HISTORY SHOULD TEACH US HUMILITY AND PROVIDE some context, even when new ground is being broken. Even the most bleeding-edge discoveries and products will one day become the norm and they’ll inevitably be overtaken and relegated to being a monument of a previous era. Glorious, yes, but outgunned and out-manoeuvred. It regularly happens in our little world of the performance car. Sometimes it’s a very slow process – the McLaren F1 being the best example – but it will happen.
Even so, you can forgive our excitement in 2013 when Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren all readied their new ultimate models. Augmented as never before with electric motors and weaponised with things such as torque-fill, powerful torque vectoring, complex driving modes and chassis settings, highly evolved aerodynamics and, well, knocking on the door of 1000bhp, the LaFerrari, 918 Spyder and P1 seemed so new
