Bugatti EB110: the supercar that arrived ten years before the future caught up Ask most people under forty when Bugatti returned to building cars and you’ll get the same answer. The Veyron. 2005. Volkswagen. End of story. That’s wrong by about fourteen years and one country. Before the W16, before Wolfsburg’s open chequebook, before the … Read more
The Supercar That Dared to Be Comfortable: The Maserati Bora’s Secret French Heart Ask any supercar of 1971 the questions that actually mattered to an owner and you’d usually get a sneer. Can I climb in without wrecking my back? Can I drive it for two hours without going deaf? Can I park it without … Read more
JAGUAR C-X75: THE SUPERCAR JAGUAR CHOSE NOT TO BUILD A British supercar that beat Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche to the punch Three years before LaFerrari, P1 and 918 Spyder were even announced, a British firm in Coventry had already engineered a 890 hp plug-in hybrid supercar with a 1.6-litre engine that revved to 10,000 rpm … Read more
CHRYSLER ME FOUR-TWELVE: THE AMERICAN SUPERCAR MERCEDES MURDERED A 248 mph American hypercar, born inside the wrong corporation McLaren F1Before the Bugatti Veyron set a new bar at 253 mph. Before the Ferrari Enzo was fully digested by the collector market. Before the McLaren F1 looked replaceable. Detroit had a car ready to leave them … Read more
Maserati MC12: The Supercar That Forced the FIA to Invent Balance of Performance Top Gear lapped one. The Stig set a time of 1:18.9 — one tenth faster than the Ferrari Enzo. Clarkson called it twitchy, oversized, and “either a racer, a GT car, or a detuned Enzo in a fat suit.” He couldn’t quite … Read more
LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH: WHY THE MOST FAMOUS SUPERCAR IN HISTORY WAS ALSO THE WORST Let’s start with what the Countach actually was. Not what it looked like — what it was. It was a car with no rear visibility. Literally none. The V12 and its intake scoops occupied the space where a rear window should have … Read more
LAMBORGHINI LM002: The engine doesn’t match the car Pop the asymmetric bonnet of a Lamborghini LM002 and look down. What you’re seeing is a Tipo L510 V12. 5,167 cc. Double overhead cams per bank. Four valves per cylinder. Six twin-choke Weber carburettors feeding twelve cylinders. 444 hp at 6,800 rpm. That engine has no business … Read more
MAYBACH EXELERO: THE $8 MILLION CAR NOBODY KNOWS WHO OWNS There are expensive cars. There are exclusive cars. There are one-of-a-kind cars. And then there’s the Maybach Exelero. A car of which only one exists on the entire planet, built to test tyres, appeared in a Jay-Z music video, was supposedly purchased for $8 million … Read more
The Lamborghini Miura: The Bull That Invented the Modern Supercar Every car has a father. But very few cars are the father of everything that came after. The Lamborghini Miura is that car. This isn’t hype. It’s not marketing speak. It’s a verifiable fact: before the Miura, the concept of a “supercar” as we know … Read more
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR: The Race Car That Was Forced to Become a Road Car 128 Days from Blank Paper to Race Winner. 25 Road Cars. $1.5 Million Each. And a McLaren F1 They Bought in Secret. There are road cars that get turned into race cars. And then, very rarely, there are race cars that … Read more
Porsche Carrera GT: The Last Supercar That Wanted to Kill You In an era when every supercar comes wrapped in electronic safety nets, the Porsche Carrera GT stands as the last monument to a terrifying philosophy: here’s 612 horsepower. Good luck. No traction control. No stability control. A clutch so aggressive it earned the nickname … Read more
