Limited roadworthiness
06/08/2025
Anyone who was present during the preparations for the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este or was able to watch the cars promenade past the audience will have noticed that the modern hypercar driver does not have it easy.
Even the smallest bumps and edges in the road demanded careful maneuvering, the installation of miniature ramps and vigilant control of the hyper sports car, which was capable of at least 300 km/h. You can imagine how well the clutches coped with this. And now, at the latest, the attentive observer understood why these hypercars turn up at auctions with just a few hundred kilometers on the clock when the owner has grown tired of them.
All the more reason to look forward to the next drive in a Lotus Elan or Renault 4 CV, because not only do these cars cope with bumps and bumps without any problems, they are also so narrow and well laid out that even narrow roads are a pleasure. In stark contrast to driving through the village of Cernobbio in a Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR ...
