The 1930s pickup that’s a 1,000bhp hot rod

The Mustang GTD is an all in kind of a car. Nothing by halves. It doesn’t merely rumble, it bellows like Pavarotti with his pipes fully open. Its Popeye bodywork doesn’t just attract your attention, i

REGULAR CARRERA S, SILVER, CIRCA 2005. Non-standard wheels and the exhaust tailpipes are fatter than factory items, but otherwise just like any well-used 911 of 20 years of age. Tidy inside, with a ma

am being overtaken by my own wing. As I tilt up onto Boxberg test ground’s banking and the sun curves behind me, the lengthening shadows project the great roll hoop of a spoiler onto the road ahead. S

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?

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

For years, some of the more committed car makers had been quietly logging Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times for internal benchmarking and the odd press release. But then in 2008, Porsche suggested Ni