Cars

One of our most vivid motorsport memories is of a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 at Le Mans Classic in 2014. It was the dead of night and as the Martini-liveried monster bellowed past us through Indianapolis and towards Arnage, its enormous and awkwardly protruding turbo was aglow with heat. At that point, we remember thinking there wasn’t a cooler car on the planet. And in the presence of that very Porsche today, with its gargantuan whale tail and hilariously wide hips, the fact remains the same. 

The first, the finest? 

On 15 June, Dorotheum will return to Vösendorf just outside Vienna for its Classic Car & Motorcycle Spring Sale 2019, the four-wheeled contingent of which comprises some 60 collector cars of various ages and genres. And though we certainly wouldn’t sniff our noses at the gold 1976 Porsche 930 Turbo 3.0 (est.

Like the latest Continental GT, the third-generation Bentley Flying Spur has been designed from the ground up in Crewe and is loaded with state-of-the-art technology that, according to its maker, will make the four-door Grand Tourer every bit as competent a sports car as it is refined and comfortable a limousine. 

Priced at an extraordinary £6m (excl. taxes) and sold together with a new Zagato-bodied DBS Superleggera, the Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Continuation will make its public debut at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Each of the 19 cars poised to be built at Aston’s historic Newport Pagnell facility represents the culmination of some 4,500 hours of artisanal craftsmanship.