The most brutal and iconic supercars in history. Machinesbuilt without limits for those who want more than just a car.
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 6×6: the Australian Army six-wheel G-Wagen turned 536-hp desert toy, with portal axles, 4,083 kg and about 100 built, none sold in the U.S.
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
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
