Rolls boss ready to ‘def ine the next chapter’

WHAT IS BEING billed as the most decadent motor car ever created is expected to be one of the star cars as Concours of Elegance returns to Hampton Court on 5-7 September. The one-off 1926 Rolls-Royce

Despite a pre-dawn flight to the UK, Laurens van den Acker, the hugely accomplished Renault Group design director, bounds out of the Rafale with enthusiasm. “This is like Christmas for me,” he beams.

You become detached from reality quite quickly at an event such as the Supercar Driver Secret Meet, which took place at Silverstone on 17 June. Lamborghini Murciélago? Yawn. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren?

If people ask what I do,” says Cotswolds-based retired inventor Richard Gray, “I’m tempted to say ‘the management of decay’ because the house is falling down, the cars are always going wrong and my bo

Parcmotor Castellolí is a motorcycle circuit carved into a Spanish mountain. Not a place where you would expect a new three-tonne Rolls-Royce to be thrust upon the press, but that scenario is exactly

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