Curated collection
Unlikely partnerships between manufacturers, designers, engineers and private teams that produced cars no participant would have created alone under one roof.
Collection note
The motor industry’s most interesting partnerships often begin with incompatible instincts. Mercedes-Benz and McLaren approached the SLR with different ideas of what a flagship should be; Nissan and Italdesign transformed an anniversary exercise into the limited GT-R50; and private engineers pushed the Sunbeam Tiger far beyond its factory identity. This collection gathers cars created in the productive friction between companies, disciplines or cultures. Some collaborations resolved their contradictions beautifully, while others preserved them in the finished machine. In every case, the result carries decisions, capabilities and tensions that no single participant would have produced independently.
Few racing specials owe their existence quite so literally to cannibalism as the Sunbeam Tiger known across British club-racing paddocks as the Monster. Built for the 1966 season by the Kent-based Alan Fraser R...
Most supercar options lists sell comfort, colour, or badges nobody strictly needs. Saleen's order form for the S7 offered something closer to a genuine engineering escalation: a single checkbox that took the co...
By the time Mercedes-Benz and McLaren finally built the SLR McLaren Roadster 722 S, the whole SLR project had been arguing with itself for the better part of a decade. It began as two quite different ideas for...
Nissan spent five decades selling the GT-R on democratised speed - the idea that outrunning a Ferrari or a Porsche shouldn't require a six-figure budget, an Italian address, or a badge with a coat of arms on it...