Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year, Lamborghini celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Jalpa, presented for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1981. In keeping with Lamborghini tradition, the Jalpa takes its name from a breed of fighting bulls, the Jalpa Kandachia, and is the Sant’Agata Bolognese carmaker’s last evolutionContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesBentley Motors is celebrating a centenary of sales to extraordinary customers, with 100 years since the brand’s first. A 3-Litre model registered in 1921 as KS 1661 was purchased by wealthy Londoner Noel van Raalte, who enjoyed a passion for racing exceptional motor cars and whose family owned Brownsea Island,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesAston Martin Works – the heritage home of the great British automotive marque – is this month marking an important anniversary for one of the supercars created at its historic site, the original V12 Vanquish, which was revealed publicly 20 years ago.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing its debut at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, the Lamborghini Countach LP 500 reconstructed by the company’s Polo Storico division was the headliner on 9 October at the “Countach LP 500: The Shakedown” event at the Vizzola Ticino racetrack, in the presence of the collector who commissioned the reconstructionContinue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutes• Rolls-Royce reflects on heritage of electric power ahead of historic announcement • Extraordinary prophecy of founding father, Charles Rolls, revealed • Rolls championed electric cars in 1900, deeming Columbia model best of its type • Royce, one of the first electrical engineers, supplied motors to earliest electric cars •Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Countach LP 500 has returned, entered in the class reserved for concept cars at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. It is a passionate reconstruction carried out by Automobili Lamborghini’s Polo Storico that required over 25,000 hours of work on behalf of an important collector. The contribution of the LamborghiniContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith cutting-edge hyper sports cars, some of the world’s most successful racing cars and approximately 1,000 patents to his name, Ettore Bugatti established the Bugatti brand’s relentless quest for perfection through innovation, defying the norm at every turn. It’s an ethos that endures to this day and into an all-newContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is the secret behind a car that immediately became an icon and that has remained one for a full decade now? Was this super sports car, which has now become part of our collective imagination, born out a continuous search for perfection down to the last detail, or wasContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesAston Martin is celebrating the centenary of its oldest surviving car – ‘A3’ – by building a modern day tribute based on one of its most dynamic and exhilarating series production sports cars, the new Vantage Roadster.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe distinctively contemporary lines of the Lamborghini Countach, a legendary model celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, shaped the design of all subsequent Lamborghinis even up to today’s models, including the Aventador, Huracán, Sián, as well as the Urus.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe London Concours, presented by Montres Breguet, is a luxurious automotive garden party hosted right in the heart of the City of London from Tuesday 8th – Thursday 10th June. This hugely exciting automobile extravaganza will see 80 of the world’s most precious cars gather in the gardens of theContinue Reading