02 July 2022 Cost £5.02 million before tax and will make only 50. There’s a new player in the hypercar game, and its name is Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT). In Formula One terms, Adrian Newey OBE is a certified genius, a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the chief technical officer of the […]
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02 July 2022 The McLaren Technology Centre, built between 1999 and 2004, is stunning and futuristic. The facility is built like no other; its design is state-of-the-art, encourages innovation and inspires every one of the 3,000 individuals who work there. The McLaren ethos is ‘Everything for a Reason’, and that ethos permeates through every department.
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02 July 2022 Vehicle pollutants harm our health and contain greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Burning gasoline and diesel fuel create harmful by-products like nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, benzene, and formaldehyde. According to a recent study, the average use of an old car hardly pollutes the environment. How polluting is driving a classic
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02 July 2022 The stunning Pagani Huayra Codalunga (in Italian, it means long-tail) is improved with styling inspired by the Golden Age of sportscar racing. From the first glimpse, you know just what the Pagani Grandi Complicazioni Department was trying to achieve with the Codalunga. If you were to take it and place it on
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02 July 2022 I had the opportunity of visiting the Goodwood Festival of Speed, thanks to the good offices of McLaren; not only that, I had the rare pleasure (not sure about the pleasure) of being driven there by my son in a McLaren 720S Spider. The Goodwood Festival of Speed claims to be the
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01 July 2022 In 2015 Zagato introduced the Mostro coupé at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, overlooking one of the most romantic lakes in the world, Lake Como. In 2022, Zagato debuted the Barchetta roofless version of the limited-run supercar at the same venue. The first owner took delivery of the first production example at this year’s
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01 July 2022 Ruf has been around since the 1950s. They are most famously known from the late 1970s and early 1980s for their SCR, BTR, and CTR. Ruf Automobile GmbH is a German car manufacturer. The company manufactures vehicles using unmarked Porsche chassis, known explicitly as bodies in white. By looking at the VIN
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01 July 2022 The House of Bertone created several concept cars for Jaguar, from the 1957 Xk150-based coupé to the B99 two-door saloon, unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Less than a year later, the House of Bertone was gone. A tribunal concluded that the brilliant accomplishments of Nuccio Bertone, who died on 26
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01 July 2022 The Ferrari SP48 Unica debuts as a one-off F8 Tributo without a rear window; you wouldn’t tell immediately since the body was extensively changed meant Ferrari had to re-work the airflows for cooling and downforce. While the Unica sit on the F8’s platform, the SP48, the design feels more in line with
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01 July 2022 At the beginning of the 20th Century, Oscar Wilde commented, ‘My dear boy, no woman is a genius – women are the decorative sex.’ Sadly this opinion was not uncommon, and it was regarded as positively outrageous and shocking if a woman considered motoring at all, let alone enter a road race!
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