Now this is what we call a supercar gathering
Go on, try and find a better selection of cars in a prettier part of the world
A quick word of warning, the images in this gallery are not early screenshots from the next Forza game. Oh no. This is what you call ballin’ in the big leagues, son.
What you’re looking at is a selection of photographs from this year’s Supercar Owners Circle summer meet up. And don’t think this is your average car meet up in some car park off the A1 – it’s a bit ritzier than that. See, each year the Supercar Owners Circle take over one of the world’s finest hotels – The Chedi, Andermatt – in order to spend a weekend blasting over closed alps, on runways, all before retiring to the Spa to wash down a gob full of expensive bubbles and discuss what small island in the Carribean to buy. We know this because even with our proletariat status, last year we got behind the red rope and did it ourselves.
This year was the event’s fifth anniversary, and even though the list of cars is always strong, the team sheet in 2019 was something from a fantasy league. We’re talking more than 80 supercars from past and present, all furiously expensive and wonderfully rare but ragged around the postcard-worthy vistas of Switzerland like they’re one-cylinder hire cars.
So grab a bib for your dribble, click through and tell us what’s your favourite below.
Photography: Keno Zache & Alex Penfold
Advertisement - Page continues belowPagani Huayra 'Imola'
We may be clinging onto the last days of summer, but if this Pagani is anything to go by, it looks like someone is excited for Halloween. This is not the Pagani Pumpkin Spice Latte edition, rather the new one-off Huayra 'Imola'.
Pagani Huayra 'Imola'
Horacio Pagani was in attendance for the first public showing of this one-off Huayra. And as you can see, with new aero-centric bodywork, a roof snorkel and bigger wheels, it's quite the steroidal supercar. It's also quite orange.
Advertisement - Page continues belowFerrari F40 LM
This isn't a Ferrari F40. This isn't even an M&S Ferrari F40. This is a Ferrari F40 LM, the hardcore racing version of the hardcore road-going Ferrari F40, built by Michelotto. Michelotto did unseemly, unspoken things to the last supercar Enzo Ferrari would oversee. Wonderful things, mind. A reinforced chassis. Wildly aggressive bodywork. More aggressive front and rear wings. Bigger brakes, upgraded suspension, a racing gearbox and literally no interior. Now think about that on cobbles. Brave.
Koenigsegg One:1
The Koenigsegg One:1 ‘megacar’ is capable of accelerating from standstill to 300kmh, and back down to zero again, in just 17.95 seconds. It can also make Switzerland look like Dante's Inferno. It must have something to do with the 1,340bhp on tap.
Jaguar D-Type
This is the new Jaguar D-Type. No, really. This Longnose-spec racer is from a box-fresh run of 25 more D-Types. Why? Well, because it’s excellent business for Jaguar. And because it’s a completion of a story started more than sixty years ago.
Porsche 911 GT1
Homologation specials are certainly the maddest cars on the road. But the Porsche 911 GT1 Straßenversion is up there with the maddest. Now... this or a Taycan?
Advertisement - Page continues belowMercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster
Thought 'lifestyle accessories' were a new thing? Pah! Everyone knows that there was a tick box on the spec sheet to add a picnic basket and monoski to a 300SL Roadster.
Koenigsegg Regera
The Koenigsegg Regera, the Swedish firm’s 1479bhp, 1465lb ft, 250mph hybrid hypercar. And no, those figures are not a mistake. At the heart of the Regera sits broadly the same 5.0-litre twin turbo V8 as you’ll find in the back of an Agera RS, but to give it a little extra something, there’s also the small matter of three electric motors as well.
Advertisement - Page continues belowPagani Huayra 'Imola'
It's back! The Pagani for 'Spooky Season'.
Ferrari 250 GT SWB
Ladies and gents, it's time to grab that drool guttering. What a car. What a colour.
Mercedes-Benz G500 4x4²
The world's most capable off-roader. And a G500 4x4².
Bugatti Grand Sport L’Or Blanc
This is a Bugatti Veyron with porcelain bits on it. Yep, we’ve had chrome-effect R8s, snakeskin-shod Escalades, wide-mouth Cayennes, but then there’s this - the crockery-spec Grand Sport L’Or Blanc (White Gold to you and me).
Zenvo TSR-S
Recognise this? It's the 1,177bhp car from Denmark with the mad, waggly wing. This is what happened when we drove it.
Ferrari LaFerrari
The LaFerrari was the apogee of the iconic Italian firm's road car programme: a carbon, two-seat hypercar that melds a 6.3-litre Ferrari V12 with a KERS-esque battery pack and electric motor to give 950bhp and 663lb ft of torque. If you turn all the systems off, it also works as a fantastic smoke machine.
Huayra, 288 GTO and LaFerrari
Now this is a very expensive game of piggy in the middle.
Ferrari lineage
"Crowd around everybody, it's time for a family portrait."
Koenigsegg CCXR
Pretty much every variation of Koenigsegg rocked up. Including this bare carbon CCXR. Yum, bare carbon.
MAT New Stratos
Last year, Italian coachbuilding firm Manifattura Automobili Torino announced it would build a 25-strong limited series of the Lancia Stratos-inspired supercar. What’s more, there’ll be three different versions. A road going supercar, a GT racing car and – be still our beating hearts – this Safari rally-spec version.
Ferrari 599 GTZ Nibbio Zagato
If back in the day you thought Ferrari 599s were ten a penny, luckily you could trust the coachbuilders to come along and make them rarer. Take the 599 GTZ Nibbio Zagato, for example. It's based on the 599 GTB but the body was reworked and restyled by the Italian design house, Zagato. The original car was built in 2007 but Zagato only reworked the body ten years later. A proper new-old Fezza, then. Rare too. Only nine were made, with one being a manual.
Ferrari F50
Ah, The Ferrari F50. As we said in our special TG Collector’s Edition Ferrari mag, “the F50’s years flying under the radar are now emphatically over.” It really was something of a forgotten gem for about 20 years. And we really can’t figure out why.
Pagani party
The weather will never judge you. It doesn’t care who you are, how much money you have, or what you have in the garage; if it wants to rain – as Ollie Williams would say – “it’s gon’ rain”.
Dallara Stradale
Nothing to see here, just another self-confessed chassis enthusiast out for a drive.
Aston Martin One-77
Up close, the One-77 is blatantly exotic, but strangely familiar. A £1.2million, V12 hypercar with a crummy gearbox. Still looks ace, though.
Ferrari F40 and F50
Here's a tongue twister; Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari...
Koenigsegg Agera
Lots of horsepower. A deluge. Cobbles. We think we'll stay indoors, thanks.
Pagani Huayra 'Imola'
Back where we started. A Pagani coming back from its pumpkin run.
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