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Under the title ‘Les Légendes de Bugatti’ the marque launched a super-exclusive, limited-edition series last year, honouring eminent personalities in its history – keeping the model alive and fresh for a while longer. The fourth in the series is named after sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of company founder Ettore, among whose best-known works is the sculpture of a dancing elephant that graced the radiator of the Bugatti Type 41 Royale.

 That, claims the Swedish manufacturer, is enough to push the 1,360kg monster to a v-max of 280mph, some 10mph more than the record 270mph that the Hennessey Venom GT achieved last week at the Kennedy Space Centre.

The otherworldly Disco Volante made its debut in conceptual form back at the Geneva Motor Show in 2012. Now, after being revealed in production-spec guise at last year’s fair, the Italian coachbuilder will display a customer-order car on its 2014 stand.

With more than 75,000 built over a 17-year production window, it's vital to choose the right model of 356 if you're to reap the full rewards of this agile little sports car - and make a sound investment, rather than being financially stung. Our experts explain:

Legendary classics and modern supercars are hidden behind an utterly inconspicuous backdrop...

The relationship is already well into its half-century, and has been bountiful in terms of the stop-and-gawp nature of its offspring, if not the quantity. Its first, the achingly beautiful Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, is today considered one of the most desirable classics ever made. In the mid-80s, the Aston Martin V8 Zagato once again put focus on the partnership (this time with a more varied reception), and the early 2000s saw the romance rekindled with the arrival of the DB7 Zagato and its drophead princess, the AR1.

The BMW 507 would distance the marque from its pre-War design hangover

Using official parts is a vital factor that guarantees not only reliability, but also that all-important originality

Until now, the crowning variant of the XF Sportbrake range has been a 3.0-litre diesel – but rather than build on that by steadily releasing S and R versions, Jaguar will instead use the Geneva Motor Show to reveal the monstrous R-S version of its only estate car.