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One Lap of the Web: Stuck in the mud, and eye surgery ahead of the Mint 400

-- Take a tour of the Koenigsegg factory, which is really a hangar once used by the Scania Air Force Wing, proving that jets really weren't born from old Opels. See the One:1 that recently made its debut at the Geneva motor show, as well as the Agera R that was used in Need for Speed. One guy spends 50 (that's five-oh hours) hours detailing a Koenigsegg for the Geneva show, which if you think about it isn't really that bizarre.

It’s the McBatmobile! McLaren X-1 debuts at Pebble Beach

McLaren Special Operations has delivered the McLaren X-1 to Pebble Beach, a re-bodied, one-off McLaren MP4-12C. We knew McLaren were planning a special car for Pebble Beach, and this is it – the McLaren X-1 Concept. If McLaren were looking for a way to show just how much the customisation service at Woking - McLaren Special Operations – can actually offer clients, the commission from an un-named McLaren client to create this one-off McLaren must have been manna from heaven.

Edo turn Aston Martin DB9 in to Aston Martin DBS. Why?

The Edo Competition Aston Martin DBS When your business is to play games customising exotic cars you must get used to strange requests from clients with more cash than class. We’ve all seem abominations that should have been still-born, but business is business and tuners aren’t going to turn down business if it brings in the readies. So when Edo competition got a Russian client asking them to turn his five year old Aston Martin DB9 in to a DBS they were happy to oblige.