Tom Harrison

Buying and owning a Lamborghini Reventon is easy. That why this chap built his own....

Ever thought the Lamborghini Aventador was more ‘Moo’ than raging bull? Oakley did

Pay attention Ford fans strong, the Blue Oval’s just released a slew of new cars in what it's calling the biggest product offensive ever

Ford's baby 1.0-litre 3-pot has been put to very good use in this street-legal racer

Rolls-Royce has unveiled the Phantom Aviator Collection - 35 Coupés with bespoke detailing reminiscent of Charles Rolls's Supermarine S6B, one of the 1930s fastest aircraft . No, Not the sunglasses. Rolls himself was a committed aviator, “ Our founding forefather Charles Stewart Rolls was a pioneer who pushed the boundaries of motoring and aviation to the limit ”, said Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Rolls-Royce CEO. Rolls died in 1910 - the first Briton ever to be killed in a plane crash.

Ugly 1) Unpleasant or repulsive, especially in appearance, or: 2) Involving or likely to involve violence or other unpleasantness. So this is the Tornado 750 GTS, Porsche tuner Gemballa Automobiltechnik's latest Cayenne mutation. It's been around since 2009, but to be honest, we weren't paying attention. Oops. It was conceived, they say, to satisfy "the large amount of requests for a high performance sports car with the dimensions and the spacious interior of an SUV". Righty-ho.

The Editor-in-Chief of Estonia’s edition of Top Gear Magazine has died in a car accident

To honour the 50 th anniversary of the Shelby Cobra , and pay tribute to its late creator, a group of companies including Ford, Ford Racing and Shelby American, but collectively known as the “Friends of Carroll Shelby”, have come together to build a one-of-a-kind 2013 Mustang GT500.

Will.I.Am's not been having a good time of it recently. First, he creates a crap car. Then, said crap car gets nicked. Karma?

McLaren will debut the MP4-12C Can-Am Edition at this weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance . It’s a comprehensively re-worked version of the carmaker’s existing GT3 racer, albeit free from FIA regulation and therefore better in every measurable way. Boom shakalaka.

Good news for learners. RED Driving School and insurance company Provisional Marmalade have joined forces to offer aspiring drivers pay-as-you-go fully-comp insurance policies for as little as £85 per month .

It’s been a little over a year since Alfa Romeo’s diminutive 4C Concept made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show, but Autocar Magazine can only now confirm that the two-door coupé will give birth to a convertible version around a year after its initial launch . Ka-boom.

You may’ve heard that East London is currently hosting a minor, inconsequential sporting competition . I know, who’d have thought? Apparently, we’re doing rather well too. A healthy collection of gold medals has propelled us to third place in the BBC’s Medal Table, behind China and the USA (in first and second places respectively), and just ahead of South Korea. I am, of course, talking about the Olympics. But you already knew that. It’s on the telly... constantly.

By now, Londoners will undoubtedly be familiar with the multitude of be-stickered BMWs currently flitting about the East-End and conspicuously flying down deserted “Games Lanes” past hapless punters and steely-eyed cabbies alike - all to a chorus of callous cussing and extended middle fingers.

Happy Monday Car Throttlers, and welcome to the ultimate edition of Beauty & The Beast . This week Bertone finds itself under the spotlight... In case you’d forgotten,  Beauty & The Beast  celebrates Italian design houses and the contribution they’ve made to automotive design as a whole by looking at some of their most beautiful creations. But that’s not all. No designer can boast a complete range of flawless designs, so we’ll also be checking out the ugly ducklings.

It’s Monday so you know what that means Car Throttlers . Yep, it’s time for the eagerly anticipated third instalment of Beauty & The Beast . This week, we’ll be putting Zagato under the microscope. In case you’d forgotten, Beauty & The Beast celebrates Italian design houses and the contribution they’ve made to automotive design as a whole by looking at some of their most beautiful creations. But that’s not all. No designer can boast a complete range of flawless designs, so we’ll also be checking out the ugly duckings.

A stolen 1967 Austin Healey has been reunited with its rightful owner - after 42 years . 66 year-old Robert Russell, a retired sales manager from Texas, spotted the Healey - which he bought for $3000 from a mate in 1968 - on eBay in May. Russell called the dealer in Beverly Hills, but negotiations were fraught, with them eventually agreeing to sell him the car for $24,000 even though he still possessed all of the original documentation and keys.

Gig..., Guig..., Giugiaro? Is that right? Yes, I think it is . Anyway, welcome Car Throttlers to Beauty & The Beast: Part Two. This week, we’ve turned our attention to, you guessed it, Giorgetto Giugiaro and ItalDesign - the design house he founded in 1968 after brief spells at Bertone and Ghia.

Bad news - there’s still no Up! GTI, no Citigo VRS, and no Mii Cupra R . As such, for the time being, diet hot-hatch fans’ll have to make do with this - the SEAT Mii Vibora Negra. Look familiar? It should - SEAT pulled the wraps of its Mii FR concept in Austria a couple of months back, and this is the closest we'll get to it in production form, at least for the moment...

Kenny from the Block (if you don’t know who we’re talking about, leave...) has just outed the latest installment in his illusive tyre-shredding Gymkhana franchise - and it’s AWESOME. The fifth installment in the franchise sees Block tearing up San Francisco’s surface streets in his loyal Hybrid Fusion Hoon Vehicle (HFHV) - which itself makes a welcome return from the Hollywood-land epic that was GYM4.

Sergio Pininfarina - the 85 year-old honorary chairman of the Italian design house that bares his name - died at his home in Turin last week . His accession to the top job in 1966 heralded a new beginning for the company; it’s since designed and built some of the world’s most beautiful machines.

There’s a new £190,000 V12 Aston Marting flagship, and it’s a resurrection of one of the best names in the business - Vanquish.

What do you get if you add SVT to RS? Letters, more letters and 'ST', apparently . Not RSSVT, SVRTS or whatever else - but ST. This latest acronym (because what the car industry really needs is another acronym - I could just tell them all to F-O personally), I’m told, stands for “Sporting Technology”. I’m also told that this latest ST was a joint effort between the guys at Ford’s Team RS in Europe, and the SVT blokes in Dearborn who’ve been responsible for the madcap RS500 and a host of Mustangs respectively.

Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer’s Conference doesn’t usually bother us petrolheads too much.  We might catch-up with the event’s goings-on the next day, just to see how long we’ve got before our brand-spanking-new iPhone’s out of date again, but for the most part it’s not that big a deal.