Car Auto Design

Pickup trucks have always possessed a sense of ballsy gravitas about them, the steed of choice of the modern-day Marlboro man if he ditched his horse. For some, it’s about that active lifestyle image that a real manly pickup truck suggests. In many ways, Toyota’s Hilux pickup would do the Marlboro man proud. Bigger than a Mitsubishi Strada. Suddenly, leviathans like Nissan Patrols and Ford Expeditions seem smaller.

Pickup trucks have always possessed a sense of ballsy gravitas about them, the steed of choice of the modern-day Marlboro man if he ditched his horse. For some, it’s about that active lifestyle image that a real manly pickup truck suggests. In many ways, Toyota’s Hilux pickup would do the Marlboro man proud. Bigger than a Mitsubishi Strada. Suddenly, leviathans like Nissan Patrols and Ford Expeditions seem smaller.

Vauxhall presented yesterday in Rockingham, Northamptonshire the 2008 Vauxhall Vectra VXR BTCC race car. The highlight of the day was the new lap record set by the reigning BTCC Champion Fabrizio Giovanardi. He managed to improve his last year record of the track by more than half a second, lapping the circuit in 1m24.581s.