This is the third year running, that we at Motor have worked with Ceylon Motor Sports Club in organizing the Historic Car event at Mahagastotte. This event was started as a Support event for the main Mahagastotte Festival of Speed Hill Climb which usually happens on the week-end prior to the Traditi ...
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Vega, Sri Lanka’s own Electric Supercar has been making the news in the past few weeks. As I write this, the car is on the way to Geneva for the world reveal at the Motor Show starting 5th March. Truly a Sri Lankan startup, the Vega project has the potential to put Sri Lanka well and truly on ...
Pickup trucks have been defined in exactly the same way for almost 100 years, with a three-box design encompassing a bonnet, a cabin, and a bed. 2019 is the year that seems to have changed all that. Now comes the Tesla Cybertruck, trying not only to disrupt the industry, but to do so in probably the ...
Most motoring purists including me, have been dreading the impending domination of the electric car. Most of us could not get our heads around the fact that RPM, Turbo Boost and Exhaust Note were being replaced with Torque-at-any-speed and Silence when you floored the pedal! Well in Sri Lanka at lea ...
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about future classics. What got me going was Dayan Fernando’s piece this month about Fiat 1100’s. It was in the year that I was born, when my father bought his brand new Fiat 1100. There is even an old photo of me sitting inside the boot of the car a ...