Salon Privé 2017

About the Event

This year's Salon Prive at Blenheim Palace was yet another amazing and vast display of exquisite, exclusive and really quite expensive automobiles. Despite the thunderstorms, hundreds of supercars, hypercars, racing cars and classic cars were in attendance - meaning there was something for absolutely everyone.

For the first time ever this year, Salon Prive was proceeded by an all new show - Blenheim Classic and Supercar.

Obviously, there were the usual latest and greatest hypercars. Pretty much every poster car you could think of from the last decade was there. Whether it's the Koenigsegg Agera RS, McLaren P1, Pagani Huayra or LaFerrari Aperta; that kind of thing is almost expected at shows like this by now. We were there for the more interesting stuff...

So, what did we find interesting? One of the first cars to stand out was the British hypercar that never was, the Jaguar C-X75! We're told the example shown below is one of only four working cars and was the very stunt car which was used in the James Bond film Spectre. The car was wrapped blue for copyright reasons, however, under the vinyl the orange paint work remains, complete with damage from filming! The story gets more interesting when you ask what's under the hood... The original concept featured a diesel turbine hybrid system, and two of the four cars were built like this. But this car was different; designed by Williams GP, it was based on an LMP1 car, and featured a 5.0 Twin Supercharged V8 which produced over 1,000hp. Adding extra relevance to the story was the revelation that the opening sequence of the chase featuring the C-X75 and DB10 was actually filmed at Blenheim Palace itself.

Other cars of interest were the stunning red McLaren F1, a '51' reg Ferrari F40, Steve McQueen's brown 250 Lusso and the public unveiling of the ATS GT.

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