Daily Bread
How a Warsaw bakery became a Le Mans-winning racing team. The Śmiechowski family, succession in motorsport, and a new art car livery painted in Polish spring colors.
A Weekend in Frames
Two days inside a building that used to forge steel. Five halls, a hundred cars that don't usually meet, and the particular angle the light arrives at when the architect never planned for it.
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Pinterest 911
Beautifully spec'd 911s are everywhere now. Perfect builds, curated palettes, matching merch. But when did the experience become secondary to the aesthetic?
Fantastic Mr. Fox
From metal posters to metal body panels. Edward Ruszczyc built Displate, then started rebuilding Defenders, and now he's heading to Dakar 2027 in a Taurus. Driven Stories is going with him.
First Dance
A childhood dream rebuilt from an Audi Coupé into a Group B–inspired ur-quattro with an aramid body kit, 404 hp five-cylinder, and a roll cage. This is the story of its very first drive.
Łomianki - Tokyo
Stuttgart cars on a Tokyo expressway. Luftgekühlt 2026 turned a closed section of the K&K elevated road in Ginza into an open-air gallery of air-cooled Porsche. And there's a Polish thread running through it all.
The Mercedes Sauber C11: Dust and Silver
Chassis 90.C11.04. The car in which Schumacher learned how to win. Shot on 35mm film in a Warsaw industrial hall where people normally dance until sunrise.
Video by Christian Chrastev
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
From metal posters to metal body panels. Edward Ruszczyc built Displate, then started rebuilding Defenders, and now he's heading to Dakar 2027 in a Taurus. Driven Stories is going with him.
First Dance
A childhood dream rebuilt from an Audi Coupé into a Group B–inspired ur-quattro with an aramid body kit, 404 hp five-cylinder, and a roll cage. This is the story of its very first drive.
Łomianki - Tokyo
Stuttgart cars on a Tokyo expressway. Luftgekühlt 2026 turned a closed section of the K&K elevated road in Ginza into an open-air gallery of air-cooled Porsche. And there's a Polish thread running through it all.
The Brick That Flies
It all started with a wild project that was supposed to be Piotrek's personal car. It ended with him leaving his previous career behind and embarking on an extraordinary adventure.
The art of subtraction
Kamil Koźlarek on why less means more in automotive photography. A conversation about composition, silence, and the album that took four years to make.
Operation: Unimog
What can you do in the middle of Norway, near Trondheim, in February? Buy a Unimog. A story about two friends, bald tyres, a burned-out alternator, and a drive across Scandinavia that nobody planned.
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First Dance
A childhood dream rebuilt from an Audi Coupé into a Group B–inspired ur-quattro with an aramid body kit, 404 hp five-cylinder, and a roll cage. This is the story of its very first drive.
Patryk Kościelniak
Substance: More Than Just Cars
After a one-year break, Substance returned to Łódź with a new location, white balaclavas, and the kind of atmosphere you can't fake. A velodrome, a hundred cars, and a crowd that knows exactly why they're there.
Łukasz Dawczyk
The art of subtraction
Kamil Koźlarek on why less means more in automotive photography. A conversation about composition, silence, and the album that took four years to make.
Łukasz Dawczyk
Operation: Unimog
What can you do in the middle of Norway, near Trondheim, in February? Buy a Unimog. A story about two friends, bald tyres, a burned-out alternator, and a drive across Scandinavia that nobody planned.
Łukasz Dawczyk