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Blackbird Automotive: Audi Quattro S1 or Ford RS200? Why not both!?

23 October, 2016

Oh boy, why do these hard decisions have to come up? Do you prefer the gnarly sounding five-pot Quattro S1, or the more refined sound of the Ford RS200? Maybe it’s a looks thing? Well, Blackbird Automotive couldn’t decide either, so they made a video with both side by side spraying gravel, making chirp sounds, and just being generally kickass at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed. 

If I had to choose, it would no doubt be the Audi, but I would like to know what you think is better. Let me know in the comments section below. 

To finish first, first, you must build a winner

5 February, 2025

Can-Am royalty
Only three M20s were built, including the car that was destroyed at Road Atlanta. This car was later rebuilt. All three cars were sold at the end of the 1972 season. One of the cars would score another Can-Am victory in 1974, driven by a privateer, but the M20’s day was done. Can-Am racing faded away at the end of that season and was replaced by Formula 5000.
These days the cars are valued in the millions. It was unlikely that I would ever have seen one in the flesh if it hadn’t been that one day my editor asked me if I would mind popping over to Taranaki and having a look at a pretty McLaren M20 that somebody had built in their shed.
That is how I came to be standing by the car owned and built by truck driver Leon Macdonald.

Lunch with … Roly Levis

31 January, 2025

Lunching was not allowed during Covid 19 Lockdowns so our correspondent recalled a lunch he had with legendary New Zealand racing driver Rollo Athol Levis shortly before he died on 1 October 2013 at the age of 88. Michael Clark caught up with Roly and members of his family over vegetable soup