Welcome DriveCult.com

The new site is now live and as you can probably guess by the title of this blog it's www.DriveCult.com. Here is a brief introduction, but I really hope you just click on the link  and go straight to the new site to see for yourself.  

Grand Touring has combined up with DriveCult.com to form the new site retaining the Drive Cult name. Drive Cult was created by Jamie Wolfcale who lives in the far warmer climes of San Diego California.  He brings a mix of new cars news, motorsport reporting and car culture, all in Jamie's easy style.  Eschewing the typical American Muscle car, Jamie drives a Mini Cooper S which occasionally he services and modifies himself.

It's not just Jamie and I working on this project, as the technical brains and creator of the site is Martin Spain, web developer, car enthusiast, and photographer extraordinaire (Martin took the picture above which you can see in much higher resolution at DriveCult.  For his own motoring thrills Martin has recently acquired an early Mazda MX5 whose development into a more potent track weapon will no doubt be charted on Drive Cult.

The team is completed by Chris Ratcliff and Jack Wood. Like Martin, Chris is a keen photographer and both of their photography efforts will be featured on the new site.  Chris is also something of a Nurburgring addict and probably would live there if he could. Jack is a Track Day fanatic and his modified Porsche Cayman can regularly be seen monstering much more powerful machinery on British circuits. Not one to let practicality get in the way of motoring thrills Jack also has a Mercedes C63 AMG estate for those rapid trips to the supermarket.

You will be able to read about life with all of these cars (any my Daytona) in Drive Cult's Garage section.

Expanding beyond Grand Touring's relatively high end sports car theme, Drive Cult aims to bring you news, features, blogs , and great  photography, covering all aspects of motoring culture, both here in the UK and in the US. We are enthusiasts on the outside looking into the motoring industry. and we intend to say things as we see them and free from industry spin.

Thank you to everyone who has followed Grand Touring on this site, and I hope you will continue to do so on  Drive Cult, where most of the GT archive can be found in the blog section. For now I will continue to leave this blog up, and the Facebook page will continue although you can expect this to become the Drive Cult page before too long.