Classics Cars

Lamborghini put some 25,000 man-hours into recreating the legendary LP 500 prototype that was destroyed in a crash test soon after its debut in 1971. The project wasn’t initiated by Lamborghini, as you might expect, but by an extremely affable but no less persistent Swiss customer. We caught up with Albert Spiess for an exclusive interview at Lamborghini’s design center.

Honest work. Driving a car in its purest form, with clutch and gearshift, without power steering and electronic driving aids, but with a lot of fire. A simple recipe - and incredibly effective. No question, Kurt Molzer loves the De Tomaso Pantera. And survives the wild affair - at least until it comes to writing down what happened.

The first time Marc Lichte laid eyes on the legendary Audi Sport quattro as a teenager, he was hooked. But the car we’re washing together today is the Audi e-tron GT that he designed himself. A main topic of our conversation is the Audi of the future. And how difficult it is to get the windows as clean as you’d like.