Articles by Freddie Skeates
19/12/18
Just in time for Christmas-time procrastination. In fact it’s been so popular today that the site crashed. It’s back up now though, so here is what I’ve come up with
09/09/18
My burger is very underwhelming - it cost me £8 and is of comparable quality to ones you got for school lunch. Just as I'm scorning over this the unique Lister-Costin Coupe screams past, but this time not a scream from the engine but from the tires as it does a full 360 pirouette right in front of me.
03/09/18
Built by Lorenz & Rankl I think
22/08/18
Apple’s Portrait Mode, which utilises the second camera on the iPhone 7 & 8 Plus and X to create a depth of field effect, is great for taking hi-res portraits of people. But, with enough depth, it can be effectively used for pretty much any macro shot. You’ll see here that in most cases it works pretty well, and in some cases doesn’t make too much of a difference. It’s a very sensitive and pretty temperamental system, requiring lots of screen-tapping to get the focus right. And iPhones are hard enough to hold still as it is.
22/02/18
“Porsche engineers were benchmarking the 997 GT2 at the ‘Ring in 2007. They had a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera and a Ferrari 599 GTB. Walter Rohrl was setting the lap times. “He went out in the Lamborghini first, then the Ferrari. When he came back from setting the lap time in the 599, he had a huge smile on his face, according to one of the engineers. “The engineer asked him what he was smiling about. Rohrl explained that halfway around the lap he had seen another 599 a few corners ahead. He said to himself, ‘I will catch that other 599.’
18/10/17
https://twitter.com/romanscars/status/920569957599141888
24/09/17
I own a lot of cars in this game. 254, to be exact, and that’s after selling a bunch at the auction. Strangely enough I like keeping many of my cars stock (rare, I know), but I love a good modify too, though I tend to skip the whole stick-a-twin-turbo-V12-with-AWD-in-it-and-be-done-with-it insanity phase and i keep them a little more realistic. So here’s 24 of my cars you might find interesting #blogpost
04/07/16
Many people aren’t convinced by the show’s current layout, but many are by Chris Harris, and I think it may be down to his similarities with Clarkson…
30/05/16
“There’s no chemistry between them, it’s so awkward” True, but the key word you’ve not inserted here is yet . Rome wasn’t built in a day, and as they gain experience filming alongside each other, they’ll get to know each other, there’ll be inside jokes and the programme will flow a lot better. It’s unnatural now, but have a little patience people.
04/04/16
DISCLAIMER: before you spam the comments with cars from previous years, this post is about ONLY cars from 2016 Beauty is naturally subjective, so feel free to put your own suggestions in the comments below
11/03/16
First and foremost, they specialize in Nissan R35 GTR tuning and upgrades Severn Valley Motorsports, founded in Ironbridge in you guessed it, the Severn River valley in the UK, have been modifying cars for over 30 years. But of course, it wasn’t always GTRs.
09/01/16
The Edonis is widely known (by the few who remember it) as the car the EB110 should have been. Released 14 years ago, though you couldn’t tell by its exotic, albeit subjective styling, by the Italian B Engineering, a company formed by a small group of former Bugatti employees from when they went bankrupt in 1995, hence the ‘B’ standing for Bugatti.
07/01/16
You will have- A car in the 200mph club A car with under 200bhp A car that was released/revealed less than 200 days ago A car that costs less than $200k (£183k) Go!
17/08/15
Everyone’s been skeptical of this at one point, but Ferrari’s and Porsche’s prancing horse, are the same horse. Well known WWI Italian air ace Francesco Baracca first put a prancing horse surrounded by yellow on his plane when he shot down a German pilot over Stuttgart, the birthplace of Porsche, as a mark of respect to his fallen, but worthy enemy, and so the horse became a part of Stuttgart’s coat of arms, and so later on making it into Porsche’s emblem.