The Road Rat Issue 21 is here. A love letter to Formula 1, presented by the world’s most beautiful car magazine. Including a foreword by Max Verstappen. Exclusive photo shoots with seven World Champions and pinnacle cars from the sport's history, plus rarely seen historic images and contributors including Zak Brown, Mark Webber, Richard Mille and the Duke of Richmond, all paying tribute to 75 years of F1.
The Road Rat Issue 20 is here. A unique collaboration between the world’s most beautiful and respected car magazine and the makers of the world’s most desirable cars.
The Road Rat Issue 19. The nineteenth edition of world’s most beautiful car magazine is here. Stories include; the rise and fall and rise again of McLaren.
The Road Rat Issue 18 is here and goes deep into the technology, culture, history and myth of some of the most-evolved cars of all; from Ferrari 250 GTO to Gordon Murray T.50 — seven decades of cars too rarified to be simply ‘supercars’.
The Road Rat Issue 17 — aka ‘Tales from Japan’ — is the latest Road Rat special to devote its entirety to getting under the skin of one subject. The cover star is the delicate and beautiful Toyota 2000GT and it’s joined inside by a study of the Kei car phenomena, Mazda’s rotary-engine endurance cars, the very different Toyotas Century and Land Cruiser plus your guide to subcultures from cosplaying itasha to street-racing kanjozoku.
The Road Rat Issue 16 has arrived. A Porsche Turbo bonanza, with Mel Nichols on driving the very first 911 Turbo in 1974 and exclusive access for The Road Rat to Porsche's archive and many more to discover in The Road Rat Issue 16.
The Road Rat Issue 15 is here. The Ferrari F40 is coming to The Road Rat. Angus MacKenzie, former Editor-in-Chief at Motor Trend has researched and written a brilliant, 22-page portrait of the insanely quick, bloody-minded final car of Enzo Ferrari.
The Road Rat Issue 14 is here and dedicated to celebrating the greatest race of them all. We’ve ripped up the format of the publication, replacing it with a photo-driven scrapbook of the event capturing its many moods, punctuated by The Road Rat’s traditional long-form features and commissioned visuals from the likes of Ashley Border and Paul Howse.
The Road Rat Issue 13 is here. A unique collaboration with Norman Foster, arguably world’s greatest living architect. Topics covered include: The lasting influence on Porsche of the 356; how aerodynamics has obsessed car makers since Walt Chrysler hired Wilbur Wright; the E-Type and Pagoda effect; how the great artists see cars; and many more.
The Road Rat Issue 12 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Edition 12 of world’s most beautiful car magazine is here. Inside, on 244 high-quality, art-grade mixed papers, you’ll find: the astonishing origin story of the hot-rodding movement; the last Ferrari sportscar to race at Le Mans; how the XJ-S is shaping Jaguar’s future (and the Grandsphere concept, Audi’s); why F1 drivers look the way they do today; plus Sebastian Vettel and Edoardo Webber.
The Road Rat Issue 11 features the original BMW M colours on the front and back covers and over 20 pages of BMW M1 origin story by writer Richard Meaden. Also between the covers there’s Maserati, Matra, Ford F-Series pickup, Enzo Ferrari’s original V12, unseen images from Goodwood in the 1950s, and Paul Bracq, designer of the W113-series Mercedes SL, in the regular Retrospective feature.
The Road Rat Issue 10 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Featuring VFX artist Josh George’s stunning ‘digitally sculpted portrait’ of Enzo Ferrari on the cover and a detailed examination of the Commendatore’s complex relationship with son Dino and the car that carried his name in place of Ferrari’s. Plus Porsche, IndyCars, Lotus, Giugiaro, Saab and Villeneuve.
The Road Rat Issue 9 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Featuring former Motor Trend editor Angus MacKenzie’s deep dive into the extraordinary Honda NSX. Inside there’s also Richard Meaden on European Touring Cars, Martin Scorsese, Jerry Seinfeld, Bentley’s R-Type Continental and Prince Jefri of Brunei.
The Road Rat Issue 8 is here. Award-winning writer Jamie Kitman spent three months interviewing dozens for his profile of Elon Musk. Plus why everyone wants a bit of the Ferrari 250 SWB. And… 70 years of Toyota Land Cruisers, the bizarre tale of Nissan’s ‘Frontzilla’ Le Mans car, Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, faded old French garages, ’50s advertising and when ‘boxy’ was sexy. Free sticker set allows you to censor strong language on cover.
The Road Rat Issue 7 sees disassembling the greatest of all sports car myths – that of the Porsche 911. Gordon Murray opens up his notebooks on the development of what may be the last great ICE sports car, the T.50.
The Road Rat Issue 5 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. The fifth edition of The Road Rat, the first of four we plan to publish in 2020, is a unique collaboration with designer Marc Newson. Marc is as famous for his passion for cars as for designs like his Lockheed Lounge — the most valuable piece ever sold by a living designer.