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One thing that was totally predictable, though, was its colossal power and torque, making it the fastest production Bentley ever built.

The Italia was born from an agreement between Triumph and its Italian importer to offer a car which married sumptuous Italian bodywork with the dependability of British mechanicals. Its TR3 underpinnings also meant spare parts were plentiful and easy to source. Once Giovanni Michelotti had penned the Maserati 3500-esque coachwork, the chassis and drivetrains were shipped to Italy and then bodied by Vignale in Turin.

The car will be driven by one of its joint owners paired with the always-rapid Henry Mann - son of legendary team manager, the late Alan Mann - in an hour-long race, part of the Masters weekend.

What you see here is a brand new Vanquish. It looks a little like that first one from 2001, but only because all recent Aston Martins look more similar to each other than their designers perhaps like to think. This new one replaces the DBS, which was itself a DB9 on steroids and sort of replaced the first Vanquish, and possibly also replaces the excellent Virage (not the 1990s version), which was itself really a DB9 made slightly better in every way.

It was meant to be his last appearance as James Bond – but it most certainly was his first in an American car chase: “Get in the car,” Sean Connery tells his co-star Jill St. John, “and if you see a mad professor in a minibus, just smile.” With a roaring big block up front and a somewhat lively tail, the red Mustang storms through the Nevada Desert and eventually reaches the neon boulevards of night-time Las Vegas.

From the company’s Madrid showrooms, it’s also possible to purchase all the right accessories, as this video reveals.
 

Zuffenhausen’s music of the future: Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo

Its name sets the scene nicely for the task in hand. ‘P1’ not only casts a nod in the direction of the legendary McLaren F1, but also refers to the prize position in motor racing: at the head of the field, leading the pack in first place. Of course, with several rivals on the horizon – namely Ferrari’s Enzo successor, Porsche’s 918 Spyder and the production version of Jaguar’s C-X75 – this is the spot McLaren would very much like to acquire in the hierarchy of the hypercar grid, too.

It was a very appropriate gesture for the Paris Motor Show, since it was the 1925 Paris Exhibition or Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes that gave Art Deco its name. And here in 2012 we see a wealth of Art Deco-inspired interior detailing on the Phantom Saloon’s black and arctic white interior, a Phantom Drophead Coupé ‘furnished in resplendent mother of pearl onlays’ and a Ghost – its elegant simplicity enhanced by the two-tone, jubilee silver and cobalt blue, with a magnificent interior featuring intricate marquetry front and rear.