Spitfire to Slanted Car - Your weekly dose of automotive nourishment

A car that looks like it's constantly falling over

Social spotlight 📱

Your eyes don’t deceive you and your phone isn’t broken. This Renault 25 was created by an artist and is called the ‘Slanted Car’. Amazingly it’s still drivable.

Car of the week 💰

The BMW i3 is over 10 years old now, but still looks futuristic. It was a car launched before it’s time, really, and only now is being fully appreciated. It could be the perfect city car - able to drive on electric power alone but with the security of a range extender. They’re now available from as little as £5k, but it doesn’t take much more to get a nice example.

Small screen scene 📺

Praga is a Czech brand with over a century of history that has built everything from cars, buses, motorcycles and even aircraft. After a 68 hiatus from building cars, mainly focused on industrial and commercial vehicles, the brand revived its performance lineage with the Praga Bohema. Henry Catchpole checks it out for Hagerty.

Hot off the press 📰

Here’s a list that’s sure to divide opinion - Top Gear have collated their view of the top 6 best hot hatches…of all time! There are a few missing for me.

Seen in the wild 👀

Surely one of the best named British cars, the Triumph Spitfire. It was parked in central London on a sunny summer day and looked perfect, classy on its white walled tyres. This is the Spitfire 1500, which is the final and most powerful iteration of the Spitfire, although figures are still fairly modest. It looks like a car of this spec and condition would cost at least £10k.