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    STEPHEN BAYLEY

    Jun 23, 2021 3 minutes

    ‘Elongated microtonal dissonances’, I read in a recent review of a modern musical composition. There were no such subtleties on offer as I reviewed a coruscating range of supercars and hypercars. These were recently assembled by an old friend of mine who has the great good fortune to own a racing circuit. Forget about microtonal, this was the bombastic last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth turned up to 11.

    While others chattered about lightened crankshafts, I pondered different truths

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