Unconventional, flamboyant, ground-breaking, colourful, controversial — the Benetton Formula 1 team was all of those things. Defying perceptions as the rebels of Formula 1, Benetton achieved great success, particularly in the two glorious seasons of 1994 and 1995 when the team swept aside the big names — Williams, McLaren and Ferrari — to claim back-to-back
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Basically this is a collection of all the Free Car Mag covers in one place so I can look at it when I’m in an old gits home, but there is the story of how the mag happened and why you should never start a magazine, plus a brief history of British Car Magazines, including
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Ever wondered what led to the great success of Porsche automobiles? Motorsport! Motorsport not only gave Porsche the opportunity to test progressive technology that could be transferred to roadsters, it also was the ideal marketing tool with an enormous influence. A brief look back shows that successful serial winners and racing legends emerged in consonance
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For some of us, the 1990s were only yesterday. They were simpler, Brit Poppy times with dial up Internet. The cars were brilliant too, not just characterful and entertaining they were safer. The adoption of ABS and crumple zones, along with power steering made them easier to live with, plus they remain truly fixable, rather
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Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global
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There’s a new book out by Free Car Mag editor and founder, that’s me by the way, which is about the old days. It’s about the old days when looking for a car took some effort, plus there are some interviews I did with car dealers, politicians and silly celebs. Readers seem to like it,
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