2023 Ferrari SF90 Spider 'Atelier'
Roll a Ferrari SF90 Spider out of the garage in its default electric mode and the first thing that hits you is the silence. No bark from the exhaust, no shudder through the seat at idle, just tyre noise and a f...
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Technological Turning Points
Cars that made an emerging technology, layout or performance idea tangible at the moment it began reshaping the wider industry.
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A technological turning point is not always the first appearance of an invention. More often, it is the moment a new idea becomes convincing enough to alter what follows. The mid-engined Lamborghini Miura, the performance-minded Alfa Romeo Giulietta T.I. and Ferrari’s plug-in-hybrid SF90 occupy very different parts of automotive history, but each made a changing set of possibilities visible to a wider audience. Their importance lies beyond novelty. They demonstrated new relationships between layout, performance and everyday use, helping move an emerging concept from experiment or specialist practice toward an expectation the rest of the industry would have to answer.
1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S by Bertone
When Lamborghini wheeled a revised Miura onto its stand at the Turin Motor Show in the autumn of 1968, there was no repeat of the sensation the original had caused two and a half years earlier in Geneva. That w...
1977 Lamborghini Countach LP400 'Periscopio' by Bertone
Every LP400-generation Countach carries a small fossil of an idea Lamborghini never quite got to work: a shallow channel pressed into the roof panel, running back from above the driver's head to a little window...
1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta T.I. Berlina
When Alfa Romeo wanted to show the press what its new performance saloon could do in the autumn of 1957, it didn't book a hotel conference room or a quiet stretch of Milanese autostrada. It took journalists to...
1938 Fiat 1500 Berlina
Fiat's 1500 arrived at the Milan motor show in November 1935 wearing a body unlike anything else built in Turin, and - unusually for the period - the mechanical package underneath had been rethought to match it...
1953 Alfa Romeo 1900 C Cabriolet by Pinin Farina
Battista "Pinin" Farina carried more prestige than almost anyone else in Italian coachbuilding by 1951, yet when Alfa Romeo handed out contracts for its new short-wheelbase 1900C chassis, the glamour assignment...