The most brutal and iconic supercars in history. Machinesbuilt without limits for those who want more than just a car.
Bugatti EB110: the supercar that arrived ten years before the future caught up Ask most people under forty when Bugatti returned to building cars and you’ll get the same answer. The Veyron. 2005. Volkswagen. End of story. That’s wrong by about fourteen years and one country. Before the W16, before Wolfsburg’s open chequebook, before the … Read more
BMW 2002 turbo: The Car So Aggressive It Was Debated in the German Parliament There aren’t many production cars that have ended up in a national parliament debate. A war memorial, sure. A political scandal involving a transport minister, occasionally. But an actual production sports car argued over at federal government level for the design … Read more
Eccentrica V12: The Analogue Rebellion That Just Spent a Million Quid on a Diablo In an age where the average new supercar fields three electric motors, fifteen hundred horsepower from a battery pack and a Nürburgring mode that scores your laps to Hans Zimmer, a quietly stubborn man from San Marino has set about doing … Read more
The Supercar That Dared to Be Comfortable: The Maserati Bora’s Secret French Heart Ask any supercar of 1971 the questions that actually mattered to an owner and you’d usually get a sneer. Can I climb in without wrecking my back? Can I drive it for two hours without going deaf? Can I park it without … Read more
TVR CERBERA SPEED 12: THE CAR ITS OWN BOSS CANCELLED AFTER ONE DRIVE HOME Blackpool, late 2000. A wet evening on the Lancashire coast. Peter Wheeler, owner of TVR, slides into the driver’s seat of a prototype he’s been waiting four years to drive. The car costs £245,000. It’s been promoted as the machine that … Read more
Brabus Spent 50 Years Tearing Mercedes Apart. For Its Masterpiece, the Bodo, It Picked an Aston Martin For half a century the formula never changed. You take a Mercedes — ideally one already breathed on by AMG — and you hand it to Brabus, the Bottrop firm that exists to take something fast and make … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD Competition: Ford’s blow at the Nordschleife Six minutes. Forty seconds. Eight hundred and thirty-five thousandths. 6:40.835. Read it slow, because this isn’t going to live long in the papers before someone breaks it, but as I write this it’s the absolute fastest time an American street-legal car has ever registered at the … Read more
GMA T.50: The Car Gordon Murray Has Been Waiting 30 Years to Build Gordon Murray has spent his entire career proving one thing: that lighter is better. He proved it with 22 Grand Prix wins at Brabham. He proved it with the MP4/4, the most dominant Formula 1 car ever made. He proved it with … Read more
Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II: the NASCAR weapon Ford buried to save its own brand If you’ve ever watched a David Pearson highlight reel from 1969, you’ve seen the Talladega. If you’ve ever read a paperback history of NASCAR‘s Aero Wars, you’ve seen the Charger Daytona and the Superbird. The shapes are unforgettable. The wings, the … Read more
BMW M5 E60: The Most Ambitious Engine BMW Ever Built, Bolted Into the Most Hated Chassis They Ever Sold Sixty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds in 2005. Twenty-two thousand pounds today. That’s what Top Gear quoted in their best-ever V10s retrospective for a clean E60 M5. Sixty-five percent depreciation in twenty years. By way … Read more
MERCEDES-AMG G63 6X6: How a truck for the Australian army got an AMG makeover The Mercedes G63 6×6, the precise moment a premium brand decided to spend with no limits Some cars only exist because, at a specific moment, a manufacturer decided money was no object. They’re not the cars that sell in volume. They’re … Read more
Jaguar XJ220: The Bruiser That Humiliated Maranello and Ended Up Sitting Unsold There is a Top Gear segment from 1998 in which Jeremy Clarkson, six years after the launch of the fastest production car in the world, stands in front of a Jaguar XJ220 and explains that you can now buy one brand new for … Read more
