22 September 2022 The Delage D12 is a hybrid street-legal sports car produced by the French automobile manufacturer Delage and launched in 2020 exclusively as a Coupé with a fixed roof. Delage was a French luxury car and racecar company founded in 1905 by Louis Delâge in Paris, acquired by Delahaye in 1935 and ceased […]
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22 September 2022 Carlo Chiti was an Italian racing car and engine designer best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo’s racing department. Chiti joined Alfa Romeo’s experimental department in 1952. His first job was to develop the Alfa Romeo 3000 CM sports car for the 1953 season. He stayed with Alfa Romeo until
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22 September 2022 The Austrian firm KTM, primarily known as a motorcycle manufacturer, has a new road-going X-Bow model called the GT-XR. The KTM X-Bow GT-XR is a road-going equivalent of the company’s X-Bow GT2 track weapon. The GT-XR uses an Audi-sourced 2.5-litre five-cylinder engine tuned to produce 493 horsepower at 6350 rpm, as fitted
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22 September 2022 Following WWII, Raymond Mays and others saw motorsport as an aid to revitalising the British motor industry and as a way to enhance national cohesion and pride. Mays planned to build a world-beating Formula 1 racing car by utilising his networking skills. By 1946 he had persuaded 40 companies and donations from
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COUNTRY CIRCUIT DATE Bahrain Sakhir 5 March 2023 Saudi Arabia Jeddah 19 March 2023 Australia Melbourne 2 April 2023 China Shanghai 16 April 2023 Azerbaijan Baku 30 April 2023 Miami Miami 7 May 2023 Emilia Romagna Imola 21 May 2023 Monaco Monaco 28 May 2023 Spain Barcelona 4 June 2023 Canada
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15 September 2022 Initially, in celebration of Christian von Koenigsegg’s 50th birthday, only 50 CC850s were to be produced. The CC850 is a homage to the single most meaningful car in Koenigsegg history, the CC8S, which put Koenigsegg on the map and made them successful – and celebrating 20 years of production alongside Christian’s 50th
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15 September 2022 With the Silver Ghost, introduced in 1907, Rolls- Royce had set new standards in build quality and reliability. For over 15 years, the 40/50 Silver Ghost was the only model on offer. In May of 1925, Rolls-Royce launched the New Phantom (today known as Phantom I). With increasing competition from the likes
15 September 2022 The launch of a Hypercar will always make news, but a single-seat Batmobile revving to 10,000rpm and for track-use and only 44.4 inches tall, what can I say? Introducing the Rodin FZero. David Dicker, the founder of Rodin Cars, New Zealand, said, ‘The only real restrictions we face are the laws of
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15 September 2022 It was at the 1997 Tokyo International Motor Show that Volkswagen, yes Volkswagen, unveiled a W12 engine configuration Supercar, the W12 Synchro Concept. Giorgetto Giugiaro of the House of ItalDesign was responsible for the design. Bearing in mind that today we take W12 and even W16, as not unusual, in the 90s
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15 September 2022 John Lennon’s song Imagine is a Utopian poem, and like all utopian works, it’s about the present and not the future, and boy has Horatio Pagani decided on the present. He uses a twin-turbocharged 864bhp V8 petrol engine built specifically for him by Mercedes-AMG, with no additional electric motors or heavy batteries,
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