Minis always make me laugh because I know that the person driving is having more fun than anyone else on the road just trying to maintain the speed limit. Last week was the Goodwood Revival and one of the vicarious highlights of my year: the Mini race. Even if you watch the first four minutes, you won’t be disappointed.
Reads:
⛽️ Rory Carroll is a fantastic writer and his review of both Cadillac Blackwing models was a joy to read straight through. Cadillac finally made the perfect performance sedans, without compromise, just in time [Jalopnik]
🐍 The story behind the Dodge Viper’s path to reality [Hagerty]
🏎 The Porsche 718 is going EV in 2025 [Car & Driver]
🧐 NYT Magazine makes some interesting points about Ford’s new ad campaign around their EV lineup — primarily that it’s not focused on climate change enough. The article quickly spirals into how we all need to change our driving habits. Kinda unfair as that’s a lot for one ad to do. In the end, does it matter how they sell a product that is better for the environment, as long as they do more of it? [NYT Magazine]
🌲 Speaking of… Ford partners with Redwood Materials and invests $50M to accelerate recycling battery systems [The Verge]
🏁 GT4-Pro driver Samantha Tan and her 2011 BMW 1M [Hypebeast]
🚐 From our friends at Lunch Reads: When a minivan becomes a music machine [NYT]
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The 991 generation GT3 Touring is going to go down as an all time great.
I don’t care what anyone says: the Ford GT still doesn’t get enough praise.
Base Porsches, then and now. How the 718 Cayman measures up to the 914.
This is one of my favorite races to watch every year. Especially around the 3 minute mark. Slow cars flat-out never get old.
Auction Finds of the Week
1967 Austin Mini Cooper S Mk1 — Now that you’re in the mood…
1973 Porsche 914 — not quite the same shade of yellow as above, but a rebuilt, bigger engine makes up for it.
1996 Corvette Grand Sport — only 540 miles! Comes with a scale model car!
1981 Honda Motocompo — continuing the “Honda is made up of insane product people” theme…