Welcome to the trends page, drop into 6th gear and cruise your way through some light reading, learn about different trends that are hot on the road at the moment. Spark up your automotive imagination for a possible car to make its was onto the drive way.
A combustion chamber for petrol powered discussions to explode, powering your way through the car enthusiast world. Debate with other lovers of speed and power, learning about new and exciting wheels on the road.
To kick things of we have thrown in a few of our favourite trends to open up a topic of discussion and to get the wheels rolling…
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For any petrol head the GT car really is one of the best all round instruments to sit on your driveway. Taking a two door coupe or saloon across the borders of Europe, searching for the best driving roads that God has graced us with. Dropping down into sixth gear and cruising for miles with pupils wide with all the caffeine overdosing; endlessly waiting for the next tunnel so that you can drop your window and knock it down a gear to spool up the turbo. Blasting through the mountain tunnels waiting for the crackle and bang from the rear end.
Although many would argue that the true GT car must have two doors and have a great big V12 screaming its way into the COCK-pit for the driver with tight white jeans from Louis Vuitton. No-one would turn down this opportunity, however, the true GT to me needs to be an understated, ‘sleeper’ as our cousins from burger central would call them. The greatest of any GT to me is a BMW touring, with its notorious stiff suspension, to give you the tight handling and ability to engage the loose real end. Working in tandem with the thunder of the V8 under the bonnet tearing its way down the long stretch of roads spanning between coasts.
Hot Hatch
To me this is and always will be the greatest genre of any car. The Hot Hatch truly is everything you need in the perfect driving experience. The short wheel base paired with the extra boost of power creates an orchestra of quick handling and short shifting.
Nevertheless, there is no real defining hot hatch, which is the true essence. Whether you are looking for quick and nimble handling like a Ford Fiesta ST, being able to stick it into a corner, going around your local roundabout outside Homebase knowing that you never really are going fast enough to send it through the timber isle. Or if you are looking for something that has a bit more power and grunt to it like the iconic Golf GTI, excusing the mark 3 and 4, to power you down the M1 staring at the PT cruiser sitting in the middle lane.
Sports Car
The two seater sports car is a pretty wide genre of car, there are so many cars on the market trying to claim the crown for the best two seater sports car on the road. As much those buzz cut mx-5 lovers may try to claim that it is the best two seater sports car, they would be right. However, this is not to say that there are some fantastic little two seaters out there that would give the Mazda a run for its money.
The little fizzy little engines that these light weight cars are fitted with are always fantastic fun. The two seats short wheel base frame allows them to dart from one corner to the other, being powered through by a relatively small little engine. They are required to have a sharp steering so that you can really get the most out of every moment of driving.
There are range of cars with their own respective owner, there is no need to go into too much detail about this. We know as petrol heads that a naturally aspirated V10 is powerful enough to kickstart the earths orbit. However, as a true petrol head, we also know that you are more likely to have more fun out of a small 2.0l turbocharged engine; as you can really put your foot on the throttle without turning the interior into a biological Jackson Pollock.
Power House
A "power house" is an extremely powerful and difficult to handle car, that's why we admire it. The terror of pushing its limits is what makes it so appealing. We like to believe that the true petrol-head, is someone who has never really grown up. Why else would we be so excited by the spits and bangs, the endless joy from sitting behind the wheel of our toys.
The toy of all toys that creeps its way into pride position on the driveway can come in all sorts of forms. A contender for this position is often the relentless barrage of German monsters. Whether it is an AMG Black series Mercedes. with a beast of a V8, caged under the swollen bonnet, or a BMW M5 possessed by an angry poltergeist. Or you venture into the world of Italian fire breeding dragons like a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ; maybe you have an endless pit of a wallet and you chose the truly berserk Pagani Huayra, where the designers are prescribed cocaine infused caffeine for breakfast.
There are a huge range of cars that contend but there is certainly a criteria that must be passed to be driven by a lunatic. Whether it is the car for the track or the roads, there is no real singular stomping ground where they belong. The one thing that we can determine from this species, is that it is to be a toy, if it is even close to being sensible, refined or comfortable then it isn’t a true lunatic mobile.
If its poster is on a bedroom wall, the streets of brixton or in a tire wall at the Nurburgring then it classifies. It must host enough power to tow a small building, and enough torque to reverse the earths rotation. Being lovers of speed and power, this is the car that no one approves of, accept you and your childish mind. But the question that it has to pass over any others, does it terrify the absolute living daylight out of anyone that sits in and has the bravery to even think about starting whatever create the engineers have imprisoned under the bonnet and force fed Xanax.
