Harry metcalfe

1. For the McLaren F1 owner’s manual, Gordon Murray told me to deliver something that was significantly better than our competitors’. Nobody reads owners’ manuals and I wanted to change that to reflec

REGARDING your cover story in Octane 265 about the Ferrari F50, in the 1990s I worked for a Ferrari garage (Specialised Cars of Knutsford) that race-prepared an F50 for the Maranello Ferrari Challenge

I HAVE BEEN fortunate enough to meet Gordon Murray on several occasions, though I am not sure his joy at discovering we would be sitting together at various functions over the years was ever quite as

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

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No matter what the onslaught of incredible stats, it’s the gearknob I remember most. Sure, when the McLaren F1 was launched in 1994 it cost £540,000 (plus taxes) and there was talk of a 6.0-litre V12