THE NEW NORMAL
Progress in powertrain technology is a lot like London buses. Not painfully slow, often late and with a strong eau-du-vom, but tends to arrive in twos and threes. Of course, certain leaps in tech and off-the-shelf components will always unlock new applications at a point in time, but the fact that the first three hybrid hypercars – McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder and LaFerrari – all went into production within a few months of each other in 2013 still baffles me.
As does BMW and Mercedes coming up with the idea for a switchable 4WD/RWD system for the latest M5 and
