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“SPEEDSTERS ARE THE NEW FOURWHEELED, VERY-MUCH-NOT-WATERPROOF-TO-500FT CHRONOGRAPHS”
Type “most expensive” into Google, leave the cursor blinking, and the two top suggestions it’ll offer are “car” and “wristwatch”. There’s always been an uncanny synergy between fast cars and timekeeping devices. Fundamentally, they only have one mundane purpose. And yet, the money – the intricacy – that can be lavished on either to seduce the world’s megawallets boggles the mind. Speedsters are the new four-wheeled, very-much-not-waterproof-to-500ft chronographs.
Only 12 Bentley Mulliner Bacalars will ever exist. Each has been allocated, its buyer paying £1.5m plus taxes for the privilege. Aston Martin will produce 88 V12 Speedsters. Thirty-five were snapped up just off the back of Aston releasing an abstract design sketch. Even at £765,000 a pop – and a good chunk more change for the F-18 fighter-jet-inspired spec you see here – Aston Martin was confident, on the day of the car’s official reveal on 4 March 2020, that
