Road-going DBs weren’t Sir David Brown’s only achievements as managing director of Aston Martin, and he also brought the British brand back to the race track by launching the DBR series in the early 1950s. More importantly, Brown approved the development of Aston Martin’s only outright Le Mans winner to date. The specific car is …
In 2018, Ferrari, which has manufactured sports cars since 1939, announced a new range of special edition vehicles in its lineup known as ‘Icona’, celebrating some of the Italian manufacturer’s classic Ferrari designs for the modern epoch. The Daytona has a wholly unique design that is the Ferrari’s most aerodynamically efficient model ever built. Just …
Cizeta Automobili SRL was a supercar manufacturer and repairer in Modena, Italy, set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli, an Italian auto engineer and Lamborghini driver. One of his customers was a three-time Oscar winner and composer Giorgio Moroder, who had Zampolli service his Countach. Giorgio Moroder, widely cited as the Father of …
The Beautiful Bolide is a track-only car, allowing Bugatti to avoid many restrictions on road-going vehicles. In so doing, they have produced a very high-performance motor car. The Bolide is a halo car permitting ardent fans to drool over and not a source of commercial profit for Bugatti. The Bolide — a name that comes …
Maserati started naming its cars after famous winds; this began in 1963 with the Mistral, followed by Ghibli, Bora, Merak, Khamsin, Karif and Shamal, in 2016 Levante, and now the Grecale. The Maserati Mistral was a 2-seat Gran Turismo produced by Maserati between 1963 and 1970. The successor to the 3500 GT was styled by …
The Hennessey Venom F5 is a sports car developed and manufactured by the American tuner come vehicle-manufacturing company Hennessey Special Vehicles of Texas, established in 2017. Hennessey has contracted with Delta Motorsport of Silverstone for the development of the vehicle. In 2017 the Hennessey Venom was unveiled in concept form. The hypercar made its debut …
A Hydrogen racing truck designed by Pininfarina is to take part in the 2022 Dakar Rally. Gaussin is developing hydrogen-based long-haul trucking. A French company is playing up hydrogen’s excellent range figures and quick refuelling times as a benefit over heavy, slow-charging batteries. It’s developing a flexible skateboard chassis you can build all sorts of …
Yamaha started life as a piano and reed organ manufacturer in 1887, then expanded to building motorcycles in 1954. Later the firm collaborated with Toyota to help design the celebrated Toyota 2000 GT, launched at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show. Once ready for production, they built the car between 1967 and 1970. In 1989, Yamaha …
William Towns designed the Aston Martin Bulldog in the late ‘70s to become the world’s fastest production car. To that end, in 1981, the Bulldog did hit a record-breaking 192 mph, which made it the quickest car of the day, but it did not achieve the elusive 200 mph mark. The original plan was to …
A Frenchman dreamed up the idea of the modern internal-combustion engine, and a German gave it life. It was Italian Enzo Ferrari who made it sing. The latest Ferrari 812 iteration, the Ferrari 812 Competizione, is a naturally aspirated, front-engined, rear-wheel drive, 6.5 litres, V12, producing 819hp, the top speed of 340 kph and 0-100 …