April 7, 2011

The sexy-fast car with the frumpy name – Gumpert – is now available in small-scale from Siku

BlogBy webmin April 7, 2011

We’ve oft lamented in this space that toy companies seem to be doing the same cars over and over again – four 3-inch Porsche Panameras have been announced for 2011, for example – so when we see something new, we celebrate. Siku has done exactly this with its new Gumpert Apollo. The Apollo has been […]

Orange County and the vehicles that ply its roads

BlogBy webmin April 7, 2011

We don’t really need a reminder of how widespread the automobile became in Southern California, especially after World War II. But after flipping through the Flickr stream of the Orange County Archives, it becomes abundantly clear how dependent Southern California became on the automobile so quickly. Many of the scenes in the collection that show […]