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…
It’s official, Bond is back and he’ll be chasing down villains in a brand new ride, a specially designed Aston Martin DB10. You can stop pondering those Fiat 500 rumours now. Cast members gathered at Pinewood Studios yesterday for the big reveal. While Director Sam Mendes was disclosing the 24th Bond movie’s title (Spectre – which…
Since Rolls Royce have been finding happy customers for the Phantom Drophead for many years, Bentley have decided ‘anything you can do…’ Bentley recently announced their new Grand Convertible concept car. There’s a delicious irony when a brand that’s as British as cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, stiff upper lips and ceaseless grey…
The things we buy are getting smarter. Many of them now know how to do all kinds of things we don’t. You’re not missing out on much when you don’t understand how to operate the eco-function on your washing machine or the reading mode option on your Samsung S5. But what about your new £190,000 car?…