The Cart and the Horse

08 December 2022 Enzo’s creed was, ‘The Horse has to pull the cart, not push it. So when the idea of a rear-engined motor car was mooted, Enzo Ferrari was not enthralled with the concept. That is, until Sergio Pininfarina, the master of Italian style and Luigi Chinetti, the Italian race car driver, presented the

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The Prince, the Bulldog and the Flower Pot

08December 2022 Aston Martin’s Engineering director Mike Loasby sketched a mechanical layout that would be packaged beneath an extraordinary silhouette; The Aston Martin Bulldog. It only progressed a little. Loasby left to join DeLorean, and Aston’s management was preoccupied with the Lagonda, whose metamorphosis from concept to production car was proving painful and long-winded. In

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The Humble Racer

08 December 2022 ‘Driving fast on the track doesn’t scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway, I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.’ – Juan Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio was born on 24 June 1911 and died of kidney failure and pneumonia on 17 July 1995.

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Hold on to your Hats

06 December 2022 Founded in 1997, Radical is a Cambridge-based company that produces what it calls ‘sports racing cars’ for Gentlemen Racers. There are nine models to pick from, two of which are road legal, and just three have closed cockpits. The current cars have a range of engines. They span from the 1.4-litre Suzuki

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Move over Mr Rimac

06 December 2022 First unveiled four years ago, the Pininfarina Battista only went into production earlier this summer, but it’s already setting records. Performance figures for the Battista all-electric hyper GT The Battista made its dynamic debut in Dubai, where it accelerated to 60 mph in just 1.79 seconds, breaking the previous record of 1.86

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