After Group B cars were banned from the World Rally Championship and Group A took over as the premier class, Lancia’s Martini-backed Deltas collected a trio of back-to-back Driver and…
Read MoreAlthough Ford dealers had expressed concern about their ability to sell the 5000 Sierra RS Cosworths required to get the car homologated into the FIA’s Group A category, customers couldn’t…
Read MoreAlthough the heavily revised 1999 model year Diablo VT and SV launched in late 1998 were the first new models to arrived since the Volkswagen Audi Group’s acquisition of Automobili Lamborghini…
Read MoreAfter their disappointing run at Le Mans in 1997, TWR and Nissan pledged to return in 1998 with an uprated R390: more speed and improved reliability was the order of the day. The R390 programme…
Read MoreTowards the end of 1987, a small group of Jaguar engineers began work on a road-going successor to the C and D-types that had won the Le Mans 24 Hours five times between 1951 and…
Read MoreAt the 1997 Geneva Motor Show, Ital Design unveiled a fully operational concept in conjunction with Alfa Romeo. Dubbed Scighera after a Milanese mist, this latest high end sports car creation…
Read MoreConverting racing prototypes into road-going specials has produced some of the most exciting cars in history. Up until the late 1960s, when most competition machinery was still equipped with…
Read MoreBy the late 1990s, the global economic outlook had improved sufficiently that Volkswagen Audi Group boss, Ferdinand Piech, elected to go on a buying spree of high end manufacturers that he…
Read MoreUnfortunately, owing to poor trading conditions caused by a global economic recession, over the winter of 1991-1992 BMW elected to abandon its plans for an M1 successor after Ital Design had…
Read MoreFollowing the launch of BMW’s range-topping E31 8-series at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1989, the Munich firm’s Motorsport department began work on a pair of high…
Read MoreYamaha started life as a piano and reed organ manufacturer in 1887. It then expanded to building motorcycles during 1954. Having become known for its high performance engineering prowess…
Read MoreAnnounced in February 1987, the second generation Sierra was conceived as a more conventionally-styled successor to the avant garde, highly aerodynamic original that had in turn replaced the long…
Read MoreHaving initially dabbled in the small sports car and utility vehicle market, a lack of early commercial success left Honda ready to quit automobile manufacture had the first generation Civic launched in
Read MoreAs a consequence of an exclusivity agreement for production models signed by Ferrari and Pininfarina in late 1952, other Italian coachbuilders rarely got a look in when it came to creating…
Read MoreDuring a famous 1998 spree, Volkswagen Audi Group Chairman, Ferdinand Piech, added a trio of high end marques to the German mega Corp’s already impressive portfolio of motor…
Read MoreHaving established an enviable reputation on the special stages that culminated in seven outright Safari Rally wins between 1970 and ‘82, Nissan decided to embark on a Group B programme for 1983.
Read MoreHaving begun to collaborate with an official DTM racing programme in 1989, Mercedes-Benz and AMG forged ever closer ties during the years that followed. In 1990, the two firms signed a…
Read MoreFollowing assessment of a small number of prototypes between 1986 and ‘87, Porsche finally unveiled a production-ready 911-based Speedster at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1988.
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