12 March 2022 Kincsem was an unbeaten Hungarian thoroughbred horse with the longest undefeated record of any racehorse. A Swiss startup named Kincsem has plans to launch a line of thoroughbred luxury vehicles, starting with a hypercar. The Jaguar C-X75 concept from 2010 inspired the design. Introduced in 2021, the Kincsem Hyper-GT will be an […]
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12 March 2022 Sir Tim Birkin was the descendant of a notable Nottingham lace-making dynasty. Motor racing was not in his blood, but the second world war had given him an inexhaustible passion for speed and danger. He married and reluctantly joined the family business; neither lasted. By 1928, he had left his wife and
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12 March 2022 A converted 1.6-mile abandoned railway tunnel in the United Kingdom is now a supercar test track. According to a New Civil Engineer article on the project, part of the former Great Central Main Line, the Catesby Tunnel will soon become a 24/7 testing facility for engineering firm Aero Research Partners. According to
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12 March 2022 Before the Urus became what it is today, the LM002 SUV was the only four-door car Lamborghini made and sold to the public. Well, that could’ve been a different story had Lamborghini decided to go through with a concept car that everyone seems to have forgotten about — the Estoque. The Estoque
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12 March 2022 The BMW 507 model series debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1955. A sporty model series aimed at buyers with purchasing power that didn’t exist in Germany and large parts of Europe. The price of the 507 was equivalent to 5.5 times the gross average salary of a German employee at
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12 March 2022 The 650-foot-long car carrier, the Felicity Ace, caught ablaze in February while travelling from Germany to the United States. Nearby ships and helicopters could rescue the 22-person crew without injury; however, the vessel wasn’t as lucky. For weeks, the world watched as the Felicity Ace continued to burn. The vessel sank roughly
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04 March 2022 In 2001, a rare 1938 Talbot Lago ‘Teardrop’ coupé was stolen from a Milwaukee business. The purloined, rare French sports car was put on a ship bound for Switzerland. It appears this is a widespread practice with car thieves. However, the FBI finally caught up with the crook and arrested him in
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04 March 2022 Only 40 Ferrari 250 GTOs were made between 1962 and 1964, and because of their rarity, they are very highly valued. It is not difficult to understand how people, in this case, siblings, could be at each other’s throats. If one of the clan sold a motor car owned by all three
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04 March 2022 It looks like the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato Is Happening. It is going from concept to production, a rally-inspired Supercar, whatever next? The car captures all of the sleek dimensions of a regular Huracán. Fitted out in rally guise, that hasn’t happened since the behemoth, the Lamborghini LM002, built between 1986 and 1993.
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04 March 2022 Roger Dudding, nicknamed ‘Mr Lock-up’, has over 500 motor cars, making it one of the most extensive known collections in Europe. The collection has vehicles dating from a 1911 Vulcan 15.9 HP 2+2 Roadster to a 2017 Rolls-Royce Wraith. He also has the world’s most extensive collection of the largely unknown Clyno
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