Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

| 3 Apr 2025
Classic & Sports Car – Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

Ferrari BBs sparkle on the cover of our May magazine and this month we’ve a dazzling triple test to celebrate the model – and much more, too.

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Ferrari BBs

Classic & Sports Car – Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

A mid-engined, 12-cylinder supercar is the peak of Ferrari today, but at first the marque was playing catch-up.

Our Charlie Calderwood samples Ferrari’s first true ‘supercar’ from p72 of the May 2025 Classic & Sports Car – plus, Damien Smith checks out the past and present of its motorsport career.


TVR Grantura

Classic & Sports Car – Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

Turn to p136, where Simon Hucknall is entertained by a rather sideways TVR Grantura racing car.

Discover the story of this Climax-powered lightweight and why it’s so rare today.


Rover P5B vs Jaguar XJ

Classic & Sports Car – Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

Would you pick the olde-worlde, V8-engined Rover P5B or the thoroughly modern, straight-six-powered Jaguar XJ6?

That’s the choice Simon Hucknall makes from page 102.


Alfa Romeo 8C-2900B ‘Balena’

Classic & Sports Car – Ferrari BB family: inside the May 2025 issue of Classic & Sports Car

Join Mick Walsh behind the wheel of this unique Alfa Romeo 8C-2900B ‘Balena’ from p94 of our May 2025 magazine for an exclusive, post-restoration drive.

It is the final and most dramatic expression of the marque’s pre-war supercar.


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