• Totalitarian chic: from an exhibition of Intourist posters advertising (among other things) adventurous driving holidays in the former USSR. Held at the new GRAD Gallery, 3-4a Little Portland Street, London W1W until 31 August. Partial repro of ‘Georgian Military Highway’ by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, 1939.

    Daily Brief 19 June 2013

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  • Forty eight Rolls Royce Silver Ghosts, including one of the modern incarnation, have set off on the recreation of the 1913 Alpine Trial. Currently in Austria, having already tackled the 27% Katschberg Pass, the cars will no proceed to Italy and Slovenia. Keep up to date with the action via the links above.

    Daily Brief 18 June 2013

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  • 'Looking forward to driving down this stretch of road at over 300kph in a few days time!' tweeted racing driver and F1 pundit @AntDavidson over the weekend. It is of course the Le Mans 24 Hours on Saturday. Scrutineering started yesterday with practice and qualifying due to start Wednesday. Click the link above for the official website.

    Daily Brief 17 June 2013

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    Daily Brief 14 June 2013

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  • The new Porsche 911 GT3 has been driven for the first time and not even a quibble about the lack of a manual gearbox has stopped Chris Harris calling it a 'masterpiece'. Click the link above for the video.

    Daily Brief 13 June 2013

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  • Porsche has completed the shake down test of its new LMP1 Prototype Le Mans car at it recently expanded Weissach testing facilities near Stuttgart. Cute.

    Daily Brief 12 June 2013

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  • The 2013 Swiss motorway vignette, available to buy at the border for 40CHF (£28) or €32.50. Valid from December of the year previous to end of January the year after. Annoyingly has special adhesive on reverse which means it cannot be taken of and reused.

    Swiss campaign attacks motorway fee hike and ‘cheap’ tourist vignette

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  • Sarajevo - taxi drivers have joined protestors in an enduring, well attended but so far peaceful demonstration against the govt’s inability to issue identity documents to babies. The protest started last Wednesday. The situation is emblematic of the political deadlock inside the country, organised strictly along ethnic lines. Photo: © Twitter/ @andymcguffie, EU spokesman for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    Daily Brief 11 June 2013

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    Brussels parking fine: denouement

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    Daily Brief 10 June 2013

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