Cars that don’t fit any mould. That’s exactly why they’re here
A Blank Cheque, and the Buyer Asked for Three Pedals The Aston Martin Victor is what happens when a man can order any car in the world and deliberately chooses the hardest one to drive. Picture having that kind of money — not comfortable money, but the kind that gets you into Aston Martin’s “black … Read more
Renault Sport Spider: The Car That Dared to Take Your Windscreen Away Picture a product meeting at Renault in the mid-1990s. Someone stands up and says: “Let’s build a two-seater. No roof. No windscreen. We’ll fit an air deflector instead, and we’ll tell customers to wear a crash helmet on the road.” In any sane … Read more
Peralta S: the Giugiaro Name Returns to the Wedge Here’s a neat trick of symmetry. In 1972, a Giugiaro drew an impossible wedge over a Maserati and turned it into a legend. In 2025, another Giugiaro did exactly the same thing. Same surname. Same brand, near enough. Same wedge. But fifty-three years sit between the … Read more
The Maserati Boomerang: the Wedge That Drew Your Hatchback There’s a concept-car trope that Jeremy Clarkson loved to mock: the show stunner that turns up at Geneva, gets a thousand photographs, and is never seen or heard from again because it can’t actually move, steer, or stop. A non-car. A sculpture on a turntable. The … Read more
Spyker 60HP: The 1903 Car That Beat Audi, BMW And Land Rover By 80 Years Top Gear once put together a list of the most innovative cars of all time. Chris Harris has spoken at length about the cars that shaped what we drive today. Every motoring journalist worth their salt has, at some point, … Read more
Ferrari FXX: the most elegant scam in motoring history Run the numbers. In 2005 Ferrari pulled off a move that, attempted by anyone else, ends in a courtroom. They sold you a car for over a million euros. Then they kept it. They stored it at their place. They charged you separately for the privilege … Read more
The Goutte d’Eau. The Most Beautiful Car Nobody Remembers Ask anyone who knows cars which is the most beautiful ever built, and you’ll get a predictable list. The E-Type. The 250 GTO. The Miura. The DB5. All of them deserve to be there. All of them also have the cultural weight to make the conversation … Read more
Quarkus P3: The 600kg French Supercar That DNF’d at Pikes Peak Before Selling a Single Car They didn’t finish. On June 23rd, 2024, a car that had never been sold to anyone, built by a company most people had never heard of, entered the most punishing hillclimb on the planet and did not cross the … Read more
ASTON MARTIN LAGONDA: THE DISASTER THAT INVENTED THE FUTURE In the spring of 1978, during a press demonstration at Woburn Abbey, smoke began rising from the dashboard of a brand-new Aston Martin Lagonda. Executives had to push the car out of sight while journalists grinned and took notes. That single moment tells you everything about … Read more
The Van That Stole Junkers’ Bomber Skin and Ran 34 Years Citroën Type H: corrugated steel, unibody construction, and the lesson the industry still hasn’t learned Paris, October 1947. Motor Show. There’s a beast on the Citroën stand that doesn’t look like anything else on Earth. Pig snout up front. Corrugated metal flanks like a … Read more
Ferrari 250 GT Breadvan: The Ferrari Ferrari Refused To Acknowledge There exists a Ferrari built to destroy Ferrari. Read that again, slowly, because it isn’t a metaphor. A car with a Colombo V12, a 250 GT SWB chassis, a body designed by Giotto Bizzarrini, built by coachbuilder Piero Drogo in Modena in roughly two weeks, … Read more
MAYBACH EXELERO: THE $8 MILLION CAR NOBODY KNOWS WHO OWNS There are expensive cars. There are exclusive cars. There are one-of-a-kind cars. And then there’s the Maybach Exelero. A car of which only one exists on the entire planet, built to test tyres, appeared in a Jay-Z music video, was supposedly purchased for $8 million … Read more
