The apparent battle between supercar manufacturers to make the maddest, baddest, most impractical speedster imaginable already feels as though it happened in a different century.
But it was only in 2018 that Ferrari kicked-off the trend for such cars with the Monza SP1 ahead of the SP2 the following year, both street-legal roadsters inspired by historic racers such as the 750 Monza, 250 Testa Rossa and 166MM.
McLaren, which rather wonderfully partnered with Mercedes-Benz to produce 75 fully open Stirling Moss SLRs in 2009, followed with its Elva of 2019, leaving Aston Martin to enter the fray in 2021 with its own offering, the V12 Speedster.
Aston already had form with this style of car, having produced the CC100 Speedster to mark its centenary in 2013, but just two of those…