Bilstein Shocks 24-016179 - 46mm Monotube Shock Absorber; 4600 Series; on 2040-parts.com

Tomorrow's world: lightweight carbon composites

Once all the dust settles on The Great Battery Farce (the idea that the world's ills will be taken care of by sticking a battery in everything that moves and charging it up) we may eventually face up to the fact that the best way to move something around more economically, is to move less of it. That means making things lighter, a lot lighter. Car makers are working on it and manufacturers like Audi and Jaguar have already become masters in bringing aluminium to the mass production.

Lotus Elise 2010 Facelift

The facelifted Lotus Elise will be at the Geneva Motor Show They don’t like to rush things too much at Hethel. Maybe it’s the pace of life in rural Norfolk or maybe they think that if “it ain’t broke why fix it?”. But the Lotus Elise has been round a very long time.

Concorso Italiano car show at Monterey Historics week 2013: in pictures

Every year as part of the Monterey Historics week there’s an Italian car gathering that’s grown to the point where it’s an international – unmissable – event. For 2013 the venue was the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch, just next to the race circuit – and what an incredible line up of cars there was. Alongside the predictable was the completely unpredictable.