Social spotlight 📱

This post is all about the colours and the aesthetic. There’s nothing more to it than that. The sky shining off the paintwork as the camera pans across the car 👌

Car of the week 💰

Remember these? I wouldn’t blame you if you said no. Honda released the ‘new’ NSX in 2016 and it cost around £150k brand new. It races to 60mph in around 3 seconds and continues up to 191mph, impressive stats. They mostly slipped under my radar, the modest looks don’t communicate the performance it’s capable of and the early use of hybrid tech wasn’t wholly appreciated at the time, with most people favouring pure combustion engines - by all accounts Honda did a great job of integrating the tech. If you had bought one, they’ve held their value quite well, all those listed on Auto Trader are still listed at more than £100k.

Small screen scene 📺

Evo have re-emerged on YouTube after a 7-month hiatus with this absolute humdinger; an LFA, a GTR Nismo and a 22B, what a line-up! Can you believe that at the time, Lexus actually struggled to sell the LFA? They were “only” £340k when new but examples have since sold for more than £1m, that’s an incredible appreciation given it’s less than 15 years old.

Hot off the press 📰

Remember this? The C-X75, designed by Callum, was unveiled at the 2010 Paris motor show and signed off for production in May 2011. However, it was axed the following year. Despite that, it featured in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, for which several stunt cars were built by Williams Advanced Engineering. A number of those cars ended up in the hands of collectors and, earlier this year, the Callum consultancy unveiled one such example that it had modified for road use. It has now followed this with a one-of-a-kind commission that goes even further, restoring much of the functionality that the C-X75 would have had if it made it to production. Another resto-mod? Kind of. Read more here.

Seen in the wild 👀

I spotted this 1973 Citroen SM parked up in North London, and I’d argue it’s as much a piece of art as it is a car, it’s so Citroen. I love that the number plate has its own little windscreen. It was revered in its day for being not only fast but also incredibly comfortable - credit to its self-leveling hydro-pneumatic suspension. They command a high price for a Citroen, with good examples costing at least £40k. Coincidentally, DS recently made a tribute to the SM called…the Tribute.