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to create a very cool aesthetic that compliments the “ y by night” paintwork. Even the badges have been given the sinister treatment with a monochrome union ag set against the dark chrome work. As you move inside the sports seats are way more purposeful than those of the GT, trimmed in aged tan leather with brogue pattern detail and the Silverstone Edition logo (showing the circuit shape with its original air eld) stitched into the head restraints. The rear seats are gone in favour of two gloriously appointed storage bins and to nish off the interior detail the wood trims start with untreated black and fade to a dark grain across the panels. The fold out picnic seat from the boot of the Speedback is replaced with a fold out compartment that can be tailored to house the owners’ choice of equipment, the show car held a camera kit, but this could be a drinks cabinet or your shotgun cartridges, it’s just one of those quirky cool ideas that they do so well.
Every car that comes out of the workshop at David Brown Automobiles is work of art, the Speedback is glorious, the Mini is the perfect supercool town car, but the Silverstone Edition Speedback, with a limited run of only 10 cars, is the absolute killer, style epitomised, for me, the best view of this car is the back end, the shape, the lights, the afterburner exhausts... which is a good job as I think that’s view most people will see as it disappears into the horizon.
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