Ferrari F12: The Car That Killed the Gear Lever Several articles in this series have been following a countdown. Here it reaches zero. The F12berlinetta is the first Ferrari twelve-cylinder that did not offer a manual gearbox even as an option. Not one car. The 599 we covered in its own piece stands permanently as … Read more
NILU27: The Hypercar That Switches Off the Set America has spent the last decade driving inside a soundstage. That is not a figure of speech. It is a spec sheet. The engine note filling the cabin of half the performance cars on sale comes out of a speaker. The shove you feel between gears in … Read more
Apollo EVO Caribbean Dragon: 123 Hours to Print One Exhaust Pipe The exhaust takes 123 hours to make. Not to design. Not to develop. To make. One hundred and twenty-three hours of a 3D printer laying down titanium, layer by layer, to produce a single piece — the largest one-piece 3D-printed exhaust ever fitted to a … Read more
Ferrari built an SUV designed to hide the SUV Ferrari spent years swearing it would never build one. Then it built one, refused to call it an SUV, and invented a three-letter acronym rather than say the word out loud. FUV. Ferrari Utility Vehicle. Easy to laugh at. Marketing departments do this all the time. … Read more
A Blank Cheque, and the Buyer Asked for Three Pedals The Aston Martin Victor is what happens when a man can order any car in the world and deliberately chooses the hardest one to drive. Picture having that kind of money — not comfortable money, but the kind that gets you into Aston Martin’s “black … Read more
GMA T.50: The Car Gordon Murray Has Been Waiting 30 Years to Build Gordon Murray has spent his entire career proving one thing: that lighter is better. He proved it with 22 Grand Prix wins at Brabham. He proved it with the MP4/4, the most dominant Formula 1 car ever made. He proved it with … Read more
Ferrari 330 P4: The Most Perfect Reply To a Humiliation Ferrari never answered Ford with words. Ferrari answered with a photograph. Daytona, 5 February 1967, half past three in the afternoon. Three red cars crossing the finish line side by side, shoulder to shoulder, drivers revving their engines like men spitting in their rivals’ faces. … Read more
Ferrari F50: The Ferrari The Press Couldn’t Read Let’s get one thing straight before we start. In 1995, when Ferrari launched the F50, the motoring press of the entire planet agreed on one thing: it was a disappointment. They said it in the United States. They said it in England. They said it in Italy. … Read more
