BBC Top Gear Magazine

TROJAN HORSE

“THERE’S AN ARGUMENT THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE BARGAIN OF THE CENTURY”

Cars fit places. Bombing around a Greek island in a Mini Moke, for example… automotive heroin. Driving one anywhere cold or wet? Purgatory. A McLaren Senna on track is a symphony of downforce and barely controlled aggression. In a multistorey car park it’s butt puckeringly unpleasant.

I mention this because car-plus-place doesn’t click any better than this – a wildly expensive Ferrari 250 SWB homage and a morning to ourselves on the Monterey Peninsula – the surreal beautiful golfing mecca that attracts the rich like flies to a BBQ. Around here they don’t see prices

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