Peter Farr's Blog

The US Marines and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have been quietly developing the innocuous sounding LS3 a truly scary r...

The owner should remember what William Blake wrote in Songs.. A robin red breast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage:   The owner of a ...

Hi, How are you and your family doing? hope you all are fine and in a best of health. Andrew, Nicola and Brian are fine and doing well wh...

Good lord they all turn into BMWs! It’s called “The Host” and it’s all depressing sci-fi future, with the usual aliens taking over the wh...

Well I suppose it was only a matter of time before our abhorrent, antiquated and class-based honours system raised its ugly head.  It is vit...

Ken Block: Awesome as usual  

This is really quite neat...from Endgadget

     

The elves from Munich just can’t seem to help themselves.  Aimed at overweight middle-aged inadequates?

  For Brazil being a BRIC doesn't seem to mean that you will have your own flag carrier airline.  First Varig went leaving TAM which h...

Australia beat Wales 20-19 in the Third Test held in Sydney to complete a three match whitewash on the current tour sending them homeward to...

This morning we had a wonderful and unexpected congregation of, for us, uncommon birds.  First I saw a Bullfinch on the arbour but almost im...

Now that’s something; stylish and quick.  What could be better? Filed under: Aftermarket , Concept Cars , Performance , Hatchback , Ferrar...

Who said BMWs are all the same.  Here’s a dozen different models all distinctive and totally unalike:

Here is another new Beamer.  It’s like so different from anything that they’ve ever done before. Other than this sentence the narrative is...

These changes are fundamental, extensive and exciting.  Maybe we will once more able to say “racing improves the breed” Filed under: Motor...

I have previously blogged that all BMWs now seem to look the same.   Well it would appear that the contagion has spread and infected Aston M...

This will be good news to many.  The perpetrators of Flame, the covert reconnaissance trojan outed last week after 5 years of unknown activi...

Having staged a drag race between a Veyron and a Typhoon which the Veyron lost comprehensibly they have staged another between an Aventador...

Toyota is amongst a rush of punters to be tackling Pikes Peak, the world’s toughest hill climb…being on the outer edge of insanity.  Also go...

I have blogged before about Stuxnet and argued that we need to put more resources into cyber warfare .   Now, at last it would appear that ...

  Congratulations for winning the Monaco Grand Prix with a flawless drive.  Often underrated Mark is now equal second on the Formula Drive...

  Baroness Warsi thinks she needs to be thick skinned.  Most of us think she needs to be honest. From the BBC The co-chair of the Conser...

  This project, supported by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust aims to restore the Short Haired Bumblebee to residency in the UK.  The sho...

  From the BBC Lawyers for radical Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada will return to court later to argue he should be released from prison on b...

At last the elves from Bavaria have managed to produce something that is different from the rest and actually looks good!  Albeit with just ...

It’s been a long time coming but at last we know what the incomparable Caribou replacement will be. And I heartily approve, believing from ...

Ken Block gets more amazing all the time.  This is his most recent offing: Gymkhana Four.  How does he do it?  Watch it yourself and be amaz...

   Now look here…this is your rifle, this is your gun.  One is for fighting, this one’s for…….. Photo by Mark Owens./Army HQ Scotland. Pho...

It looks like the MoD has done it again.  Why should we endure austerity when the MoD is effectively flushing our money down the toilet in...