Fleet review
More than 20 cruisers, flagships and luggers were in commission this year, but which served most capably? Their captains report to admiral FELIX PAGE
THE
TRY NOT TO SULK
AWARD
For the car we regrettably missed
Winner
MASERATI MC20
Maserati threw a party and we were all invited – but only a few of us managed to get in the door. The MC20 was never in our car park for more than 10 minutes before someone came up with a ‘legitimate reason’ for needing it that evening.
“I’ve got urgent business on the other side of the Brecon Beacons,” they would say, or “I left my wallet at the end of the Stelvio Pass.”
Nonetheless, some unlucky hangers-on were left out in the cold.
Rachel Burgess would have put the Italian supercar through its paces but for the lack of Isofix mounts: “The legal implications of my three-year-old sitting in his child seat attached with a seatbelt meant it was a no-go.”
Jack Warrick had no such moral qualms, but the keys just always seemed to elude him: “Having a twin-turbo-V6-powered supercar in our fleet is a rare occurrence, a fact reflected in how it was always occupied when I wanted a go!”
Matt Prior proved himself the world’s unluckiest man in missing not only the MC20 but also its closest rival, the McLaren Artura, which he reckons he still hasn’t driven at all, “although I couldn’t say for sure, worryingly”.
Hopefully being the only one of us to have driven the Ferrari 12Cilindri is some consolation.
While we all bickered like schoolkids for a go in a thoroughbred supercar, though, James Attwood was frustrated at not being able to do some actual work and find out whether the updated Polestar 2 was truly improved over its predecessor.