David Brown Automotive’s Speedback GT is a
retro-styled two-door coupe that was launched more than two years ago, yet it
is at the brand’s Geneva Motor Show stand and will remain there until March 17. The car looks unchanged since we
last saw it, but since there are no two identical Speedback GTs, this one wears
white on the outside and probably has a few special touches in the cockpit. As
for the one sitting next to it, it’s dressed in a dark red shade and adds
different wheels, with a more modern vibe.
Regardless of how one chooses to spec their
Speedback GT, all of them share the same engine. The 5-liter twin-scroll
supercharged V8 is capable of delivering 510 PS and 625 Nm of torque, thus rocketing the car to 100 km/h in 4.7
seconds and up to a top speed that has been electronically capped to 250 km/h.
When first launched, the Speedback GT came at an
eye-watering £ 495,000 before taxes in the UK, which makes
it a very expensive proposition. David Brown Automotive’s actual premiere for the Swiss auto show is
the Mini Remastered. It comes to life by using a donor vehicle and uses bespoke
body panels. As for the time required to complete one, that would be about
1,400 hours.
Just because it’s tiny doesn’t mean that it’s cheap.
The ’s Mini Remastered can be had from roughly £ 75,000 in
Britain, but depending on what clients want, it can hit the £ 100,000 mark.
