Question: What do makeup and Formula 1 have in common? The answer: Renée Jansen. Renée grew up watching Formula 1 with her dad, who’s a mechanic moonlighting as a racer. He’s the main inspiration behind her love for motorsport, and she still gets her regular dose of F1 history from him. She’s always been partial […]
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We all really enjoyed meeting Shawn and John from the Get Out N Drive Podcast, and their trailblazin’ ’68 Chevy christened Saddletramp, who travels all across the Home of the Brave in search of unique restoration projects and niche car stories. For this month’s classic car episode, in partnership with Car Facts Disc, we’ve got […]
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After a pretty grounded October edition, this month we’ll get a bit ‘Wacky’ with one of this author’s favourite childhood cartoons, The Wacky Races, a wonderful show full of hi-jinks, drama and nonstop action. Here’s November’s top 5 most iconic and unusual vehicles. The Gruesome Twosome – 02 The Creepy Coupe Starting off our list […]
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Mikaniki’s car of the month in partnership with Luxury Lifestyle The Aventador SVJ Roadster is a masterclass in aerodynamics. Its cutting-edge ALA 2.0 system and top-of-the-class aero-vectoring allows you to carve corners with greater elegance and to cruise at long distances with minimal drag. Spearheaded by a naturally aspirated 6.5-Liter V12 Multi-Point Injection engine mated […]
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Atlanta, Georgia. Home to CNN, the Centennial Olympic park, and avid race car driver, Simon Tibbett. With 23 wins, 43 podium finishes and 1 championship title under his belt, Simon’s obsession with racing starts with an insurance appraisal and a few magazines. Mikaniki went behind the scenes with the race car driver himself in an […]
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Road test. Ready? Get into your car, and drive in a straight line (no this isn’t an alcohol test, but similar). Notice your car pulling left or right? Or your steering wheel veering off to one side or the other and you have to pull it back up to centre it? Or can you maybe […]
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It’s 1983, and Tom Cruise rolls up to a fuel station in a ’79 Porsche 928. An attendant hobbles over to help fill ‘er up. Attendant: Nice ride, Tom! What’s it gunna be? Tom: Petrol, pronto. Thanks Fast forward to 2020. Tom Cruise rolls up to a fuel station in a BMW M5. The same […]
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Phoo-ey! I’m still reeling from last month’s Mad Max feature, which came jam packed with some insanely bizarre and utterly bad-ass rods! This time, however, we’re going to turn it down a notch, taking a dive into one of the best car flicks of the millennium. I’m of course talking about the 2000 remake of […]
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Hello, hello folks, it’s that time of the month again (not that time), when we give you the scoop on some truly astonishing rebirths in the car world! Last month, we dug into the iconic restoration of a 1930 International a la Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This month, in partnership with Car Facts Disc, we’re […]
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Back in August, Mikaniki explored Elon Musk’s claims of going completely driverless by next year, with a detailed account of the 5 stages of autonomous vehicles, where we briefly touched on some of the things that can (and have already) gone wrong with self driving cars. In this piece, we’ll be focusing specifically on some […]
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