Supercars may be hard to spot, but you'd be even harder pressed to snap those that never made it to production
sports racing cars. At the end of its competition career, it was acquired by Pininfarina, where it was transformed by. Martin devised an extremely low, wedge-shaped body which almost completely covered all four wheels and included a sliding glass canopy instead of conventional doors.
The Modulo was only ever intended to be a show car, but it was restored more than 40 years after its first appearance and took to the road for the first time in 2018.After Ford’s dominant success at Le Mans with the GT40, the GT70 was a radical departure. It was intended as a rally car and swapped the GT40’s bellowing V8 for either a 1.6-litre four-cylinder motor lifted from an Escort RS or a Capri RS2600’s V6 engine.
Rally ace Roger Clark was drafted in to drive the GT70 and he used it on the 1971 Ronde Cevenole Rally in France. However, reliability was a problem and the Ford didn’t get on top of this, so the project was cancelled after just six GT70s had been built.Swiss garage owner Peter Monteverdi had enjoyed some small success with his High Speed models and wanted to go further in every sense with the Hai. It was a mid-engined supercar to rival the Lamborghini Miura and used a 450bhp 7.
The problems came when Monteverdi wanted to move to a production model and the reality of cost and complexity of supercar manufacture hit home. Two prototypes were made and the original Geneva Motor Show display car still exists, but the Hai remained a what-if.Only four years separated the XVR and the SRV, but the latter looked like it was the product of a different era. Just, it had a cab-forward design and a transverse mid-mounted engine which left enough room in the cabin for four seats.
Undeterred, Aston filled the Bulldog’s cabin with a mix of traditional leather and high-tech LED touchscreens. This was the plan to make the car appeal to wealthy Middle Eastern buyers, but Victor Gauntlett pulled the plug on the car when he took over as Aston’s chairman in 1981. The one and only Bulldog was later sold by the factory for £130,000, and has recently emerged from a large-scale restoration.
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