Fiat S76: the Beast of Turin, the car that terrified its own drivers You’ve probably seen the video. A monstrous, ancient car sits on the grass at Goodwood, someone hand-cranks it, and it erupts — sheets of flame shooting sideways from open exhaust ports, a noise like artillery fire mixed with a warplane engine, spectators … Read more
Spyker C8 Spyder: The Last Supercar Of The 20th Century Built By One Pair Of Hands There’s a YouTube clip from 2004 in which Jeremy Clarkson is sitting inside a brand-new Spyker C8 Spyder, looking down at the exposed gear linkage and the polished aluminium dashboard, and he says something that has stuck with the … Read more
Stirling Moss: The Champion Who Chose Not to Be One Ask any British kid of a certain age what their dad said when a copper pulled him over for speeding, and you’ll get the same answer: “Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” Not Hawthorn. Not Fangio. Not Hamilton, decades later. Moss. The name … Read more
Banned in 1978. Champion in 2022. The Fan Car Nobody Saw Coming. Under 1,000 kg. 1,000 horsepower. And a system that sucks the car to the tarmac before the motor knows it’s moving. This is what happens when a Concorde engineer forgets that something has been banned for 44 years. On 11 April 2025, a … Read more
