A Blank Cheque, and the Buyer Asked for Three Pedals The Aston Martin Victor is what happens when a man can order any car in the world and deliberately chooses the hardest one to drive. Picture having that kind of money — not comfortable money, but the kind that gets you into Aston Martin’s “black … Read more
JAGUAR C-X75: THE SUPERCAR JAGUAR CHOSE NOT TO BUILD A British supercar that beat Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche to the punch Three years before LaFerrari, P1 and 918 Spyder were even announced, a British firm in Coventry had already engineered a 890 hp plug-in hybrid supercar with a 1.6-litre engine that revved to 10,000 rpm … 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
Chrysler Built a 194 MPH Pace Car With a K-Car Engine, Then Lent It to a Charlie Sheen Movie The Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor was a real Le Mans-spec prototype. Hollywood borrowed it. And an assistant cameraman never came home. Clarkson built half his Top Gear career on a simple premise: most cars that look … Read more
Oreste Berta: The Cosworth Argentina Built and Then Abandoned In January 1975, a flatbed trailer pulled by a tired van crossed the country from Córdoba to Buenos Aires carrying a Formula 1 car. No transporter. No team uniforms. No sponsors on the bodywork. Just a small group of mechanics, a forty-six-year-old engineer named Oreste Berta, … Read more
The Audi RS4 B5 Avant: The Station Wagon That Embarrassed Supercars Let me tell you something that’s going to upset some people: one of the most savage performance cars ever built is a station wagon. Not a coupe. Not an Italian mid-engine exotic. A station wagon. With a trunk big enough for strollers, grocery bags, … Read more
COSWORTH: THE HISTORY Cosworth: The Company That Powered Half the World in Competition In competitive motorsport, there exists a name that appears on more winning cars, more championships, and more victory stories than any independent engine manufacturer in history. It’s not Ferrari. It’s not Mercedes. It’s not Honda. It’s Cosworth. A company founded in a … Read more
