Cars that don’t fit any mould. That’s exactly why they’re here
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
Banned in 1978. Champion in 2022. The Fan Car Nobody Saw Coming. Under 1,000 kg. 1,000 horsepower. And a system that sucks the car to the tarmac before the motor knows it’s moving. This is what happens when a Concorde engineer forgets that something has been banned for 44 years. On 11 April 2025, a … Read more
The Popemobile: The Most Impossible Design Brief in Automotive History A car manufacturer gets a call. The client needs a vehicle that does all of this simultaneously: millions of people must see the occupant from every angle. It must withstand rifle fire at point-blank range. It must cruise at five kilometers per hour for hours … Read more
Kimera Automobili: When a Rally Driver Decides History Isn’t Over There’s a question petrolheads ask themselves in silence every time a manufacturer kills a model that marked us: What if someone with the right hands and the right reasons brought it back? Not as a museum replica. Not as a collector’s toy with untouchable carpets. … Read more
BMW M8 E31: The Secret Supercar BMW Built, Hid in a Basement, and Denied for 20 Years In the early 1990s, a group of engineers at BMW Motorsport secretly built the most powerful car the company had ever conceived. A naturally aspirated 6.1-liter V12 producing 640 hp, carbon fiber intake with twelve individual throttle bodies, … Read more
