Kieran Rennie

With expertise in automotive reviews, events and motorsport, this is an overview of my published work. Whilst accurate & factual, I adopt an individual writing style, combining my passion for the sector with my insights. I'm informative and engaging.  

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This Is The Custom Car Builder Everyone Forgot

The automotive world is brim-full of car customizers. Whether it be a solo enthusiast, personalizing his daily, or an established organization charging top dollar to re-shape, re-spray and modernize a muscle car, car customization is big business. For every company that’s taken the time to build a car, you can be sure there’s a thousand guys or girls with ideas on how to make it look cooler. In fact, an entire industry has developed in support of the passion and fixation for turning a regular c
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The Mid-Engined, Twin-Turbo Beetle That Isn't American (Or European)

There are few cars whose life story is as layered and as colorful. With a production run that lasted 65 years – 1938 - 2003 – the VW Beetle is the first car to top the 20 million sales mark. Built originally at the behest of Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, the Beetle’s designer, a certain Ferdinand Porsche, had a simple mandate: a four-seat car, simple to maintain, rugged enough for farm tracks and capable of highway cruising, yet priced so that every family in Germany could own one. Post-war Europe
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Here's Why The Koenigsegg Regera Doesn't Have A Gearbox

Speed is dead, right? And fun (in a car) is forgotten. We seem to be inching – at 25mph – toward a soulless, prescribed, and terrifyingly bland motoring future. Increasing traffic volumes, growing pedestrian numbers, and shrinking road space are pushing average speeds, especially in the urban areas, lower. Furthermore, our collective, maturing conscience demands that we protect and preserve life in every way imaginable. The reckless abandon that used to govern our attitudes toward road safety h
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Dare to Be Different – A Closer Look At The Maserati Quattroporte S Q4

The story of Maserati is as quintessentially family-built passion as any in the automotive world. Henry Ford evolved from a simple farmer’s son to a self-taught, groundbreaking engineer. His mechanical genius and industrial foresight inspired him to mass-produce the world’s first practical, affordable, and readily available motorcar. Or Enzo Ferrari, who, with very little formal education, rose from a failed family carpentry business on to a lowly test driver’s job and then further forward to a
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The Rebirth Of The Greatest Formula 1 Car Of All Time

The most common gripe of the modern Formula 1 era is the dominance of Mercedes-Benz – the lack of on-track competition. From very early on in the season, both Ferrari and Red Bull showed themselves to be lacking in overall pace, and the 2020 Constructor’s Championship was almost a foregone conclusion. The only question was whether Bothas could challenge Hamilton for the Driver’s Title. The answer to that question also became evident all too quickly. The truth is, Formula 1 has often been domina
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How The XK140 Brought Jaguar Forward

The list of classic British, 2-seater sports cars is a long one, and very few names light fires in the eyes and reviews of expendable income more than Jaguar. Jaguar's early roots were laid in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company. They built motorcycle sidecars before turning their talents to creating bodies for passenger cars. S. S. Cars Limited was the next development and in association with Standard Motor Co, the company extended its operations to building complete cars. Jaguar was a model n
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Restomods. Some Brilliant, Some Blasphemous. You Decide!

The automotive industry, once again, is facing a watershed moment. I say once again because, as we know, this is not the first time in the development of the automobile that the gas (petrol) vs. electric debate has flared up. Let's delve a little deeper into the history of EVs. Around 1890, William Morrison – a chemist from Des Moines – introduced America’s first successful electric car. Other manufactures began popping up across the U.S. New York City operated a fleet of more than 60 electri
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These Four-Pot, Rental Regulars Will Go Door To Door With A HEMI Dodge Charger

Gone are the days of the asthmatic, all-pants-no-trousers, American V8 lumps. CNC engineering, lightweight materials, and a general increase in know-how mean that modern US V8s are up on power, down on emissions, and long on reliability. But, peel back that wafer-thin veneer, chip away the fragile façade and the cracks reappear. Consider, if you will, the current Mac-Daddy – the new mid-engine Corvette C8. It still utilizes a cross-plane engine design. Granted, in the hands of the kilowatt-wiza
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