Ferrari FXX: the most elegant scam in motoring history Run the numbers. In 2005 Ferrari pulled off a move that, attempted by anyone else, ends in a courtroom. They sold you a car for over a million euros. Then they kept it. They stored it at their place. They charged you separately for the privilege … 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
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren: The Supercar Born from an “Impossible Marriage” Imagine putting a German engineer obsessed with luxury and a British engineer obsessed with performance at the same table. Tell them they have to build a car together. Give them an unlimited budget and four years. What comes out of that meeting is the Mercedes-Benz … Read more
