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Daily Driven: a Japan-based McLaren P1 commuter

13 July, 2016

If I were to say to you that you have one choice of car to make your daily commute in, in a city as congested as Tokyo, what would it be? For most, the criteria would include being small in size, affordable to run — maybe even a hybrid — automatic, and comfortable seating. Well, besides the excessive price tag, surprisingly the McLaren P1 fits most of the criteria — it’s even a hybrid that can cruise in full electric mode! Go Hiramatsu, a Tokyo-based lawyer, uses his McLaren as his daily driver, and come the weekends, he heads out into the mountains or to his nearest racetrack. So much respect for this guy! Enjoy the clip. 

Motorman – The saga of the Temple Buell Maseratis

30 January, 2026

Swiss-born Hans Tanner and American Temple Buell were apparently among the many overseas visitors who arrived in New Zealand for the Ardmore Grand Prix and Lady Wigram trophy in January 1959. Unlike Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Ron Flockhart, Harry Schell and Carroll Shelby who lined up for the sixth New Zealand Grand Prix that year, Tanner and Buell were not racing drivers but they were key players in international motor sport.
Neither the rotund and cheery Buell nor the multi-faceted Tanner were keen on being photographed and the word ‘apparently’ is used in the absence of hard evidence that Buell actually arrived in this country 64 years ago.

Luxury by design

15 January, 2026

How do you define luxury? To some it is being blinded with all manner of technological wizardry, from massaging heated seats to being able to activate everything with your voice, be it the driver’s side window or the next track on Spotify. To others, the most exorbitant price tag will dictate how luxurious a car is.
For me, true automotive luxury comes from being transported in unparalleled comfort, refinement, and smoothness of power under complete control. Forget millions of technological toys; if one can be transported here and there without the sensation of moving at all, that is luxury — something that is perfectly encapsulated by the original Lexus LS400. It was the first truly global luxury car from Toyota, and one that made the big luxury brands take notice.