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BOVENSIEPEN ZAGATO: WHEN BMW BOUGHT ALPINA, THE FAMILY STAYED IN THE WORKSHOP BOVENSIEPEN ZAGATO: WHEN BMW BOUGHT ALPINA, THE FAMILY STAYED IN THE WORKSHOP Ask anyone who watched Chris Harris drive an ALPINA B7 down a wet B-road back in the day. He came back out of the car with that grin he only gets … Read more
Ferrari F40 LM and Competizione: Maranello’s Group B Debt, Paid Ten Years Late There are cars that arrive on time and cars that arrive late. The Ferrari F40 LM arrived late. It arrived three years after Henri Toivonen was killed in Corsica and the FIA killed Group B. It arrived two years after the road … Read more
Kimera K39: 1,000 Koenigsegg Horsepower, a Manual Gearbox, and the Question Nobody Dared Ask Christian von Koenigsegg doesn’t hand out the beating heart of his company to just anyone. He’s spent decades building a reputation on engineering so uncompromising that owning a Koenigsegg feels less like buying a car and more like receiving a handshake … Read more
De Tomaso P72: The Time Machine That Took Six Years to Start There are promises that get kept. And there are promises that take so long to deliver that by the time they arrive, nobody believes them anymore. The De Tomaso P72 was unveiled as a concept at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July … Read more
Maserati MC12: The Supercar That Forced the FIA to Invent Balance of Performance Top Gear lapped one. The Stig set a time of 1:18.9 — one tenth faster than the Ferrari Enzo. Clarkson called it twitchy, oversized, and “either a racer, a GT car, or a detuned Enzo in a fat suit.” He couldn’t quite … Read more
Ferrari F40: The Car That Was Born So Five Prototypes Wouldn’t End Up In The Scrapyard Everything you’ve been told about the origin of the Ferrari F40 is half-true. That it was Enzo’s gift to celebrate forty years of the factory. That it was the answer to Porsche and the 959. That it was the … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD: the Mustang that wasn’t supposed to exist Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For a Mustang. Read it again. No typo. A Ford Mustang costs, today, more than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. More than a base McLaren 750S. More than an Aston Martin Vantage did not long ago. And the guy … Read more
GIAMARO KATLA: 2,157 HP, FOUR TURBOS, ZERO ELECTRONS — AND A QUIET ANSWER TO A LOUD POLITICAL DEMAND The headline number is the easy part. Two thousand one hundred and fifty-seven horsepower, from a 6,988 cc V12 with four turbochargers, no hybrid assistance of any kind. A seven-speed manual gearbox driving the rear wheels. A … Read more
Buick GSX: the muscle car that won the war and never made the highlight reel Picture Chris Harris stood next to a 1970 muscle car for a vintage shootout. He’d reach for the Hemi Cuda. He’d reach for the LS6 Chevelle. He’d absolutely reach for the 1970 Boss 429 because the entire Anglo motoring brain … Read more
Ferrari 288 GTO and Evoluzione: The Last Ferrari Designed To Win Races That Never Raced There’s a room in Maranello’s engine department where a Ferrari is parked that shouldn’t exist. It has no licence plate. It has no race category. It has no calendar. It’s been sitting there for nearly forty years, preserved by the … Read more
Porsche 911 GT1: the legal loophole that won Le Mans Here’s the part most people get backwards: the Porsche 911 GT1 is not a road car they turned into a race car. It’s a race car they were forced to register for the road. Because if they hadn’t, the FIA wouldn’t let it onto the … Read more
Ferrari F50: The Ferrari The Press Couldn’t Read Let’s get one thing straight before we start. In 1995, when Ferrari launched the F50, the motoring press of the entire planet agreed on one thing: it was a disappointment. They said it in the United States. They said it in England. They said it in Italy. … Read more
