Place one of the most exclusive cars in recent years in a magical night, right in the heart of Milan. Yes, Piazza Duomo.
These photos best capture that enchanting evening spent with the one-of-a-kind Alfa Romeo Giulia SWB Zagato.
In collaboration with @readymotorsports
Heartfelt thanks to @zagato1919
Photos by @steveketner for @nostalgear_ & @readymotorsports
With the invaluable participation of Fabrizio Pistochini
#AlfaRomeoGiuliaSWBZagato #Zagato #Nostalgear #ArtOfAutomobile #AutomotiveMasterpiece #Milan
Vita Lenta.
What is real luxury?
For some, it’s the car.
The poster.
The dream made real, parked right outside the house.
For others, it’s something much harder to build.
A quiet life.
A home in the countryside.
Time that moves slowly.
And someone still beside you after all these years.
And somehow, in this small corner of Puglia, both are sitting in the same frame.
The Lamborghini is the dream.
The life is the prize.
So tell us: what does luxury mean to you?
It’s hard to talk about the Maserati Alfieri without clenching your fists.
Why? Just look at it: it’s pure beauty.
Winner of 2014 Concept Car of the Year at Car Design Night in Geneva, it captured countless hearts and hopes.
So many, that Maserati promised production more than once, but eleven years on it’s clear: that promise was too good to be true.
Still, with the challenges the brand faces today, the Alfieri could be the ultimate comeback - a true revenge car, ideally powered by nothing less than a V6.
Toyota GR Yaris.
In a world of oversized screens, fake noise and performance filtered through software, Toyota built a small hatchback with a very different idea.
Three doors.
Insanely wide fenders.
A 1.6 litre turbocharged three cylinder.
261 hp.
All wheel drive.
Basically a rally car for the road.
Does any of that sound kind of familiar?
We feel like it’s the 2020 answer to the 80s homologation specials that became the legends they are today.
And let’s just say that the Rally1 car is on track (pun intended) to build one hell of a legacy, so owning the street legal version sounds pretty cool to us.
What do you think? Does it deserve all the hype?
Owner: @marietticarsgarage
Lancia ECV2: the rally weapon from a future that never arrived.
Born after Group B, developed for the stillborn Group S era, the ECV2 was Lancia pushing beyond the Delta S4, lighter, sharper, more extreme.
Carbon and Kevlar.
A 1.8-litre Triflux twin-turbo engine, built to deliver around 600 hp.
Aerodynamics shaped with one purpose, to turn violence into control.
Unfortunately, it never raced and never had the chance to become a legend on stage.
But we like to think that the engineering behind such a beast helped Lancia shape what would become one of, if not the, greatest rally cars of all time, the Lancia Delta HF Integrale.
3, 2, 1.
321 cavalli.
BMW M3 E36, Blu Estoril.
Niente schermi giganti.
Niente luci ambientali da discoteca (lei ti ci portava per davvero a ballare).
Niente accessori inutili.
Solo un sei cilindri in linea aspirato, trazione posteriore, cambio manuale e tutto quello che serve davvero.
Niente di più.
Niente che manchi.
Ed è proprio questo il punto.
Ci sono auto che cercano di intrattenerti prima ancora di partire.
Questa invece aspetta la strada.
Il grande pregio della M3 E36 non è solo andare forte.
È farti sembrare sbagliata l’idea di tornare a casa.
Ancora una strada.
Ancora una curva.
Ancora una scusa per non parcheggiarla.
Owner: @marietticarsgarage
Few-Off Lamborghinis have always been extremely interesting.
Some may call them messages from Sant’Agata to the future.
Just think about the Reventón and how it defined an era of few-off cars, exquisitely designed for the most demanding clients.
Fenomeno Roadster is no less than that:
15 units.
1080 CV.
A 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12, assisted by three electric motors.
0 to 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds.
Over 340 km/h.
All of that makes it the most powerful open-top Lamborghini ever made.
The real question is exclusivity.
Part of the magic is knowing almost nobody will ever see one.
Part of the frustration is exactly the same thing.
Because a car like this deserves noise, posters, fuel station sightings, cameras and kids pointing from the back seat.
