Market Find: The Unfair Advantage ‘The Jaguar SS was one of the fastest and best-handling sports cars of its day.’ • Widely considered one of the most aesthetically pleasing sporting cars of the 1930s, the SS is also very rare. • In September 1935, SS launched their most advanced and significant new car, the first […]
Market Find: The Unfair Advantage • The new McLaren Artura has a Twin-turbocharged 3.0 litre V6, and an Eight-speed gearbox and produces 671 bhp, it uses McLaren’s new Carbon Lightweight Architecture, and the Inertia Push transmission swaps gears so quickly that the engine doesn’t have a chance to reduce in speed. Market View ‘When driven
Market Find: The Unfair Advantage As Enzo Ferrari famously said, ‘ the most beautiful car ever made, and it is difficult to disagree.’ • Designed by Malcolm Sayer, a pioneer of automotive aerodynamics, who also designed the Jaguar D-Type. • The Jaguar E-Type is one of those rare cars that will always get hearts pumping;
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12 May 2023 France was the epicentre of motorsport in the early 1900s. Almost every city had a circuit. In 1906, a cluster of French car enthusiasts established the Automobile Club de la Sarthe, which transformed into the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO). In 1903, the Paris-Madrid race, held on open roads, was lethal; Marcel
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12 May 2023 In engineering circles, when Pagani is mentioned, thoughts become obsessed with industrial design purity. The detail is spiritual, even down to the bolts, they could all be steel but are titanium, saving negligible weight; each bolt also has ‘Pagani’ engraved around the head. This is the kind of detail Horacio Pagani is
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12 May 2023 In 2014, Joel Zimmerman, a Canadian electronic music producer better known as Deadmau5, did the unspeakable; he decided to personalise his Ferrari. Personal taste is always subjective; however, it is a little more complex than that. Mr Deadmaus5 produced a YouTube promotional video that featured a flying animated cat, christened Nyan Cat.
12 May 2023 Next Grand Prix: Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. 21 May 2023 Track: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari ✺ Sergio Perez demands Red Bull’ investigation’ after Max Verstappen’s pace in Miami. ✺ Mercedes fails in bid to poach Adrian Newey from F1 rivals Red Bull as Toto Wolff mocked. ✺ Leclerc explains ‘huge’ Ferrari
05 May 2023 Having started a little research, I was amazed at the number of Fathers and Sons involved in Formula 1. Graham Hill & Damon Hill Jos Verstappen & Max Verstappen Gilles Villeneuve & Jacques Villeneuve Jan Magnussen & Kevin Magnussen Ralf Schumacher & David Schumacher Nelson Piquet & Nelson Piquet Jr Carlos Sainz
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05 May 2023 On 1 December 1914, in Bologna, Maserati was born. To celebrate its centenary, a very limited-edition motor car was built and unveiled at the 2015 Villa d’Este Concorso d’Elegance, welcome the Maserati Mostro Zagato. Zagato is an independent coachbuilding business that manufactures hand-made motor cars to commemorate special dates for marques. Zagato
05 May 2023 The Automobile Age Began on Three Wheels. Leonardo da Vinci’s 1475 design for a clockwork, self-powered vehicle had three wheels; In Cornwall, 1801, Richard Trevithick’s ‘puffing devil’, a steam-powered machine, had three wheels. Carl Benz’s Motorwagen of 1885, widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and the first car put
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