Where automotive icons live. We dive deep into the cars that shaped history, the posters on our childhood walls, and the machines that redefined performance and design.
LaFerrari: The Most Powerful Ferrari of Its Day Is the One That Lets You Drive Least Every other outlet is about to tell you the same thing, so let me not waste your time with it. They’ll hit you with the 963 horsepower, the F1-derived HY-KERS, the Fiorano lap five seconds quicker than the Enzo, … Read more
Alfa Romeo 75: The Last Real Alfa Romeo, the Car That Closed a Century of Independent Marque There are three things any serious Alfisti will tell you about the Alfa Romeo 75 before you’ve finished saying hello: One: the 75 is the last Alfa Romeo with transaxle architecture in the marque’s history. After the 75, in 1992, no … Read more
Alfa Romeo Alfasud: The Most Advanced Compact in Europe That Rusted Away Because of Politics More than a million units built between 1972 and 1989. 893,719 saloons produced between 1972 and 1983, plus 121,434 Sprint coupés between 1976 and 1989. A massive industrial figure by Alfa Romeo standards — a marque that had historically built … Read more
Ricart Cars: A Century Later, the Family Name Returns to Building Cars In 1922, a 25-year-old engineer from Barcelona designed and built two racing cars with double overhead cams and 16 valves. In 200 days. By himself. Engine, chassis, bodywork, suspension, brakes. Everything. With those cars he won races, beat Bugatti, and then dropped the … Read more
The Car That Was Too Honourable to Survive Chris Harris has a line he reaches for when a car does something special: it feels like it was built by people who cared more than the accountants wanted them to. He usually means it as the highest praise. But there’s a version of that sentence that … Read more
The Italian egg that saved BMW How a microcar designed by an aeronautical engineer for an Italian refrigerator maker kept the lights on in Munich until the Neue Klasse arrived There’s an image the German press of the 1950s made viral before the word viral existed. A man in a hat, suit and tie, opening … Read more
From refrigerator to grand tourer How Renzo Rivolta made the most improbable leap in Italian industrial history, hired a former Ferrari engineer, and built two cars with American hearts that still embarrass Maranello today There is an Italian gentleman you already know without realising it. He’s the one who in the 1950s ran a refrigerator … Read more
SLR Stirling Moss: The Goodbye That Beat Everyone by a Decade Some cars close a chapter. A rare few close it so well that, without meaning to, they open the next one. The SLR Stirling Moss is one of those. It’s the final page of a story this site has been telling in instalments. The … Read more
Mercedes SLR 722: The SLR That Finally Stopped Arguing With Itself There is a clip somewhere of Chris Harris talking about the SLR McLaren, and you can see the conflict on his face. He respects the car. He just can’t quite love it. And he’s not alone. For years the SLR was the supercar nobody … Read more
The Last Real Citroën. And the World’s Fastest Diesel. How a French saloon designed to replace the DS ended up setting world records, ferrying a communist head of state to his office, and being the last car with pure Citroën DNA before PSA homogenised the marque September 1974. Paris Motor Show. Citroën enters formal financial … Read more
The GT That Sank Citroën and Took Maserati Down Too Citroën SM: how an Italian V6, a steering system that wouldn’t talk back, and a French manufacturer’s ambition turned the most advanced Grand Tourer of its era into the most expensive industrial bill in seventies European motoring Geneva Motor Show, March 1970. Citroën stand. A … Read more
MAT: The Secret Workshop in Turin Where Other People’s Hypercars Are Actually Built Pop quiz for the readers of Top Gear, Petrolicious, Road & Track and every magazine that ever ran a launch story on a boutique hypercar. Where is the Aspark Owl built? Where is the Glickenhaus SCG003 assembled? Where does the Apollo Intensa … Read more
