Cars

Following the resounding success of the inaugural edition last year, some 50 modern-era competition Ferraris descended on the picturesque Red Bull Ring in Austria earlier this week for the second Challenge & GT Days, a cacophonous extravaganza of Italian sound and speed.

Knobbly Lister, wobbly knees

The tale of time

Did you know Ettore Bugatti was obsessed with horses, and not just the ones beneath the bonnets of his innovative cars? Not only did he ride and breed prized thoroughbreds, but he also designed special harnesses and even a complex brass door-opening mechanism that could be operated by the horses’ mouths, allowing him to ride around his Molsheim headquarters on horseback. 

Our 10 favourites from Bonhams’ Tupelo Automobile Museum sale

Z is for Zagato 

It’s been almost two years since Aston Martin first showed the concept version of the electric Rapide. And now it’s finally revealed the production-ready version, of which just 155 will be built at the marque’s new St Athan plant in Wales, a facility Aston is dubbing its ‘home of electrification’.