Graham Heeps

Calgary

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer and editor specializing in automotive, technical, business and motorsport subjects. All views my own!

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Articles

Ten Highlights and a Full Gallery from the Refurbished IMS Museum

1 week ago | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

It has long housed one of the world’s great auto racing collections, but the almost 50-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) Museum was looking a little jaded. Not anymore. A trip to the 2025 Indianapolis 500 enabled Hemmings.com to tour the reborn institution, which reopened on April 2 after a comprehensive, 17-month, $60.5m renovation. A second phase, to build a new, $15m restoration shop and event facility, kicks off this summer.
From Two Wheels to Four: 10 Cars and Trucks from Motorcycle Manufacturers

1 month ago | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

Recent branding moves by Bugatti and Audi in the fast-growing electric-scooter sector are far from the only time that car makers have pitched to the two-wheeler market. Especially in the early days of motoring, it was often bicycle and motorcycle manufacturers who graduated into building powered four-wheelers. Some, like BMW, Honda, and Suzuki, are still active in both fields.
Check Out 10 Great Indy 500-Themed Rides for the Month of May

1 month ago | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

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1938 Alvis Lancefield Continuation Car Debuts at Automobile Council 2025 in Japan

1 month ago | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

The Alvis Lancefield, the latest Continuation Series car from The Alvis Car Company, has made its public debut at the Automobile Council 2025 vintage car show in Chiba City, Japan. The 2025 Lancefield follows on from the Art Deco original, once hailed as one of the world’s most beautiful cars, which left Alvis’s then-factory in Coventry, UK, in 1937. The fully street-legal continuation car was crafted in Alvis’s current works in Kenilworth, just south of Coventry in the UK’s Midlands.
From Mercury To Minerva: Ten Great Vehicles With Links To The Ancient Gods

2 months ago | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

The recent IMSA racing debut of the Aston Martin Valkyrie was a reminder of the enduring appeal to vehicle makers of model names taken from ancient mythologies and religions. We’re not sure that it’s in the new hypercar’s remit to follow its Norse namesakes in guiding souls of the dead to Valhalla (the hall of the god Odin, and inspiration for another recent Aston model). But at least the race car’s howling V-12 soundtrack evokes the aural drama of Wagner’s famous Ride of the Valkyries.
In pictures: the story of the Classic American police car

Mar 27, 2025 | autocar.co.uk | Graham Heeps

Who doesn’t like a police car? Well, maybe the bad guys, but the rest of us are suckers for a big sedan with flashing lights, buzzing radios and tyre-squealing V8 power. Here we take a look at classic US cop cars like this 1978 Plymouth Volare, as well as going under the skin of latest high-tech police models from Chevrolet, Dodge and Ford – and ask if the conventional police sedan has a future today.
Are These Ten Replica Cars Even Better Than The Real THing?

Mar 7, 2025 | hemmings.com | Graham Heeps

It’s easy to dismiss replicas for a lack of authenticity, for occasionally low-rent origins, or sometimes for wheelbase, track or ride-height inaccuracies that can lead to disappointing proportions and stance. But most replicas are of exotic cars most of us will never be able to afford. And if we could, we probably wouldn’t be risking our multimillion-dollar rarity at the local car meet.
CASE STUDY: Yamaha's hydrogen outboard

Jan 27, 2025 | electrichybridmarinetechnology.com | Graham Heeps |Elizabeth Baker

Yamaha is working with Roush Industries and Regulator Marine to evaluate the adoption of hydrogen fuel in an outboard engine application. Back in July 2024, a team from Roush Industries and Yamaha Motor Corporation loaded a specially adapted Regulator Marine hull onto a transporter. They took it to a hydrogen fueling station in Flint, Michigan, to fill the storage tanks of the 8m vessel – powered by the world’s first hydrogencombustion outboard motor – for the first time.
Custom-Built Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Vans Go Overlanding in Style

Jan 17, 2025 | tractionlife.com | Graham Heeps

Amid the explosion in popularity in the overlanding sector, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans have rapidly acquired cult status. Offering something a little different than the Broncos, Wranglers and other SUV- and pickup-based rigs, Sprinters are attractive for their mix of size, style, capability, luxury and camper van ease-of-conversion, according to Alan Mondus, CEO and co-founder of Sprinter conversion specialists, Sandy Vans.
Scout Motors Navigates the Line Between Retro & Modern Design

Jan 11, 2025 | tractionlife.com | Graham Heeps

I was chatting to a media colleague during CES 2025 who was adamant that the styling of the upcoming Scout Motors body-on-frame EVs – the Terra pickup and Traveler SUV – was disappointingly derivative. Then another colleague voiced his disagreement, saying how he thought the Volkswagen Group-owned startup, which is designing, engineering and (from 2027) building and selling its vehicles in the USA, had got the designs spot-on. You can’t please everyone.