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Second Time Lucky?

This is Go Explore Camper’s second T6 demo van in short succession; customers keep insisting they want to buy them!

Me, My Van, And I

Keith Dockar, contacted us a while back, he sent us a few images of his van asking if we’d be interested in featuring his bus? We liked the pictures so much, that we asked him to do the shoot himself. Then, to cap it all off he sent the words in too. We have a feeling this isn’t the last time he’ll make an appearance in the magazine. Take it away Keith…

Mongolia or Bust

In this, the third instalment, Ian and Juliet contemplate the vastness of Russia whilst passing through Siberia, Mongolia is now in sight

The Driftwood Artisan

In the latest of our series of features where we go behind the curtain of some of our favourite businesses in the VW scene, we bring you The Driftwood Artisan

Long Haul Traveller

A multiple T5 and then T6 owner, Ed Jukes is now really feeling the love for his larger GT680 Crafter, despite the odd glitch

Diggin' The Scene

For some people a T5 is just a work vehicle, for others it’s just a daily driver. For the rest of us it can be an all-consuming and powerful expression of oneself

A Winter Adventure

The iconic North Coast 500 is an ever-present on many bucket lists. In this, the second instalment, Richard and Jackie Pickles complete their trip

2 into 4 will go

Racecar takes an in-depth look at M-Sport’s latest iteration of the R2 Fiesta, the Rally4

Lead from the front

Good teamwork requires much more than just a strong leader

Manipulating performance

Sandbagging is to BoP racing what spy shots are to a racecar engineer. Tempting as hell, not a necessity, but almost everyone feels the need to indulge

New or used?

Never has caveat emptor been more appropriate than in the case of a ‘pre-owned’ F1 car

Further diff-essentials

Deliberately introducing friction into the equation

New order

The ACO and IMSA recently released the regulation set that will govern the global platform top class prototype, and it has proven popular

The real thing?

Racing games now model a surprising amount of engineering, but how do they compare with advanced driver-in-loop simulators? Racecar investigates

Frame up

IndyCar will start its season with an Aeroscreen and, for the first time, Pankl reveals the 3D printing process behind the new device

Crisis talks

Racecar asks FIA President and UN Special Envoy for Road Safety his views on the future of motorsport after Covid-19

A starting guide to simulation and modeling clusters

When the smallest calculation can make all the difference, you need infrastructure you can trust to run your simulation and modeling workloads at scale

Holiday in the Sun

Why there’s never been a better time to take a staycation.

The Only Split in Town

Classic Volkswagens buses have long held a fascination for Wez Cooper, but given their ever-escalating cost, he wasn’t sure that he’d ever be able to afford one.

The Science and Art of Powder Coating

Perhaps without even realising, everyone has items around them which have been powder coated; patio furniture, bicycles, even fire extinguishers.

“Oh Sandy, Maybe Someday...”

‘A friend of mine from ‘Dubs in LAW’ (Leigh & Wigan) had heard on the grapevine about two split-screen buses stored in a barn up in Lancashire’.

Back to the Future... In a Jurgens!

“We were looking for something with a little more room than the ’78 Bay which we’d owned for the previous 12 years”

Dobry Djen Kaliningrad!

Visiting the Russian exclave last summer turned into the “Icing on the Baltic Travelling Cake”.

Dog Rough!

Robin and Lucy Grosvenor were married in the spring of 2015. They hired a split screen camper to be their wedding car & honeymoon transport, and changed their lives.

Now For Something Completely Different.

A T6 specifically designed to achieve two very disparate tasks, so to paraphrase the inimitable Monty Python...

Campervan Heroes

Stuart and Helen spent a year travelling from Morocco to Iceland in their VW T3, writing about it each week on their blog at campervanmatters.com This is their top 10 list of ‘hero’ stuff to pack for a year on the road.

A New England, Devon

The previous owner traded this bus in against a Volvo, and it appears that the dealer had no idea what it was or what to do with it.

ERF Angel

When this EC Olympic was involved in a bad accident, it was almost certainly bound for the scrapyard in the sky. Until some divine interfention…

Gee Gee G-cab

When you transport horses worth up to £1.5 million, only the best will do - and that’s exactly what Eric Gillie’s new Scania G500 is

Hue & cry

Time out at the wheel of an early Actros reveals that not a lot has changed over 23 years… apart, maybe, from more tasteful cab trim