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Lotus are joining other prestige and luxury car brands, like Bentley, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce in offering a vehicle personalisation service for their customers. Known as ‘Lotus Chapman Bespoke’ in honour of Lotus founders, Colin and Hazel Chapman, the service will stretch from simple things, like special colours, badging and interior trim, to complete one-off builds. Created in response to what Lotus says was popular demand, Lotus Chapman Bespoke launched in China in April, with the service to be offered through the rest of the world by the end of 2024. “The story of Lotus is the story of a bespoke carmaker,” said Qingfeng Feng, CEO, Lotus Group. “The first cars were hand-drawn and hand-built at home by Colin Chapman, and that spirit lives on in us today.”…

Since its first edition in 2019, the Sydney Harbour Concours d’Elegance has brought together some of the world’s finest cars. This year’s event, held on 1 – 3 March, was no exception, but some significant changes for 2024 not only broadened the event, but also brought it to more people. More than 75 display vehicles - from the 1920s to the present day – provided the breadth, while an all-new location for 2024 meant more people could see, enjoy and experience the finest in haute automobilisme. I say “experience” because the 2024 Ampol Sydney Harbour Concours d’Elegance introduced a new element where cars were paraded on the event’s two main days. “This was the biggest and best Sydney Harbour Concours d’Elegance in our sixyear history,” said concours founder and curator,…

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Aunique 4x4 truck built by Australia’s largest transport and logistics insurance experts, National Transport Insurance (NTI) and their partners, is being raffled to continue the company’s ongoing efforts to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease research. Custom trucks have been the bedrock of NTI’s fundraising efforts in the fight against MND for the past six years, resulting in more than $2 million raised to date. Postwar Ford ‘Jailbar’ trucks with new running gear and other modern conveniences have featured prominently amongst past builds, including ‘Roxanne’ from 2019, ‘Sandy’ from 2020 and ‘Jolene’ from 2021. This year’s raffle truck, ‘Bonnie’, continues the theme, being a 1946 model, but is the most radical reinterpretation of a classic Ford Jailbar to date. For starters, Bonnie is a dual cab pickup – a body…

Production of the all-new Mini Cooper at Mini Plant Oxford in the UK has begun. At an event in mid-March attended by the Head of Mini, Stefanie Wurst, other Mini executives and plant associates, the first example of the fifth-generation car was driven off the line by Charlie Cooper, grandson of the legendary John Cooper. The first to see the performance potential of the original Austin/Morris Mini, John Cooper, co-founder of Cooper Car Co. Ltd., introduced Cooper-badged Minis in 1961 with a larger, more powerful engine, revised gear ratios and disc front brakes. The Cooper S followed in 1963, when rallying success was translated to circuit racing victories, too. Since then, Cooper performance variants have been a staple of Mini production and continue with this latest generation. “This underscores the…

The automotive design community has lost one of most prodigious and gifted members in Marcello Gandini, who passed away on 13 March, aged 85. Born in Turin in 1938, Gandini reportedly had no real interest in car design as a youngster, being more enthusiastic about the mechanics of automobiles. One of Gandini’s earliest styling jobs was done on a friend’s OSCA Fiat 1500, but it wasn’t until he was recruited by Bertone in 1965, replacing Giorgetto Giugiaro who had left to join Ghia, that he rose to prominence. At Bertone, one of Gandini’s first styling jobs was for a car that’s an icon today: the Lamborghini Miura. While some contention exists around how much of the Miura was done by Giugiaro before he left Bertone, Gandini maintains most of the…

For Holden, the HQ Series that launched in 1971 was a revolution, bringing an all-new design and revolutionary engineering changes. The Monaro was part of that massive change and would experience its own revolution a couple of years later. It seems hard to fathom now, but the HQ wasn’t immediately embraced by the Aussie public when it debuted in July, 1971. For some, the HQ’s different shape was thought to be too different and not reflective of the big square cars that had defined Holden for most of the previous decade. Buyers warmed to the HQ, though, and it would continue until late 1974, making it the second longest production run of any Holden up that point - only the 48-215 (aka FX) was on the market for longer. Of…

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