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CAR 100<br />
GREATEST HITS OF <strong>2014</strong><br />
LAMBORGHINI ASTERION<br />
2 Its full name – Asterion LPI 910-<br />
4 – is the whole story: LP denotes<br />
longitudinale posteriore engine position, I means<br />
Ibrido or hybrid, 910 is the combined PS output<br />
and 4 means four-wheel drive. It’s Lambo’s<br />
fi rst front-wheel driver (shock) but despite<br />
beardy intent still packs a V10 (unshock). More<br />
importantly, we want to marry it.<br />
3<br />
MASERATI<br />
ALFIERI<br />
Suspiciously beautiful<br />
and desirable centenary<br />
gift from Maserati to itself<br />
surely destined for<br />
mothballs. But no!<br />
It’s a goer!<br />
1<br />
NISSAN<br />
BLADEGLIDER<br />
Weird, pointy electric<br />
three-seater most notable<br />
for pissing off Panoz,<br />
whose Nismo-powered<br />
DeltaWing racer it<br />
resembles.<br />
7<br />
Mind-blowing<br />
concepts<br />
4<br />
TOYOTA FT-1<br />
Or Future Toyota One. ‘Don’t<br />
call it the new Supra,’ they said,<br />
so we called it the new Supra.<br />
Rustled up by Toyota’s LA-based<br />
substance-smokers as a Trojan<br />
horse PlayStation fantasy, FT-1 was<br />
fi rst shown to boss Akio Toyoda on<br />
his console, and he immediately<br />
thrashed it round Fuji Speedway.<br />
His smile suggested he – and we –<br />
might be able to do that for real one<br />
day. Sigh. Now, back to that Auris…<br />
98 CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK I DECEMBER <strong>2014</strong>
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