The recipe’s a simple but effective one: take one small car, bolt in a massive engine, strap in, hold on tight. This is the Rocketeer NC, a Mk3 Mazda MX-5 with a Ford V6 stuffed in its nose. You’ll know this recipe from Rocketeer’s NA (Mk1 MX-5) and NB (Mk2) cars, of course, so it’s only…
Remember Alpina? Not the new BMW iteration, but the old one that did stuff like this. Old Alpina is now called Bovensiepen—after the man who started the original company—and continues to knock out modified BMWs. Like this one. It’s called the Bovensiepen Spider, and as thine eyes will attest, it is a modified BMW Z4….
“Urus is definitely a competitor. DBX definitely. Purosangue, I’m not sure,” says McLaren Automotive’s COO Michael Straughan as he gives us our best steer yet on what to expect from the Brit carmaker’s upcoming SUV. “The Ferrari concept is very different to the rest of the competitive set. Wait until you see the styling of…
We’ll repeat that, because those words in that order don’t appear to make a lot of sense: Monaco—the Formula 1 circuit famous for its lack of overtaking—will host an F1 Sprint race—a format predicated on an abundance of overtaking—in 2027. Right… The only logical explanation is that Formula 1 bosses have spent the summer chugging…
McLaren has confirmed that it will invest £500 million (around P41.2 billion) to expand its manufacturing and engineering operations in the UK, with the cash creating “at least 1,000 direct and indirect jobs across McLaren’s UK operations by 2032.” The investment—which forms part of a larger commitment by shareholder L’IMAD, a sovereign investor of the…
