Cars that don’t fit any mould. That’s exactly why they’re here
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
I Heard the GTA Spano E&D Run. I’ll Never Forget It. There are moments that don’t translate well into words. Moments where reality overtakes everything you’ve read, watched on video or imagined. Moments that shift your reference point for what’s actually possible in this country when someone has enough determination to keep going no matter … Read more
The Golf That Volkswagen Was Too Scared to Build VW Golf GTI W12-650: A Bentley Engine, Lamborghini Axle, Audi RS4 Brakes, and the Most Terrifying Hot Hatch Ever Created — Built in Two Months Section: Builds & Swaps | Not Enough Cylinders Every major automaker has a parts bin. But only one ever had a … Read more
