Cars

A homage to the Ferrari 166 MM

Two years ago, Zuffenhausen chose Geneva to unveil the latest Porsche 911 GT3 – and underlined the fact that electronic aids such as a PDK gearbox might not be a purist’s choice, but they can make even a racing car go faster.

Back to the drawing board

A new car for new customers

1961 Aston Martin Jet by Bertone

Déjà-vu in red

Hand-built at the Gaydon chocolate factory

Star of the 1982 Geneva Salon

The D-type, on the other hand, was a fully fledged racer from the start, with a design brief that essentially demanded ‘functional efficiency at all costs’.

While form came second to function in terms of the brief, the result was extraordinarily beautiful – with one of the best-loved silhouettes in the whole of motoring history. That characteristic fin, however, wasn’t present on the earliest D-types, but was a later product of wind-tunnel testing, an aerodynamic approach then in its infancy.