Not just climate-controlled collections.
So, yay or nay?
Do you like the Fenomeno Roadster as an ultra-rare Few-Off, or would you rather live in a world where we could actually see more of them on the road?
Let us know in the comments!
📸: Lamborghini
Proof that advertising used to be smart (and fun).
Before performance cars needed launch control videos, influencer reviews and dramatic configurator names, Volkswagen sold the Corrado with a different kind of confidence.
A Beetle falling from the sky.
A headline comparing it to a Porsche.
A copywriter clearly having the time of his life.
And somehow, it worked.
Because the Corrado was not just a Golf in a sharper suit.
It was lower, wider, built by Karmann and shaped with intent.
It had an active rear spoiler (before that became a supercar cliché).
In G60 form, it came with a supercharged four cylinder.
In VR6 form, it got one of the most charismatic engines Volkswagen ever made.
Compact.
Strange.
Clever.
Far more special than it probably needed to be.
The kind of car that could only come from a company serious enough to engineer it properly, and playful enough to advertise it like this.
Old Volkswagen knew exactly what it was doing.
And the Corrado might be one of its finest proofs.
GMC Syclone.
At first glance, a small black pickup.
Which (to some people) sounds about as exciting as a dishwasher with wheels.
And then you realise it had a turbocharged 4.3 litre V6, all wheel drive, 280 hp and got to 60mph in just 4,3 seconds.
This was back in 1991.
And while most trucks were busy carrying timber, tools and about anything you could come up with, the Syclone was out there embarrassing sports cars at traffic lights.
And that’s why we’re glad they made it.
It makes you smile, then it leaves you speechless.
Nowadays anyone can get a F150 Raptor or a RAM TRX, but back then there were just shy of 3000.
We can only say one thing: what a machine!
#gmc #gmcsyclone
A qualcuno piace dire che la Giulia Quadrifoglio sia una Ferrari con quattro porte.
È una cazzata.
Sì, da qualche parte si nasconde un po’ di idea Ferrari, ma non è quello che rende speciale questa macchina.
Perché questa non è una Ferrari con due porte in più.
È un’Alfa Romeo che si è svegliata col piede sbagliato e ha scelto la violenza.
V6 biturbo da 2.9 litri.
520 cavalli.
600 Nm.
0-100 km/h in 3,9 secondi.
Eppure, i numeri passano praticamente in secondo piano.
La vera magia sta nell’attitudine.
Non vuole soltanto essere veloce.
Vuole fare scena.
Vuole attaccare briga.
Vuole farti girare a guardarla dopo che l’hai parcheggiata e pensare: “sì, è stata una pessima idea”... per poi rifarlo comunque.
Una Ferrari potrebbe intimorire.
La Giulia Quadrifoglio fa una cosa migliore: provoca.
Quindi no, questa non è una Ferrari con quattro porte.
È un’Alfa Romeo fatta come si deve.
E questa appartiene a @21_makeitcount con cui lavoriamo sempre molto volentieri, perché, come probabilmente avrete capito, quando si parla di motori hanno davvero buon gusto.
People love calling the Giulia Quadrifoglio a Ferrari with four doors.
That is wrong.
Yes, there’s some Ferrari-adjacent engine DNA somewhere in the background.
But that is not what makes this car special.
Because this does not feel like a Ferrari with extra doors.
It feels like an Alfa Romeo that woke up in a bad mood and chose violence.
A 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6.
510 hp.
600 Nm.
0–100 km/h in 3.9 seconds.
And yet the numbers are almost beside the point.
The real magic is in the attitude.
It doesn’t just want to be fast.
It wants to make a scene.
It wants to pick a fight.
It wants you to look back at it after you’ve parked it and think, “yes, that was a terrible idea”… and then do it again anyway.
A Ferrari usually intimidates you.
The Giulia Quadrifoglio does something much better:
it provokes you.
So no, this is not a Ferrari with four doors.
It’s an Alfa Romeo done properly.
And this one belongs to @21_makeitcount with whom we always work with real pleasure, because, as you can probably tell, they have very good taste when it comes to engines.
