The V&A Museum Cars: Accelerating the Modern World is a collection to take you on a journey with what is the 20th centuries most influential force. The car, or automobile.

The collection contains the worlds first car from Daimler benz, through to a concept gas turbine car from General Motors. None of the cars here have been on display in the UK car before and represent significant milestones. “The V&A’s mission is to champion the power of design to change the world, and no other design object has impacted the world more than the automobile.The exhibition is about the power of design to effect change, and the unintended consequences that have contributed to ourcurrent environmental situation,”says Brendan Cormier, Curator.

With 15 cars and 250 objects split into three sections, Going Fast, Making More and Shaping Space. Going Fast is obviusly about speed, but also the accelerating pace of change. Influential and iconic vehicles such as the fabulous Tatra T77 with its streamlined shape. The influence of this on other aspects of fashion and design defined a whole era. Alongside is the Delahaye Type 145 from the Mullin Collection is the winner of the ‘Million Franc Race’ which brought Grand Prix wins back to the French.

General Motors experiments with gas turbine cars are well known but I had not seen the Firebird before and it really is fantastic.