Experience 04 of Five Drives
Collector's Circuit
A car with a pedigree, a curator with opinions, and a collection that wants to know which one you would take home.
Your guideLuca, Automotive Curator
The objectiveYour Collector’s Record
Signature momentThe Flat12 collection
The Provenance
Twenty-odd seconds of the car, the road and the collection. Luca would like it on record that twenty seconds does not do any of it justice. He has the whole afternoon to make up for it.
The storyline
How The Circuit Unfolds
Lineage on the way out, character on the open road, and a whole collection to judge at Flat12. You finish with a Collector’s Record, and very possibly a shortlist.
13:00 0113:00 · Lineage
Every great car has a family tree. Luca knows all the awkward relatives.
Check-in done, you press Begin Collector’s Circuit while parked, and Luca names the three things he wants you to notice today: lineage, craftsmanship and character. On the opening route he tells the story of the brand, the models that made its name, and exactly where your car sits in the bloodline.
13:50 0213:50 · Character In Motion
Now stop listening to Luca, and listen to the car.
Out on the open road he points out what defines this one: the sound, the steering, the way the engine answers, the materials under your hands. He keeps it brief, partly because he is passionate rather than rude, and partly because the car is making most of his points for him.
15:10 0315:10 · The Collector’s Eye
Three choices, and you will have to defend every one of them.
Three photographs go into your record. The Icon, the car with the greatest significance. The Detail, the design or engineering touch most people walk straight past. The Collector’s Choice, the one you would actually take home. Each needs a sentence on why, and Luca will read them.
17:10 0417:10 · The Record
The long way home, with the whole story finally joined up.
On the return Luca connects the car’s history, and the way it just drove, to the choices you made at Flat12. Then he goes quiet and leaves you to it for most of the way. Back at the club your Collector’s Record is waiting, saved to your profile and your Passport.
Debrief
On The Record
You come back with a record of your own taste, in your own words, and a firm view on at least one car you had never heard of at lunch. Check-out takes minutes. Dillon follows up tomorrow, and may ask whether The Collector’s Choice is still hypothetical.
That is one of five. There are four more, and we have said too much already.
