Some of you may have seen the Phantom Drophead Nighthawk special edition on display at this year’s Super Bowl but Rolls Royce have now made the nine cars available to buyers in North America. As the name implies, the Nighthawk is inspired by the iconic Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter jet – hopefully the purchase price won’t be the same…
Bugatti has just sold its 450th – and last ever – Veyron, drawing to a close one of the most powerful and exclusive megacars ever built. Nostalgic types will no doubt witness the passing of Bugatti’s iconic ride with bittersweet sentimentality. On the flip side, given the phenomenal spending costs that go into every unit Volkswagen AG will…
The uniting of the iconic Martini racing stripes with leading powerboat builders Vector was, on paper, a recipe for success. On water it has proved to be the stuff of champions.
Straight out of McLaren’s Special Operations Division and yours for £244,500, the 650S ‘Le Mans’ is street legal and ready to rumble. MSO’s special edition model celebrates the epic day in 1995 when five McLaren F1 GTR models finished the Le Mans 24hr race, coming in 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 13th, testifying to the dominance of McLaren’s…
When the tender to the 73m, €17.5 million motor yacht Yalla whips across the waters at wind-swept speeds of 40 knots to pick up guests from the port it is doing more than merely transporting them to the main attraction. This is an extension of one of the world’s largest and most luxurious vessels reaching out…
Bentley’s all-new and ground-breaking luxury SUV will be revealed to the world later this year and a name has been chosen: Bentley Bentayga. The name, released at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, comes from the ‘Roque Bentayga’, a rugged and challenging mountain peak in the Canary Islands, where volcanic eruptions have formed vertical cliffs, cracks and…
When it comes to family trees, charting the ancestry of the modern supercar is a whole lot more interesting than discovering you had a Great Aunt Maude, we think. The 20th century’s most obsessed over invention has been subject to epic levels of evolution. From the brute force of the Ford GT40, to the drama of…
Thomas Patterson throws away his harpoon (and nautical literary references) to chill out on the deck of the world’s biggest five-mast ship. Keats and Byron, Coogan and Brydon – all have romanticised in verse or sitcom the Amalfi Coast, that gorgeous scoop of coastline that sweeps down Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula. Byron toured Amalfi in a…
Robert Clayman lets the train take the strain before Aston Martin’s latest polishes remove any sense of tension or stress in a brisk jaunt around Cornwall. The rain is coming in horizontally now. I peer out through the window of the 9.30 to Penzance that I’d nearly died running for (note to all cab…
Introducing the Willys AW380 Berlineta, a reworked version of the Alpine A108, the Brazilian sports car that racked up an impressive run of racing wins in the Sixties. And it’s not even a concept car, this is a reality. Around €380,000 of reality, in fact. About 50 years ago, Willys-Overland built 822 units of a model…
