7 British Sports Cars That Humiliated Ferrari - Then Vanished

Britain built cars that embarrassed Ferrari at Le Mans, left Enzo lost for words, and could out-drag the world's finest supercars. Then Britain threw them all away. Seven British sports cars that humiliated Ferrari - and what happened to them next. From the D-Type that handed Le Mans to a private Scottish club team, to the Speed 12 that was so fast its own maker cancelled it out of fear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • howmanyleft.co.uk — DVLA survivor registration data • Bonhams auction archives — DB4 GT Zagato sale records • Autocar road test archive — TVR Cerbera vs Ferrari 550 Maranello • AROnline — Jensen Motors and British Leyland production history • Graces Guide — company records, Jensen Motors and TVR • Goodwood Festival of Speed — footage and specifications ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT FADED CHROME TV ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Britain built some of the greatest cars and motorcycles the world has ever seen. Faded Chrome TV is where their stories live — the rise, the glory, and the rust. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.