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Ben Barry,
09 May 2013 16:00
Tues, 7 May. 9.30pm After a flight out of Heathrow and a bewildering detour on a bus, we finally arrive in Maranello for a late dinner at the Museo Ferrari. There's bags of interesting stuff here, but the 288 GTO-based GTO Evoluzione [left] catches my eye - it never raced, but fed into the F40 project – as does the F40 Competizione, ...
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Ollie Kew,
08 March 2013 16:40
The world premieres of the LaFerrari and McLaren P1 were special, rare moments: it’s a decade since Ferrari unveiled the Enzo, and twice that since McLaren stunned the world with the F1. Yet the planets all aligned at the 2013 Geneva motor show, where production versions of both supercar heavyweights’ latest flagships were shown, ten minutes and a few hundred ...
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Tim Pollard,
28 November 2012 09:42
Is it just us, or does the baddy in new Bond flick Skyfall look suspiciously like 007's own Aston Martin DB5? We've just watched the new James Bond movie and can't help but notice how Javier Bardem's distinctive mouth echoes the outline of the DB5's elegant grille. Well, I've heard them say the grille is the mouth of a car, ...
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Rory Smith,
18 September 2012 09:01
It's been some time since we've seen traffic like this on one of the UK's best known racetracks. All of the necessary evidence has now been submitted to confirm the 964-strong meeting of Ferraris at Silverstone to be a Guinness world record. Felipe Massa led the parade at the wheel of a 458 Spider, while the 964 cars shattered the ...
As always, the 007 hype goes through the roof when there's a new Bond film on the way, and with Skyfall set to hit silver screens in October 2012, we're already salivating over the prospect of another classic Bond chase sequence to join the memorable scenes from movies gone by. If you're a Bond chase fan, this Sky promo video ...
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Keith Botsford,
24 August 2012 09:00
Enzo Ferrari is a big man. Big, fleshy nose. Big, loose mouth. Big, solid body. The next thing that you notice about him is that he bears about as much resemblance to most car makers and the rest of motor racing’s constructors as an ageing lion to a day-long mayfly. And then, quick upon that, there’s the realisation that he’s ...
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Ben Oliver,
06 August 2012 09:00
McLaren people refer to it as Unit 2. It is the polar opposite of their extraordinary, Space Odyssey McLaren Technical Centre headquarters in Woking, with its glass walls and cooling lake and famous architect and unnerving clinical sterility. Instead, Unit 2 is a low, 1980s, brick-built former factory on an industrial estate. I’ve been asked not to tell you where ...
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Gavin Green,
25 July 2012 09:00
They gather on a gorgeous spring day, the sky a deep Bugatti blue, to pay homage to the 60th anniversary of the greatest sports car maker in the world. Nine cars, six of which represent the best of the breed, the others a trio of tempting real-world propositions. Appropriately all but two of the Ferraris are blood red – that ...
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Gavin Green,
24 July 2012 17:37
There are no 200mph-plus hybrid supercars on sale and then suddenly, like London buses, four come along all at once. The new Ferrari Enzo F150, mega McLaren P12, Porsche 918 Spyder and Jaguar C-X75 will all likely compete in the rarefied circa $1 million price band when they hit the road in a few years (probably 2013-14). But that’s where ...
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Doug Blain,
11 July 2012 15:52
So the Miura is dead. Beset by pollution problems, hemmed in by speed limits, noise restrictions and the ruinous cost of fuel, and finally knocked on the head by the safety lobby in several countries at once, the last of the great extrovert of supercars has gone.With it, of course, goes a way of life. One could almost say that ...
