• Snorkel, winches... missile launcher? Here's my mad homebuilt 4x4

    Snorkel, winches... missile launcher? Here's my mad homebuilt 4x4
    This Frankenstein's monster of a vehicle is based on a Suzuki, but you wouldn't know itAndy Racher's dinky-size 4x4 is an example of what happens when you give two blokes a welding torch and a load of thin-gauge tubular steel - and absolutely no idea what to make with them. 
    "My late dad, who was a welder, and I fabricated a tubular frame, making it up as we went along," explains Andy, who has an engineering background. "Whatever we decided at the time, we did. What you see is simply the re
  • Is Alfa Romeo the only brand that can sell cars for £30k and £1.4m?

    Is Alfa Romeo the only brand that can sell cars for £30k and £1.4m?
    Line-up ranges from Junior to 33 Stradale hypercar - but not everyone could achieve that spreadWhich brands, a colleague wondered, could retail a car at under thirty grand but also, like Alfa Romeo, launch a limited-edition, several-million-pound supercar?
    Alfa Romeo won't quote a price for the new 33 Stradale, so it's impossible to know for sure how much it costs. Tragically, it's not on the regular model configurator.
    I saw a build slot for one of the 33 examples advertised at £3.5m, but
  • 243mph on public roads: meet the world's maddest motorsport event

    243mph on public roads: meet the world's maddest motorsport event
    The Silver State Challenge is a motorsport event like no other. We head to Nevada to join inThere aren't many places left where you can legally drive at more than 200mph on a public road. I've come to one of the remaining few.
    Twice each year, the Silver State Classic Challenge closes a vast section of Nevada's Route 318 and transforms it into the world's fastest public road motorsport course. No barriers. No run-off. No catch fencing. Just endless desert, distant mountains and a strip of Tarmac