NAKED SUPERCARS

01 Lamborghini Aventador

Lamborghiniwas so proud of its Aventador rolling chassis, it chose to revealimages of the car’s carbon tub, pushrod suspension and 694bhp V12 allbolted together without bodywork on top first. Which is a bit like sending a naked selfie ahead of the first date.

02

Icon Engineering Porsche 917

This Porsche 917 replica faithfully recreates the iconic shape of Porsche’s Le Mans icon, as wellas the sense of terror when you see this 230mph turbocharged monster is held together by an intricate spaceframe that looks about as crash-proof as a spider’s web.

03 Lexus LFA

Peeling off an LFA’s bodywork gives you a sense of how tightly packaged this carbon tubbed V10 superstar was. Lexus even routed the window-washer bottle to the bowels of the car, next to the fueltank, so it didn’t compromise the balance.

04 Apollo IE

Here we have the carbon chassis, suspension and artfulexhaust of an Apollo Intensa Emozione. The passenger cellis the work of the most successfulteam in German touring cars, AMG-derived HWA AG. The exhaust is by a reanimated Leonardo da Vinci. Possibly.

05 Porsche Carrera GT

We were going to use a photo of the back of the car, showing how the carbon subframe cradles the Le Mans-derived 5.7-litre, 602bhp V10 like some sort of pregnant alien robot, but our lawyers said this picture is already too risqué.

06 Lamborghini Miura

There’s more to this rolling chassis than showing off. Lambo developed the Miura secretly, but needed financialinterest to keep it going. So, the transverse V12-engined chassis, minus bodywork, was exhibited at the 1965 Turin show, where buyers ordered before they knew how the finalcar looked.

07 Pagani Zonda R

Because the R was built with track mayhem in mind, it was fitted with quick-release clamshellbody panels front and rear, which could be removed in the pits to access the suspension for adjustment, and the earmelting 6.0-litre AMG V12, for ogling.

08 Porsche 918 Spyder

You’d imagine building a plug-in hybrid petrolelectric 4x4 hypercar with a 9,000rpm V8 and three electric motors would be done in a secret bunker. Not for Porsche. Instead, the company published info about this mutant test bed for the car, which looked like a Mad Max universe 911 Turbo.

09 McLa ren MP4-12C

Woking was rightly proud of its debut turbo supercar’s carbon tub and hydraulically crosslinked suspension, so it showed it off with what looks to us to be the world’s most tempting go-kart. We’ve just had a superb idea for a new one-make race series. McKarts, anyone?