Gallery: Cars Technica visits Monaco, a car nerd’s nirvana MONACO, France—A sunny place for shady people. Thats how writer Somerset Maugham described the French Riveria early in the last century, and the description seems particularly apt for Monaco, a little principality that sits on the coast near the French border with Italy. The place isnt all bad and, if you happen to like cars, its actually a bit of paradise. Cars Technica happens to be on holiday at the moment, but given the depth and breadth of interesting vehicles around us we simply had to share. It just so happens our little vacation coincided with the Monte Carlo round of the World Rally Championship being in town, so vehicles spotted in the wild range from the energy-efficient (see the tiny, electric Renault Twizy) to the class of hypercars (see the Ferrari LaFerrari). There were even few cars that wont run you a hefty sum of Euros so, despite the race, you get the feeling this area has a certain breadth of gear to gawk at no matter what time of year. At any rate, enough with the words—on with the cars! Read on Ars Technica | Comments ift.tt/1BaoO7W
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:09:52 +0000