But not for long. Encouraged by parent company Renault, Alpine is about to add the A290 electric hot hatch, and a ‘crossover GT’ in 2025, on its way to a line-up of seven EVs by the end of the decade. And while it’s delivering this ambitious plan for road cars, it will be expanding its motorsport commitment beyond F1 and LMP2 to include the top class of the World Endurance Championship.
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Car designers are an innovative bunch – you’ll struggle to visit a studio at any car maker around the world and not find it stuffed with non-automotive objects. Here we gather some of the craziest brand extensions, from the devilishly cool to the downright cringeworthy. Judge the results for yourselves – and be sure to leave your comments below!
Look away now if you have a penchant for turn-of-the-millennium hypercars: a pair of unused, delivery-mileage Italian superstars have come up for sale.
Romans International is advertising a Ferrari Enzo and Maserati MC12 at its Surrey dealership. The pair were genetically linked at birth and are offered in essentially brand new spec.
The all-electric Rimac Nevera has set a world speed record with a difference: it was with the electric motors locked in reverse.
Driving backwards at the Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany, the Nevera Time Attack Edition hit a top speed of 171.34mph.
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Series 1 Racer – the only one of its kind to race as a factory-campaigned car – has sold at auction for a staggering $51.7 million. Though it didn’t quite hit its pre-auction estimate of $60 million, this figure is enough to make it the second most-expensive car ever sold at auction, easily outstripping works by Picasso, Dali and Monet that were in the same sale.
1993 gave us a few excellent things. The word ‘macaron’, Nokia’s first phone with a colour display, Beanie Babies. The highlights are, of course, this writer (born in December 1993) and the Kia Sportage.