Five registers of the same pursuit.
A history that corners through the decades. Together, these classes describe the arc from the recorded run to the road of the future.
The Record Class
The cars that, for a single season, were the fastest things alive - and knew it.
The signature class of the Concours. One automobile - perhaps two - presented with the chronograph, the witness statement, the period photograph. The full record of what they did, and where, and at what cost to the driver who held the wheel.
Grand Routières
The cars that compressed continents before the motorway was invented.
Paris to the Riviera before the autoroute. Stuttgart to Geneva in a morning. Cars built for the discipline of the open road and the time it kept - when a long journey was still a small adventure, and the bond between driver and car ran like a long straight.
Sculpture in Motion
Coachwork as argument - a shape drawn more by the wind than the pen.
Where the wind shaped the body, and the body, in turn, taught the eye. Aerodynamic study presented as form: hand-formed aluminium clothed in the language of an engineer and a coachbuilder working as one. Beauty, in this class, is a byproduct of necessity.
Postwar Icons
The decades in which the modern fast car was settled.
From the early fifties through the late seventies - the years that resolved, with finality, what a fast motorcar should be. Engines found their voice; lines found their discipline. The cars in this class are the punctuation of that long sentence.
Future Icons
The velocity landmarks of tomorrow - chosen now, while the ink is still wet.
Cars of the present moment that, viewed at distance, will be understood as having defined their own decade. Selected sparingly. Their drivers still feel the fear, even if a great deal of engineering stands between them and it.