Hartley Engines: The 1,070-HP V12 That Came Out of a Dirt-Track Shop Toyota spent a fortune making a V12 that nobody would notice. The 1GZ-FE went into the Century, the hand-built limousine that outranks a Lexus in Japan, and every engineering decision behind it was aimed at silence, smoothness and the total absence of drama … Read more
TVR CERBERA SPEED 12: THE CAR ITS OWN BOSS CANCELLED AFTER ONE DRIVE HOME Blackpool, late 2000. A wet evening on the Lancashire coast. Peter Wheeler, owner of TVR, slides into the driver’s seat of a prototype he’s been waiting four years to drive. The car costs £245,000. It’s been promoted as the machine that … Read more
McLaren: Sixty Years of Building Cars That Hurt, From a Limp in Auckland to the Top of Formula 1 Top Gear’s Chris Harris once said that the McLaren F1 is the only road car that has ever genuinely scared him. Not in the way a Lamborghini Diablo scares you with its switches and its truculence, … Read more
