AutoMuseum Volkswagen Before the turn of the millennium, fans and visitors to Volkswagen’s vast Wolfsburg factory had only one option to look at past the company’s automotive wonders. With an eye on its complicated past, in 1985 the German firm opened a small museum in the town which was created especially for it. The warehouse-type AutoMuseum Volkswagen building in … [Read more...]
Frankfurt Motor Show 2013
“The most automotive show in the world” Nobody, either involved or interested in the motor industry, can ignore the Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung - IAA) dedicated to cars in uneven years in Frankfurt, and to commercial vehicles in even years in Hanover. Past IAAs drew between 900,000 and one million visitors from all over the world. This … [Read more...]
Channel Crossing…Which route is best?
The Le Mans 24-hours endurance race is quite possibly the best known racing event on the planet, and so it stands to reason that as a working journalist and photographer, one will move mountains to obtain media accreditation to this race. To gain access to the media centre for this event is not as easy as you may think, but the privilege of working there and meeting with … [Read more...]
Cyclisme en France
Getting around the famous 13.5km Circuit de la Sarthe can be a challenge, especially when you are carrying camera gear and you need to criss-cross the huge compound during the week-long activities in search of people to interview, or to capture that perfect shot. As in previous years Virtual Motorpix (VMP) was there from the Tuesday of race week, this time though equipped with … [Read more...]
30 years of the motor show: 1981-2011
Pim van der Veer, one of our photographers, looks at how the dynamics of international motor shows have changed over the last thirty years. The Frankfurt Motor Show – or as it is properly called, the IAA Internationale Automobil Ausstellung – is the biggest motor show held in Europe every other year (uneven years), the Paris Motor Show being held alternately in the even … [Read more...]
