Guy Burden
@GuyInFlight
🌍 Globetrotting Common Little 🛩🛩 Trader. Planes for business, cars for ecstasy. Voted ‘2019 Global Dealmaker’ for some ridiculous reason.
"Yangwang is coming to Europe - and it wants to steal Bentley’s market share". That's the best start to the week I've had in a long while - and not just for the name.
Yangwang is coming to Europe - and it wants to steal Bentley’s market share We have full details: buff.ly/9uEBcuu
I may be biased, but this interpretation of a new @alfa_romeo GT Junior is stunning, to me. What do you think @IanCallum @ShamiKalra @LoveAlfa_ @AutoItaliaMag ? (it's been rendered by a real person, too) 📸 simolude_ai on Instagram
20yrs since this @British_Airways game-changer left us. I wonder what he'd do with it today... #LordKing @MaxK_J @JohnLStrickland @Tim_the_Pilot @Birdseed501 @scottiebateman @Fly_BOAC @Brabazon2 @jumpjim @TrueVC10derness @nealteamgibson @speedbird_uk
This is new to me, but perhaps (as usual) I'm late to the party... @MaxK_J @JohnLStrickland @Tim_the_Pilot @AndythePandy_ @Birdseed501 @scottiebateman @Fly_BOAC @JamesJDDG @Brabazon2 @jumpjim @TrueVC10derness @nealteamgibson @speedbird_uk youtu.be/_RGI8xLOmp0?si…
What's that, @MaxK_J @gj_moss @LUDENClassics @danpitt33 @AutoPap @IanCallum @OctaneMark @SteveFowler @nealteamgibson @JamesJDDG @ListerLawrence @markchristie @Tim_Oldland @SimonCarGuy? You'd like to see a Bombardier Challenger with an early XJ-S? Easy. 📸 BCCM St Moritz
"The impregnable peak of British mastery". Gen Z marcomms team, per chance? @markchristie @OctaneMark
The impregnable peak of British mastery. Discover Vanquish: bit.ly/4layttf Video by Aston Martin Bellvue. #AstonMartinLive #Vanquish #ZENITHDRIVEN
All credit to Lidl - who have pledged their commitment to British beef - by sourcing from domestic UK farmers and with no plans to import or switch suppliers abroad. farminguk.com/news/lidl-take…
Another @Jaguar that becomes even more classy with age*, eh @MaxK_J @IanCallum @LUDENClassics? * surely the sign of a classic
"...it struggled with its pivot towards high-end EVs". This is what happens when you abandon your core values. ft.com/content/dc5948…
Commentary: AI slop fills the information void of Air India crash investigation theaircurrent.com/commentary/ai-… (via @jonostrower) #staycurrent
Because large-scale air accidents are so rare, you can clearly see how much the media landscape has changed between each one. The toxicity of online life has only increased exponentially with the unfettered use of AI. theaircurrent.com/commentary/ai-…
Much as we love him, it's certainly not fair to say, "WO had been professionally stabbed in the back". He went bust and his business was sold to the highest bidder; Napier made a bid but were outbid by another buyer. Just because @RollsRoyce used a shell company is irrelevant.
AC/DC frontman, Brian Johnson meets Richard Charlesworth, Bentley’s Director of Heritage to learn about the heart-breaking history of the classic Bentley 8 Litre and tells him 'that second gear on a Bentley is a bugger'.
"Air traffic hadn't realised that the plane had disappeared from their screens" 🤦🏻♂️ @MaxK_J
Piece from Channel Four’s "Rescue: The History of Britain's Emergency Services" about the 1972 Staines Air Crash (1996) Much edited from the original, which featured photos of victims (including one still alive) by Srdja Djukanovic, + Frances Castledine’s heartbreaking account
What's all this, then? New Stelvio?
10 June 2025. A new chapter is about to begin. Bold, unexpected, unmistakably Alfa Romeo. alfaromeo.com/world-premiere
So far in 2025, Porsche AG has purged over half its Executive Board. McLaren has also just changed CEOs, Maserati is staring into the abyss, & Aston Martin has gotten into a spat on Executive Comp ssoreport.com/thoughts-may-2…
The Panda 4x4 has returned: this is the Grande Panda 4x4 concept ➡️ top-gear.visitlink.me/68kMkd
Great - now all my friends in here can buy a jet from me (I'm look at you @ShamiKalra and @ListerLawrence)
REPORT: Antarctica reverses trend and gains ice for the first time in decades, according to a new study published by Science China Earth Sciences. Researchers say from 2021-2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet saw a record-breaking mass *gain.* Tongji University researchers say…
