📍 ’Why Sant’Agata Never Needed a Prancing Horse.’ Ferruccio Lamborghini supposedly entered the car business after falling out with Enzo Ferrari. So, you might assume the raging bull on his badge was simply another two-fingered salute towards Maranello. Delightful theory. Unfortunately, it isn’t true. The bull was Ferruccio himself. ♔ Full Story ▪️ Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on 28 April 1916,

📍 ‘Maslow, Luxury — and Why We Buy the Car We Don’t Need.’ A Rolls-Royce, Ferrari or Bentley performs broadly the same fundamental task as a perfectly respectable family saloon. It moves people. Which rather begs the question: why does anyone spend £300,000 doing something that £30,000 can accomplish? Abraham Maslow may have supplied part of the answer

📊‘The Market Has Money. It Just Wants the Right Cars.’ The collector-car market is providing a useful lesson in the difference between expensive and important. Monterey produced extraordinary numbers at the very top, including a $42.9 million Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe and a $34.7 million McLaren F1 GTR. The money hasn’t disappeared. It has simply become considerably

🏁 Zandvoort has departed Formula One in characteristic fashion: noise, drama and absolutely no intention of slipping quietly out through the side door. Now the paddock heads for Monza. Mercedes has an intriguing problem; Ferrari has the inevitable Italian expectations — and McLaren has quietly removed one very important driver from Formula One’s future shopping list.  ♔

 📊If anyone was waiting for the collector-car market to collapse, Monterey has been rather unhelpful. The 2026 auctions produced extraordinary headline numbers, including a record result for a British car. But underneath the fireworks, the more interesting message remains unchanged: The market isn’t buying everything. It is buying the right things.  Full Story ▪️Market temperature: Selectively very strong. ▪️Monterey

🚩 Some racing cars look fast. The Bugatti Type 35 looked as though it had been drawn by somebody who considered ugliness a personal failing. Yet beneath that extraordinary elegance sat one of the most formidable competition cars ever created. A century later, the Type 35 remains the rare thing that modern performance cars spend millions

📍 ‘Zandvoort Bows Out in Style.’ ▪️The Dutch Grand Prix said goodbye to Formula One with precisely the sort of afternoon it deserved: rain, strategy, team orders, a home hero in the wall ▪️And Lando Norris quietly winning the whole thing. ▪️Norris converted pole into his second consecutive Grand Prix victory, but it was anything

📍 ‘Some racing cars retire. Others never even make it to the starting grid.’ In 2007, Koenigsegg built the CCGT to take on Le Mans. Then the regulations changed and the dream disappeared before the car contested a single race. Nearly 20 years later, Christian von Koenigsegg has settled the matter. ♔ The result? The