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The Analogue Rebellion: Gordon Murray and Hennessey Draw a Line in the Sand

As Monterey Car Week bows to the twin gods of batteries and kilowatt bloat, Gordon Murray’s manual V12 S1 and Hennessey’s $2.5 million Blackbird stage a purist coup.

There was a time when the path to exotic supremacy was a simple, brutal exercise in arithmetic: add turbochargers, stack hybrid inverters, and announce an obscene kilowatt figure…

The undeniable bellwether of this shift is the Gordon Murray S1. Debuting under the California sun, the S1 makes no apologies for its unapologetic, retro-futurist blueprint: a…

Murray isn't the only builder betting that the wealthiest collectors are tiring of two-ton battery packs and numb steering racks.

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As Monterey Car Week bows to the twin gods of batteries and kilowatt bloat, Gordon Murray’s manual V12 S1 and Hennessey’s $2.5 million Blackbird stage a purist coup.

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