PRINCESS R35
A text message to the editor after a test is not rare, just a quick line to reassure him everything has gone to plan and I haven’t accidentally run the boat in question up the nearest sandbank. The summary sent to him after the test of this boat, though, was the most succinct yet: “The R35. Holy sh*t!”
Though we have tracked this boat’s gestation from spy shots to a drive of the pre-production mule, nothing – and I mean nothing – could have prepared me for what it would be like to experience the real thing. The prototype stole my breath with its rawness, agility and aggression, but the end product did so because of the way it masks this awesome capability beneath Pininfarina’s sumptuous lines and Princess’s cool refinement.
What’s most remarkable about sitting in
