The most brutal and iconic supercars in history. Machinesbuilt without limits for those who want more than just a car.
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
Maserati MC20: A 10 for Build, With a Thorn in the Ear There’s a thing the old Top Gear crew understood better than anyone: a car can tell you the truth about itself in the first second, before you’ve moved an inch. The MC20 has that second. You drop into the seat, pull the butterfly … Read more
Built by the company that makes every IndyCar. 855 kg. Focus RS engine. No doors Chris Harris drove it on Top Gear and seemed genuinely puzzled by it. Not in a bad way. In the way you get puzzled when somebody hands you something familiar and it turns out to be wired completely differently. The … Read more
Alfa Romeo Montreal: The Prototype-Engined GT That Arrived Late to Its Own Party Picture this scenario. You have access to one of the most exotic V8s ever produced in 1960s European motor engineering: a 90-degree, 2.6-litre, twin-cam-per-bank, dry-sump, cross-plane-crankshaft, SPICA mechanical fuel-injected unit, derived directly from the Tipo 33 sports racing prototype that Autodelta had … Read more
BMW 3.0 CSL Batmobile: The Car BMW Sold You With the Wing Dismantled in the Boot There’s a photograph that circulates in BMW collector circles of a German customer in 1974 taking delivery of his brand-new 3.0 CSL. He opens the boot. Inside, lying neatly across the carpet, are three pieces of black-painted aluminium — … Read more
Bugatti EB110, the hypercar that put a twenty-first century spec sheet on the table in 1991 Cover the badge with your hand and read it like this. Three-and-a-half-litre V12, mid-rear mounted. Sixty valves, five per cylinder, three intake and two exhaust. Twelve individual throttle bodies. Four small IHI turbochargers, two per bank, running between 1.05 … 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
