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Hay bales are a permanent fixture at the Festival of Speed in Goodwood - in case someone runs out of room in the bend. But you can also do completely different things with them. Bentley has demonstrated this in the long term and used the festival to look ahead to its future. We thought that was quite nice.

A Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 and a somewhat surprising headline at first glance. But then it fits damn well. How did we come up with it? The owner explained it to us.

They say that the guys from Coolnvintage are at least ­partly responsible for the fact that the Land Rover has come to be considered the “it” car of the twenty-first century. The restoration workshop recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with a ­magnificent photographic homage to Land Rovers.

A long time ago, our author was driving through the Canadian Arctic with Hans-Joachim Stuck. At some point, the two came to talk about one of motorsport’s most tragic episodes.

A super super super test on a spring day in Berlin with a few thoughts about interpersonal relationships. Though frogs play a not entirely insignificant role in this story as well.

Some people get into a Lamborghini Aventador S, step on the gas and drive off into the sunset. Our author, however, ended up with a car that wanted to bring him back down to earth. Worked out so-so.

One design, two racing series, three factory cars at the 24 Hours of Le Mans: With the Porsche 963 hybrid racer, Porsche returns to the top level of endurance racing. And continues to make history.

Endurance racing is the ultimate challenge, no challenge in racing is more relentless, merciless and revelatory for man, brand and machine. The queen of endurance races: Le Mans. We approach this myth.

Steve McQueen’s Le Mans is a feature-length tribute to the legendary 24-hour-race in northern France. There isn’t much of a story, but the movie is full of snapshot-like moments that simply show things as they are. When it premiered in 1971, the very unusual Hollywood production was initially a box office flop.

Stéphane Lenglin penned the design of the Porsche 963 Le Mans prototype. That’s rather unusual, given the fact that this is a performance-oriented racing car and Lenglin is not an aerodynamic engineer but a designer. But that’s typically Porsche. How so? In our interview, he tells us all about it.

Toan Nguyen has been called the “wunderkind of the advertising industry” for his pioneering and professional approach to subcultures that combines gaming, science fiction and fantasy with big-name brands, one example being the collaboration between Haribo and Super Mario. You could also say that his inspirations have playfully transformed the world of marketing. In our interview with the thirty-seven-year-old entrepreneur, we talked about niches, his road to success and why the CUPRA brand had already caught his eye some time ago. (Hint: It has something to do with gaming.)

Blue skies, the scent of fresh grass, the warmth of the moment – but above all: sunshine. The light of the sun’s rays, scientists say, is the decisive factor at the beginning of the warm season that triggers the merry mix of happiness hormones which energetically drive us headlong into the summer. Love is in the air.

In few other places in the world do past and present merge as harmoniously as in Palm Springs. The only thing missing now is the future. But that’s what the BMW XM is for.

Almost exactly 60 years ago, Ferruccio Lamborghini was of the clear opinion that there was a technically better solution for the clutch in his Ferrari. In general, he had his own very specific ideas about the technical demands that should be placed on such a sports car if it ...

The journey is the destination. And on National Odometer Day, Americans celebrate precisely this fact. And the odometer. Three routes, sometimes more, sometimes less serious, that they should have travelled in their lives. Or have already done anyway.