22 July 2022 In 2000, Pininfarina S.p.A, one of the biggest names in the automotive design industry, celebrated its 70th anniversary by revealing a Ferrari concept car at the 2000 Paris Motor Show. The Ferrari Rossa was an anniversary prototype and a modern reinterpretation of the 1958 Testa Rossa. The Ferrari Rossa on a prototype […]
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22 July 2022 The future of Aston Martin – which has been on the verge of bankruptcy eight times in its tumultuous 109-year history is being boosted by a massive new Saudi investment. Earlier this year, Tobias Moers, Aston’s CEO, left hurriedly; soon after, Aston Martin made a pre-tax loss of £111.6m in 2022’s first
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22 July 2022 ‘The Parties were bigger. The pace was faster. The shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser, and the liquor was cheaper.’F Scott Fitzgerald on the 1920s. Al Capone, or Alphonse Capone, also called Scarface, was an American Prohibition-era gangster who dominated organised crime in Chicago and became perhaps
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15 July 2022 The Auto Union V16 Type C Streamline ’37 was a race car produced by Horch and Auto Union. That’s when, in 1932, the four companies Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer joined to form Auto Union AG, which would later become AUDI AG. And the company needed a new logo. The four interlocking
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15 July 2022 Exclusive! The new Bugatti will still use the W16 and be a Roadster. Back in mid-2020, a rumour regarding Bugatti building a one-off Chiron roadster was ‘doing the rounds; it kinda’ made sense since Bugatti hadn’t used the Chiron architecture for open-top. Before the Chiron, the Veyron offered the Grand Sport Roadster.
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15 Julyb2022 Wilfredo Ricart, the design director for Alfa Romeo between 1936-45, was a man who crossed swords with Enzo Ferrari many a time. Ricart left Alfa Romeo to join ENASA, a Spanish motor vehicle manufacturing company incorporated in 1946 after having bought the automotive assets of the Spanish Hispano-Suiza and the Italian Fiat in
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15 July 2022 It doesn’t seem possible that it was as far back as late 2012 when the McLaren P1 debuted at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. Sales of the P1 began in the United Kingdom in October 2013, and by November 2013, all 375 units had been sold. The McLaren P1 is one of
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15 July 2022 The 1947 Geneva Motor Show saw the launch of the first Gran Turismo in Maserati history: the Tipo A6, better known as the A6 1500 Gran Turismo. The A6 1500 Gran Turismo was the first road-going Maserati automobile—a profound sports car designed by Pininfarina. It was the first road-going Maserati, of which only 61 examples were ever built.
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15 July 2022 As with several manufacturers, a separate luxury division exists, for example, Toyota and Lexus, Hyundai and Genesis, so it is with Citröen and DS Automobiles. Enter the DS E-Tense Performance is an electric concept car. Little is known at this juncture about the DS E-Tense except that it uses two electric motors
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08 July 2022 Rolls-Royce debuted A New Exclusive Boat Tail at the 2022 Concorsa d’Elegance, Villa d’esme. A client whom I understand is a patron of the arts with extensive knowledge of luxury commissioned the car. The car, or should we say ‘her’ as is customary when referring to matters maritime, has been customised to
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