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
The Italian company that builds every IndyCar, F2 and F3 chassis — and almost nobody outside racing knows the name Forget the F1 paddock for a minute. Walk down pit lane at the Indianapolis 500 instead. Every car you see — every single one of the 33 starters — was built by the same company. … 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
The Ferrari that Ferrari didn’t build: the uncomfortable truth about the 333 SP Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further. When Ferrari came back to sports prototype racing in 1994 after twenty years of absolute silence, the car that restored their dignity wasn’t built in Maranello. It was built in Varano de’ … Read more
Ferruccio Lamborghini: the farmer who insulted Enzo Ferrari and built an empire The man who answered an insult with a V12 A 47-year-old tractor manufacturer walks into Enzo Ferrari’s office in Maranello and tells him his cars are rubbish. Ferrari tells him to go back to his tractors. Four months later, the tractor manufacturer has … Read more
Lancia 037: The Last RWD King of Rally Lancia 037: The Last Rear-Wheel Drive Car to Win the Rally World Championship. Nobody Has Done It Since. Some records exist to inform. Others exist to humiliate. The Lancia 037‘s record belongs in the second category. World Rally Championship Constructors’ title in 1983. Last rear-wheel drive car … Read more
