On 7 September 2019, Bonhams invites you to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu for a bumper automotive auction. In addition to more than 400 interesting items of automobilia, 125 collector cars will also be offered. The spectrum ranges from the early pioneering days of the motor car to modern classics built at the turn of the new millennium. And many of the latter, in particular, boast attractive pre-sale estimates.
Poised to be revealed at Frankfurt next week and limited to just 63 examples, the Lamborghini Sián is the most advanced car to emerge from Sant’Agata yet. At its heart, there’s a 785HP, 6.5-litre V12 that’s been coupled to a 34HP electric motor that’s powered by a supercapacitor located ’twixt the cabin and the engine room.
Aside from being the home of Classic Driver and introducing the world to weird transformable vehicles that look as though they have been misplaced from the set of A Spy Who Loved Me, Switzerland’s relationship with the motorcar is one of love and hate.
“It’s a milestone that will stand for eternity,” said Bugatti’s president Stephan Winkelmann of Andy Wallace’s record-breaking 304.773mph run at Ehra-Lessien in a somewhat casual announcement from the French hypercar maker considering the magnitude of the achievement.
Midway through 1970, Porsche decided to develop a more aerodynamic version of the short-tailed 917 to match the impressive drag coefficient of the voluptuous Langhek version. Pooling its resources, Porsche sent one team to the SERA wind tunnel in Paris, while another – headed by Richard ‘Dick’ Söderberg – was kept at Weissach.
