THE all-new Ferrari 849 Testarossa. What’s not to like about that? Just the name sends a shiver of excitement down one’s spine – the 849 part stands for the number of cylinders (eight) followed by the

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Last week a couple of separate but related events unfolded in the world of Monopoly-money cars. Bugatti revealed an impressive Chiron-based Veyron 2.0, while across the Atlantic, in Florida, somebody

MY NAME IS Mark and I have a confession. I’ve never driven a Miura. Or, at least, until a couple of weeks ago I hadn’t. While that may seem like a ridiculously pretentious statement, as a time-served

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