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
The Goutte d’Eau. The Most Beautiful Car Nobody Remembers Ask anyone who knows cars which is the most beautiful ever built, and you’ll get a predictable list. The E-Type. The 250 GTO. The Miura. The DB5. All of them deserve to be there. All of them also have the cultural weight to make the conversation … 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
Porsche 928 — The Car That Tried to Kill the 911 Porsche 928: Porsche’s Greatest Failure In the mid-1970s, Porsche made a rational, engineering-driven decision: the 911’s rear-engine, air-cooled layout was a dead end, and the future required a front-engine, water-cooled grand tourer. They were right about the engineering. They were catastrophically wrong about their … Read more
BMW 850 CSi: The 380 HP V12 BMW Built to Humiliate Mercedes and Failed Gloriously The Grand Tourer That Arrived at Exactly the Wrong Moment In 1992, BMW presented the world with the 850 CSi: a Grand Tourer with a 5.6-liter V12 engine, 380 hp of power, a 6-speed manual transmission as the only option, … Read more
