š ‘Rolls-Royce once feared speed.’Ā Actively distrusted it, in fact.Ā While rivals chased horsepower and glamour, Rolls-Royce worried that performance was a moral failing ā a dangerous infection threatening its very soul.Ā History, as ever, had other ideas. Ā ā The full story In the years after the First World War, Rolls-Royce found itself facing a problem it
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š ‘They battle the air.’Ā And a century before wind tunnels became corporate temples, a Romanian engineer built a teardrop car so slippery it still embarrasses plenty of todayās āaeroā SUVs.Ā Meet the Persu StreamlinerĀ Proof that aerodynamics didnāt begin with carbon fibre and a marketing department. Ā ā The full story In 1922ā23, Aurel Persu built an
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š ‘They listen to them.’Ā Talk to them.Ā Occasionally, they rely on them more than they probably should.Ā Because to many collectors, cars arenāt objects.Ā Theyāre companions.Ā ā The full story Speak to enough serious collectors and a curious pattern emerges.Ā They rarely describe their cars in mechanical terms. Instead, they talk about personalities.Ā One was temperamental. Another loyal.Ā One always started
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š Gossip & Paddock HeadlinesĀ ā¼ļø Red Bull unveils RB22 2026 car; Verstappen calls new rules āstep into the unknown.āĀ ā¼ļø Red Bull & Racing Bulls launch 2026 liveries with Ford power unit partnership debut.Ā ā¼ļø Ferrari shakes up Lewis Hamiltonās engineering crew with race engineer reassignment.Ā ā¼ļø Alpine and Jack Doohan part ways; Doohan exits the team ahead
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š ‘Between 1962 and 1964, Ferrari built what is now widely regarded as the holy grail of classic cars: the 250 GTO.’Ā Not a styling exercise. Not a luxury statement.Ā But a racing machine built with absolute clarity of purpose.Ā ā¼ļø Only 36 examples were produced, each handcrafted for competition.Ā Aluminium bodywork was shaped by eye, not algorithm.Ā The 3.0-litre
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š ‘Porsche has never been shy of reinvention, but the transformation now underway may be its most consequential yet.’Ā The company faces an uncomfortable reality: to return to the profitability levels expected of a modern luxury manufacturer, it must cut costs by several billion euros.Ā For a brand long associated with engineering indulgence and enviable margins, that
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š ‘Christian Horner, American Capital, and a Very Aston Martin Twist.’ For over 20 years, Christian Horner was Formula 1ās great constant. Eight Driversā Championships.Ā A Red Bull empire.Ā A team principal so embedded in the paddock furniture that imagining F1 without him felt faintly absurd.Ā ā¼ļø And then he was gone.Ā Since Hornerās abrupt exit from Red Bull
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ā¼ļø Sky Sports F1 channel resurfaces after offseason shuffle ā dedicated coverage returns just over a month before pre-season tests kick off in Bahrain (Australia season start March 8). ā¼ļø Mercedes announces launch date for the W17 car ā adding fuel to chatter about Ferrariās own allegedly ārevolutionaryā 2026 design as teams gear up for
š ‘When an 80-year-old workhorse adds leather without apology.’Ā ā± 4-minute readĀ Born as a tool. Hardened by industry. Now quietly civilised.Ā Mercedes-Benz marks 80 years of the Unimog by proving that true icons donāt need to be softened.Ā The Unimog was never meant to be luxurious. Which is precisely why this works.Ā For 80 years, Mercedesā most uncompromising machine
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