A car that didn’t have a financial case, a car that didn’t achieve the heady numbers promised – it’s easy to be cynical about the Bulldog. To snipe at it, to lump it with the general decline of the British car industry in the 1980s is easy. But look at it this way. It now has a spiritual successor, a radical, number-bending machine designed by Adrian Newey and carrying the Aston wings on its F1-like nose. Proper F1 performance, that anyone can legally drive.

The AM RB 001, pictured above, is arguably more astounding now than the Bulldog would’ve been in 1979. Which, given how spoiled we are with fast cars these days, is quite some feat.