Rob Luck drives Production Proto 001. (see Photos here)

You peel off the Peninsula Freeway near Mornington and ahead lies the 34 corners of the steep ascent to Arthur's Seat, 314 metres (1600 ft)  above sea level). On this day we get a completely clear run all the way to the summit and the Nagari carves the corners like a vet race car, accelerating relentlessly between the tight hairpins and dancing, slightly tail-out,  through the fast kinks in between. There are just two positions – foot flat on the throttle, foot flat on the brake. You can tell if a car is good if it will maintain that discipline right through a course – no throttle feathering or coasting to corners. And the Nagari is good. Thoroughbred. It just delivers, whatever you throw at it.

You know when you are going pretty quick when an experienced motoring man in the passenger seat is braking ahead of you. So it was with Campbell Bolwell on this day – bravely strapped into the second seat and inviting me to do my worst – or best.

'Are you getting a bit of oversteer on the fast ones,' he says calmly, while trying to pull the armrest off the door.

'Yes,' I say ' but we are near the limit and the kinks here are mainly off-camber. '

In fact, the tail just steps out a fraction and virtually self-corrects. Nothing more than a flinch on the tiller, or you can drive it through the drift with the throttle....(Download the complete article here)