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As he’s a designer with six decades of experience, mostly at the pinnacle of road and race cars, you might expect Gordon Murray’s car collection to include big-ticket Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Marti

Murray originally aspired to becoming a racing driver, and campaigned his self-built IGM (Ian Gordon Murray) in the National Sports Car Championship in 1967-68. The original car no longer exists, but

Price new: £265,937 Price now: £800,000 Engine: 6.5-litre V12 Transmission: Six-speed manual, four-wheel drive Power/torque: 661bhp/660Nm 0-62mph: 3.2 seconds Top speed: 212mph (209mph with aero kit)

Much like a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving in New York brimming with talent and potential, Gordon Murray landed in England as a 23-year-old with little more than uncanny ability and burning ambition.

Max Missoni, the award-winning Polestar design boss who joined BMW late last year, has spent much of the past seven months in his new role learning about the Bavarian company’s unique procedures and “

A few minutes ago you had flung yourself into its spell. You were about to realise adolescent fantasies aboard a Monteverdi 375L, but that was then. A sense of anxiety has since descended, one perhaps