Wirral Life March 2018 | Page 95

Things move fast in Liverpool. Can you believe Halewood car plant was open 55 years ago, the young technological Tesla electric Motor company is now nearly 2 decades old, Cars and Coffee Liverpool has been running for 3 years and Councillor Roz Gladden - Liverpool Lord Mayor has been out of office for a year? For the luxury and popular car brands, striving to stay relevant and fresh, keeping the evolution of their cars ticking along with ever new models, thus making the older cars ever so popular and the classic car market sales go through the roof. Ask the audience here at Cars and Coffee Liverpool and they will tell you their new pension will be their vintage vehicles. One prime example was Mark ‘Radders’ (a local petrolhead, collector and race driver) black Ferrari F40, a true classic sports car to reach a price tag of over £1 million and rising fast. Will your pension mature as quick as that? This powerful 2,936cc (2.9L) mid-engined twin turbocharged V8 engine with output of 471hp, rear-wheel drive was built from 1987 to 1992. As the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO, it was designed to c