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📍 ‘Bugatti Type 57 Grand Raid.’ The 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Grand Raid was what happened when Jean Bugatti took a capable grand tourer and dressed it for the Riviera. Its long bonnet, swept wings, and twin aerodynamic headrest pods made it look less like transport and more like an Art Deco speedboat that had escaped

📍 ‘The Secrets of Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari F40.’ Lewis Hamilton wanted an F40 with low mileage and a proper story. He found one that had travelled just 69 kilometres from Maranello, entered a private garage and remained there for more than three decades. Then Ferrari removed the engine—and discovered the number 44 stamped upon it. Sometimes fate

📍 ‘Monza was supposed to be Kimi Antonelli’s difficult weekend.’ A power-unit penalty dropped him to 19th on the grid. Ferrari had the Tifosi. Mercedes had the problem. Then Antonelli won. At Formula One’s fastest circuit, the Italian teenager turned adversity into theatre — and made the championship look rather less like a contest.  Full Story 📍 ‘Monza does

📍 ’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