Motor Sport Magazine

ANDREW FRANKEL

As I was driving the Rolls-Royce Spectre, reviewed elsewhere in this issue, I found myself struck by a bad case of the what-might-have-beens, and it had little to do with the Roller.

Instead I was thinking of another car I first saw six years ago which, had it (or something similar) made it into production, would have cast the Spectre in a different light. It was the Vision Concept and though it was the work of Aston Martin, it would be another set of wings that were flown from its bonnet – Lagonda.

The plan was simple and elegant:

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