06 October 2022 The Ferrari One-Off, SP51, was designed for a longstanding Taiwan-based client who is also one of Ferrari’s leading collectors. The SP51 sits on a Ferrari 812 GTS chassis allowing the wonderful Ferrari V12 to be front mounted and producing 789hp. All Ferrari’s one-off masterpieces are created at the Ferrari’s Centro Stile in […]
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06 October 2022 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, was the last Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. Forty-plus years after Reza Pahlavi was ousted in the Iranian Revolution, most of his epic car collection makes
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06 October 2022 The Morgan Motor Company is an English motor car manufacturer owned by the Italian investment group Investindustrial. Morgan was founded in 1910 by Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan. Morgan and based in Malvern. It continues to this day to hand-build premium sports cars with a classic design. The Morgan brand is synonymous with
06 October 2022 ❖ To reduce its carbon footprint, BMW is trying something innovative if a bit distasteful: matte-finish paint made out of poop. ❖ Toyota’s CEO, Akio Toyoda, does not believe all-electric vehicles will be adopted as quickly as most think for various reasons. He thinks there will be ‘tremendous shortages’ of lithium and
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06 October 2022 Citröen has a bit of a reputation for designing and producing quirky (Citröen refers to it as innovative) machinery. Their latest ‘ innovative concept’ has just been revealed in Paris, and this radical design may prepare us for the future. This little darling will use a completely electric powertrain; the problem with
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29 September 2022 Ferrari will launch their new 715bhp, V12 powered four-door SUV to the eagerly awaiting public in 2023. The Ferrari Purosangue. The Purosangue or Thoroughbred will sell for around £350,000; to put that into perspective, the Lamborghini Urus is around £177,500, and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan costs less than £300,000. Confusion still exists as
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29 September 2022 Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were childhood friends and had a great relationship as they climbed through the motorsport ranks to make it to Formula One. They became teammates at Mercedes in 2013. Mercedes had the best car when F1’s turbo-hybrid era began in 2014. But things quickly turned sour when a
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29 September 2022 ❖ Zhou Re-signs with Alfa Romeo for the 2023 F1 Season ❖ F1 rules will be tightened to stop Aston Martin rear wing design ❖ Toto Wolff wary of Audi poaching engineers from Mercedes ❖ Formula 1 to double the number of Sprint races from 2023 onwards ❖ Damon Hill reckons that
29 September 2022 ❖ Zhou Re-signs with Alfa Romeo for the 2023 F1 Season ❖ F1 rules will be tightened to stop Aston Martin rear wing design ❖ Toto Wolff wary of Audi poaching engineers from Mercedes ❖ Formula 1 to double the number of Sprint races from 2023 onwards ❖ Damon Hill reckons that
22 September 2022 ❖ Circuit Paul Ricard will not return to the schedule for the 2023 season, which is set to see a record 24 events ❖ While he is not yet considering retirement, at 37 years old Hamilton is in the twilight of his F1 career and may never get his F1 wish after