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18 February 2022 Josef Ganz was born in Hungary to a Jewish family which then moved to Vienna. He then moved to Germany, where he took up German citizenship fought in the German Navy during WWI. Engineer Josef Ganz shocked the people of Frankfurt by racing his revolutionary May Bug prototype on the city streets

18 February 2022 Jay Leno said, ‘the only real supercar that’s for the guy who can’t afford the Ferrari or the Lamborghini.’ He referred to the 1970s Pantera, a little-known car from the little-known maker De Tomaso — little known, at least, compared with Ferrari or Lamborghini. Alejandro De Tomaso was an Argentine racing driver

18 February 2022 Formula 1 will hold three sprint races this year following a compromise was found over money concerns. Success last year in increasing action and excitement with a grid-setting short Saturday race, F1 had intended to double the number of sprints to six in 2022. Some top teams wanted the cost cap to

11 February 2022 Mercedes-Benz didn’t have an apparent and intelligent marketing strategy when they launched the 190 in December 1982. By the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz decided it needed a new entry-level model to take on the BMW 3 Series and Audi 80. But rather than rush its launch and produce a cut-price car, Mercedes is said

11 February 2022 Gordon Murray Design. A  lot has been written about Gordon Murray recently, especially regarding the T50 and the latest iteration, the T33. But the man is as interesting as his cars; he was born 18 June 1946 to Scottish immigrant parents and grew up in Durban, South Africa. His father was a

Codename C10 has been ‘leaked’ online; this could be the successor to the Pagani Huayra. The C10 was to debut at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show to celebrate the marque’s 20th anniversary. For various reasons, the first deliveries are, hopefully, for 2023. Surprisingly, the Pagani Huayra has been around for over ten years, meaning a

Displacement must be at the heart of Porsche’s rationale, their motorsport divisions prototype for the  LMDh (Le Mans Daytona) will be used in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship from 2022 alongside Le Mans Hypercars. The prototype will race in the new Grand Touring Prototype class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship from

Whilst we are all anticipating the arrival of the mid-engined Mercedes-AMG Project ONE, what is less well known was that Mercedes-Benz was already working on a similar concept in the early 1960s. The intention was to fit the engine behind the passengers, ensuring the centre of gravity was as low as possible. Designers Paul Bracq

The boom for high-end, ultra-exclusive and ludicrously expensive supercars has never been more robust. It seems the world’s wealthy are more affluent than ever before, and if you can produce a motor car with a hefty price tag and low production numbers, they will sell. It’s this boom that has drawn one of the most