Social spotlight 📱

I checked and double-checked because I couldn’t quite believe my eyes, but yes, that’s a jet-engined kei truck! It’s the crazy creation of engineer and ‘jet engine enthusiast’ Nick Clark. He also has a YouTube channel where he documents some of his crazy (dangerous) builds.

Car of the week 💰

Rarer than you think, the Fiat 124 sold terribly in the UK, only registering 3,000 units over 4 years with the Abarth 124 lagging further behind. Heavily based on the well-regarded Mazda MX-5 but with some Italian flair, the Abarth 124 offers an affordable (£15k), fun and rare route in to open-top motoring. With so few on the roads, they may just hold onto their value too.

Website of the week 💻

Off the back of last week’s video about the Little Car Company’s Bentley Blower Jnr, I’m putting them back in the spotlight with their full-sized Tamiya Wild One MAX. This is an electric, fully road-legal buggy, based on Tamiya’s popular 1/10 scale R/C car released in 1985. Hard to imagine a new car which has a greater sense of fun and occasion available for £35k.

Small screen scene 📺

Not quite as wild as the jet engined kei truck, but heading in that direction…Peden Conceptz have bodyswapped a Rover Metro bodyshell onto a Porsche Boxster chassis (ok you have my attention) and are now fitting a fiberglass body kit styled on the famous MG Metro 6R4 rally car, he’s calling it the Metro CarreR4. Very good, very good.

Seen in the wild 👀

Very rarely seen in the wild, this TVR Sagaris was parked in the road close to the Chelsea Truck Company’s dealership, maybe the owner was shopping for something else equally as lairy but a little bigger? This has been one of my favourite cars ever since it was released in the mid-2000’s, the outlandish styling with rear-mounted, side-exit exhausts and a thunderous soundtrack to match makes this quite a unique proposition. Based on what’s currently available on the market, you’ll need a spare £70k to join the shortlist of owners.