Lifestyle
Why South Carolina is BMW’s secret weapon
By 2016, BMW’s Spartanburg plant will be the company’s largest anywhere in the world, churning out almost half a million cars a…
South Carolina
Lifestyle
Race
Longest Continuous Drift. New Guinness World Record Holder
Abdo Feghali’s Guinness World Record is broken, with Johan Schwartz and BMW drifting continuously for almost 83km in Greenville, USA. Well that…
Road
New VW Passat. Travel Blog. Red White And Blue, Take Two
Deja vu, right? After all, it seems like only yesterday that crankandpiston was jetting off to the USA for an international car…
Road
Infiniti JX35. Travel Blog. Kippers For Breakfast, Part Two
With a leisurely stroll around Charleston and a howdy-do to my genial hosts already under my belt, I’m ready to take Infiniti’s…
Road
Infiniti JX35. Travel Blog. Kippers For Breakfast, Part One
I’ve just arrived in the USA for Infiniti’s launch of the new JX35, and so far things haven’t exactly gone to plan.…
Lifestyle
Pasttimesigns. Automotive Metal Signs. Choices To Make
There’s still space on the wall at crankandpiston – yes we thought those Automotive Retro Prints would do the job too –…