25 February 20222 The Ferrari Purosangue will compete with the Lamborghini Urus and other super SUVs..This vehicle will be Ferrari’s first SUV, which it wants to call an FUV, and will feature a yet-to-be-announced drivetrain. The Purosangue is likely Ferrari’s last NA V12 series production model. I understand the vehicle will have an all-new V12 […]
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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11 February 2022 In February 1957, the Citroën DS in various shapes and colours was displayed at a contemporary art fair in Paris. The theme is ‘la DS est un oeuvre d’art’. The DS is a work of art. In 1957 an essay by French author Roland Barthes described the cars as ‘almost the exact
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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
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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
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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
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