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“That’s not a car, it’s a cheat code,” whispers our sound recordist Andrei. He’s the only one able to talk. The rest of us have been rendered silent. Somewhere in the distance a fast receding blue speck flits out of sight. There is no revolution in car design any more, goes the common thinking. Everything is incremental. A nudge more power, a tweak more downforce, a modest uplift in speed and grip. A gradual evolution of specification. Balls to that. You want radical? Welcome to the age of the fan. I’ve never seen or experienced anything like the McMurtry Spéirling. Never driven a faster car, either in a straight line or around corners. In one package McMurtry has created a machine so bizarre it accelerates like a dragster, turns like…

Winter is coming. That’s what they say. The doomed tone has grown darker with every passing year. In the quest to reduce emissions there are fines levied, new generations of EVs launched to save us from ourselves and a trail of closed factories. Hot hatches once thrived and now they’re an endangered species. Sports cars are built in tiny numbers not because of demand but so as not to hurt fleet average emissions. Supercars have gone hybrid or electric just to survive. And are dying in the process. The cold, bleak outlook is scarier than a White Walker soaring overhead on a freshly reanimated dragon. And yet today the sun seems warmer than usual. Italy seems even more beautiful. The Gran Sasso massif shimmers and the rolling hills and plains…

IF you were to pick a road on which to have a go in a classic Porsche 911 Turbo, it wouldn’t be this one. Time has chewed hard on this landscape, leaving the edges of the B6278 ragged and cracked, cambers drooping, tumerous bumps the rule rather than the exception. It looks like the tarmac had a tantrum and left itself exhausted – any lack of suspension will get found out within metres. And let’s face it, old 911 Turbos are bitey, famously unforgiving of inattention or a skills gap. It’s enough to give you palpitations. And that’s not all. Although it seems appropriate that we’re in a Californian car in Holliwood – the misplaced consonant equates to the North Pennines in the UK rather than America – it means…

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GROWING PAINS IT’S STILL A PROTOTYPE AND it will change before it reaches production. The wheelbase will be increased 80mm to liberate space for a 100kWh rather than a 60kWh battery, and free up some storage space behind the driver A GOOD AIRING THERE IS CONVENTIONAL USE of aerodynamics – not just the rear wing, but a front splitter and inlets to channel air to cool the brakes and motors. Underneath, some air is channeled around the suction skirt BIGGER BOOTS THIS IS THE SECOND GEN Spéirling, the Pure and it’s grown from the first prototype. Now 80mm wider overall, with off the shelf slick tyres 50mm wider all round – 270s at the front, 300s at the rear PILING ON THE POUNDS SECOND GEN PROTOTYPE WEIGHS JUST over a…

“WE HAD TO DECIDE YEARS AGO, FROM SCRATCH, TO DO SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL, COMPLETELY NEW” How best to follow up one of the most successful Lamborghini supercars ever built? Ditch its key USP. Make it more… comfortable. Spin the Random Fighting Bull Name Generator wheel. This is the follow up to the Huracán: welcome to the new Lamborghini Temerario, a car that replaces the transcendental, nat-asp V10 for [shudders] a battery, three electric motors and a turbo V8. It’s also a car that claims a new found focus on comfort. Perhaps it should have been named The Tempest, because swapping one of the finest free breathing V10s of the modern age for a hybrid V8 and more comfort suggests hell truly is empty, and all the devils are here. At least…

TIME FOR THE EMERGENCY STOP. I check my mirrors and, as instructed, pull over on the left-hand side of the road for the pre-briefing. I check my mirrors again. Can’t be too careful. “I’d now like you to perform an emergency stop. When I raise my hand and say ‘stop’, I want you to…” While my examiner talks, I’m dimly aware of a figure swaggering out of the Best One opposite. A pair of heavy knees appear at the window, then a dripping ice cream and finally a face. It’s having to stoop a long way down. What’s the etiquette now? Are you allowed to interact with a member of the public during your driving test? Aren’t I under exam conditions? Since the car is safe, handbrake on and in…

01 Marc Philipp Gemballa Marsien WHO TOM FORD PHOTOGRAPHY MARK RICCIONI You’d think that bombing around dunes in a 580k, one of only 40, modified Porsche under the paternal gaze of the man who came up with the project would give you anxiety, but after about three minutes, you’re laughing and trying to get the RUF-tuned engine to boost you up a sand dune like some sort of 959 Dakar remake. This is the Marc Philipp Gemballa Marsien, and it’s basically a 911 Turbo S with adjustable rally suspension, all carbon bodywork and 830bhp. And it makes mincemeat of pretty much any surface. But the thing here is the confidence with which it tackles off road. It’s armoured underneath, but you really can fling it about and bounce it off…

WE UNDERSTAND DOWNFORCE THESE days. We mainly understand that cars look better with wings, whether they’re necessary or not for road cars is another matter. Anyway, Porsche’s 911 GT3 RS is about as sophisticated as road legal wings get – 409kg of downforce at 125mph, 860kg at 186mph. We’ve timed 0–60mph in 3.14secs. Yet thanks to the extra drag caused by pulling that great wing through the air, even with its DRS enabled, it’s actually slower above 100mph than Porsche’s junior version, the Cayman GT4 RS. Follow Through is Dunsfold’s fastest corner, where the Porsche’s downforce is most switched on. Through there the GT3 RS pulls 117mph and peaks at 1.77g. That’s immense. The McMurtry is up over 140mph, pulling pulling a peak of 3.39g. ACCELERATION FIGURES When I drove…

“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART, THE SCULPTURE, THE LUXURY” Where to start? It’s a toss up between wing mirror and gearbox. And the weather come to think of it. But let’s go with the initial plan and tell you about the side mirror. Because look at it. It’s more steampunk street lamp than functional item. Wonderful, but needlessly elaborate. Welcome to the world of the Pagani Utopia – a Jules Verne fever dream for the 23rd century. Done with the mirror? Then have a look at those bonkers carbon wheel spats, the brake calipers like bronze knuckle dusters, the elegant slivers of aluminium, the leather buckles, the roof portholes. It’s a 1930s vision of the far future, Flash Gordon’s motor conveyance. Pagani likes to claim its cars perfectly balance art…