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It's a provocation in diamond-dust white. The first of just ten Apollo EVOs climbs the Goodwood hill — and beneath the hand-laid carbon skin sits everything half the industry is now racing away from: a 6.3-litre V12 with no forced induction, 789 hp, revving freely into five figures.

Apollo, the project carrying the old Gumpert DNA, isn't selling a lap time here — it's selling a feeling. Zero to 100 km/h in 2.7 seconds, 335 km/h flat out, from three million euros; figures that read almost like an afterthought. The EVO is a stand against acceleration inflation: emotion as the true luxury good, hand-finished in the smallest of series.

For Haus of Apex the EVO is the clearest signal of where this corner of the market is heading: away from spec-sheet warfare and toward objects that justify themselves through rarity and feel. A dozen brands can now build a two-second car. Almost none can build one you would cross a continent just to hear.

From Wales comes the season's most uncompromising Escort. MST doesn't recreate the Mk1 — it rethinks it for the track: a 2.5-litre Millington four, naturally aspirated, 350 hp, paired to a six-speed sequential.

£195,000 buys the entry ticket, and the 2027 build slots are all but gone. The price of a new 911 for a Ford from the seventies? For the rally faithful that isn't a question of reason but of belief — the Mk1 is iconography on four wheels.

What MST understands is that the Mk1 was never really about outright pace. It was about feel, noise and the theatre of a lightweight car dancing on the throttle. At 350 hp and a whisper over a tonne, this one promises exactly that — an analogue rally memory rebuilt to modern tolerances.