{"id":238019,"date":"2019-08-17T02:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T00:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/?p=238019"},"modified":"2019-08-17T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T21:34:43","slug":"photo-report-quail-2019-motorsports-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2019\/08\/17\/photo-report-quail-2019-motorsports-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Report: The Quail 2019 – A Motorsports Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we attended the 17th edition of the The Quail – a Motorsports Gathering. It is considered by many to be the most exclusive event of the Monterey Car Week and we were not disappointed this year. Once you pass the gates at the Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club you are face to face with hundreds of the rarest and most expensive cars in the world. <\/p>\n

Boutique pavilions of the world’s leading car manufacturers, including Bugatti, Pagani and Rolls-Royce among others, are complemented with the latests and greatest in aviation, luxury and gourmet food and drinks. As soon as the gates open at 10am you can expect to see a queue for the caviar stand. Although there is no escaping the queue, a waiter will serve you champagne while waiting, how nice! <\/p>\n

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But we came to The Quail 2019 predominantly for the cars. There are cars of all sorts, types and flavours today. They share two common denominators; they are either extremely rare or very expensive. The first brand we visit is Pagani; the Pagani Huayra BC Roadster celebrates its world premiere today. This limited high performance version of the Pagani Huayra Roadster will set you back more than 3 million Euros but for that you get a beautiful and extremely fast machine handcrafted in Italy and powered by an AMG V12. <\/p>\n

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Pagani celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Zonda this year so behind the Huayra BC Roadster is a display of five Pagani Zondas including the only red Zonda Cinque ever made and the 2017 Zonda Barchetta.<\/p>\n

The next world premiere was unveiled at Bugatti. Built to celebrate 110 years of Bugatti, and to pay hommage to the EB 110, Bugatti unveiled a new Chiron-based hypercar called the Bugatti Centodieci. This translates to ‘110’ from Italian. With a very different design and an additional 100 hp, it is the third limited edition Chiron-based model in just over a year. Some people are calling it ‘the Winkelmann-effect’ but I think it is positive to see more Bugatti models out of Molsheim and the Bugatti brand gaining more presence globally. <\/p>\n\r\n