AUSmotive.com – Hanging on for dear life

What’s so special about the 1981 British Grand Prix? It was the first race won by a car with a carbon fibre composite chassis.
That car was the McLaren MP4/1, on that day it was driven by John Watson. In the video below you can hear the car’s designer John Barnard talk about his creation and its lasting effect on the safety of the F1 cars we watch today....

Before Donut Media got morphy with the BMW 3 Series they went all blurry-eyed with the Porsche 911. If ever there was a car made for such an animation it is the iconic 911. Well done lads, well done!
[Source: Donut Media]

The very clever chaps at Donut Media have given us the morphtastic animation of the BMW 3 Series. We applaud them and thank the for sharing it with the world.
If you’d like to buy a poster charting the lineage of the 3 Series the Donut lads have you covered there too....

The mighty Golf R400 project has been put on indefinite hold thanks to the financial fallout from Volkswagen’s deiselgate saga. At least that’s the word coming from motoring.com.au.
According to the Aussie based website a senior Volkswagen source has confirmed with them that R400 has been “paused” along with “several other projects”....