The Electric Pitchfork

The Grand Tour:The Cars The Grand Tour isn’t all trips to Barbados and pretending to be super-army soldiers. There are also cars. Here are 12 of the best to expect in this series. Aston Martin Vulcan A 7-litre 800bhp-plus track-only bruiser that’s as British as moaning about the weather Ford Mustang V8 GT v Ford Focus RS Old-fashioned Detroit grunt meets European turbocharged trickery. Clarkson and Hammond present the cases for each Porsche 911 GT3 RS v BMW M4 GTS Two German track-day powerhouses. Clarkson approaches with an open mind, but then remembers one is owned by Hammond Honda NSX May makes a rare track appearance to test this supercar. Mind-bogglingly technical and detailed ... and the Honda seems quite complicated too Abarth 124 Spider A sucker for a farty exhaust note and optional black bonnet, Hammond puts the fruitiest version of Fiat’s new roadster through its paces BMW M2 T...

Pete Burns Spoke To SDE Just Weeks Before His Death I interviewed  Dead Or Alive  frontman  Pete Burns  for SDE about a month ago, to discuss the new  19-disc box set   Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI . I was literally listening to the audio of the interview (conducted over the phone) late yesterday afternoon, when the shocking news came in of Pete’s untimely death at the age of 57. When we spoke, Pete told me that he hadn’t done an interview for over 18 months and was “very anxious” about it, because he was “not used to selling a product”. He also didn’t really like speaking over the phone: “I hate having them and I don’t have the internet, either. I’m primitive, really,” he said. He was recovering from a spell in hospital with kidney problems (“I’m fine now”) and was just getting back to a routine at home “and finding my feet in life again, because I’ve just spent four months in a hospital bed.” I reassured him that I was ...