantablack BMW a few years back. Because once you’ve hit the level of invisibi

THERE’S A POWERFUL symmetry between car engines and watch movements. Zenith’s El Primero with its 36,000 vibrations per hour (5Hz) beat rate is the Watchworld equivalent of the Type 26 Elan’s 1558cc t

Mechanically impressive and appealingly ‘olde worlde’, the best new jumping-hour watches have complications worth unpicking

Producing a large-format and premium-priced book about a single car is never an easy task, however meritorious the subject. Porter Press has plenty of experience with this genre, however, and the team

Monterey Car Week culminated with its traditional closer on 17 August, as the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance crowned a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo as its Best of Show. What is

“ I love driving above 300kph and listening to Firestarter by The Prodigy,” remarks Frank Heyl. Bugatti’s director of design might have told people this before, but it’s unlikely that anyone will ever