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Ferrari 599: The Last Ferrari With a Gear Lever In 2012 a chassis numbered 187007 left Maranello. A 599 GTB Fiorano with a six-speed manual and an aluminum gate. It was the last Ferrari that would ever be built with a shift lever. Ferrari said nothing. No announcement, no press release, no internal video. Out … Read more
Mercury Cougar Eliminator: the pony car with a muscle car heart that nobody names Let’s get the labels straight first, because almost everyone gets this wrong. The Mustang and the Cougar aren’t muscle cars, they’re pony cars: compact, affordable coupes born from the formula the Mustang launched in 1964. A real muscle car is a … Read more
NILU27: The Hypercar That Switches Off the Set America has spent the last decade driving inside a soundstage. That is not a figure of speech. It is a spec sheet. The engine note filling the cabin of half the performance cars on sale comes out of a speaker. The shove you feel between gears in … Read more
Apollo EVO Caribbean Dragon: 123 Hours to Print One Exhaust Pipe The exhaust takes 123 hours to make. Not to design. Not to develop. To make. One hundred and twenty-three hours of a 3D printer laying down titanium, layer by layer, to produce a single piece — the largest one-piece 3D-printed exhaust ever fitted to a … Read more
Ferrari Enzo: too much name for one car Ferrari did not put Enzo Ferrari’s first name on a road car to decorate the history books. It did it because the entire project had to answer for him. In 2002, Maranello could have followed the obvious sequence. F40. F50. Another code, another number, another supercar carrying … Read more
The Toyota GR GT Is the Toyota V8 That Answers a Question Nobody Dared Ask Ask a room of enthusiasts to name the last time Toyota built something to make you shiver, and most will land on the Lexus LFA. A 4.8-litre V10, a soundtrack Yamaha helped tune, and a build run so limited it … Read more
Praga Bohema: 700bhp, Sub-Tonne, and It Just Embarrassed the Hypercar Establishment Ben Collins drove to Dunsfold. Not in a transporter. Not behind a support truck full of engineers with laptops. He drove the car there, on public roads, on road tyres, with his race suit and helmet stashed in the side pod. He parked. He … Read more
Spyker C8 Spyder: The Last Supercar Of The 20th Century Built By One Pair Of Hands There’s a YouTube clip from 2004 in which Jeremy Clarkson is sitting inside a brand-new Spyker C8 Spyder, looking down at the exposed gear linkage and the polished aluminium dashboard, and he says something that has stuck with the … Read more
Ferrari built an SUV designed to hide the SUV Ferrari spent years swearing it would never build one. Then it built one, refused to call it an SUV, and invented a three-letter acronym rather than say the word out loud. FUV. Ferrari Utility Vehicle. Easy to laugh at. Marketing departments do this all the time. … Read more
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
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
Marcos Mantis: I Held One of Britain’s Strangest Cars and Never Knew It Here is a thing about plywood. During the Second World War, the de Havilland Mosquito — one of the fastest aircraft in the sky — was built largely from it. Wood, glued and shaped by people who understood that light, stiff and … Read more
