Shot of the Day

Sep 11, 2012 James Gent

Shot of the Day. Lying In Wait

Anybody who knows anything about the Nissan GTR – and this being crankandpiston, chances are fairly high you already do – will…

Sep 10, 2012 James Gent

The setting sun glinting off the paintwork of a Ferrari 599, an F40 and a couple of Daytonas signals the end of…

Sep 9, 2012 Phil McGovern

The General Lee is generally acknowledged as one of the cooler automotive TV stars out there. We can waste time collating a…

Sep 6, 2012 James Gent

For the first few seconds, you may be wondering what the store in the background can ‘eliver’. Hopefully not too much…

Sep 5, 2012 James Gent

Tasty, bags of character, and everyone wants one. Either that or a choc-ice. The non-sweet-toothed among you though may be looking at…

Sep 4, 2012 James Gent

Remember Speedcars? First launched back in 2007, the Speedcar Series was a one-make stock-car racing program based in the Middle East that…

Sep 3, 2012 James Gent

Safe to the say the stopping power of those ceramic bad boys will be pretty impressive. And if that won’t ruin most…

Sep 2, 2012 James Gent

Turns out a wing and prayer doesn’t always get the job done. Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur (phew!) is known for making some distinctively styled…

Aug 30, 2012 James Gent

We’re no strangers to the Ferrari F12berlinetta at crankandpiston: we’ve seen it from the front, back, side, from above, in motion and…

Aug 29, 2012 James Gent

In the white corner, the BMW E92 M3: a 4.0l V8 stapled under the bonnet, 414hp, 100kph from standstill in just 4.7s,…

Aug 28, 2012 James Gent

The butterflies will have kicked in badly by now. Ahead lies nothing but straight tarmac, with nary a kink nor twist to…

Aug 27, 2012 James Gent

I know what you’re thinking. It is pretty amazing isn’t it? I mean 550hp, a 5.4l supercharged V8, 0-100kph demolished in 3.2s,…