The Road Rat Issue 18 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. The 18th edition of The Road Rat 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’. With a 34-page portfolio by Benedict Redgrove (of NASA: Past and Present Dreams of the Future) at its centre, surrounded by The Road Rat’s globally celebrated writing, photography and design; Merc SLRs, Porsche GT1s, the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and David Bowie and of er… ‘influencers’.
The Road Rat Magazine is the world’s most beautiful car magazine. The Road Rat is a new kind of car magazine. Not overly obsessed with the detail of old cars nor over-impressed with the performance of new; the Road Rat instead firmly believes there are good stories — real stories, stories to consume with relish — in both old and new and in racing too. But above all The Road Rat believes in the glory of magazines; lush, beautiful, valuable, collectable and exquisitely crafted magazines. Think of us as a carefully-curated bookshop or an horizon-widening record store. We are proudly analogue and believe some things – but mostly beautiful cars – just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obesssive need to climb. For us an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
Details
244 pages, English, 29 x 23 cm
