Having successfully managed Jaguar’s European Touring Car Championship effort with the XJS between 1982 and ‘84 (a programme that yielded 16 wins and the 1984 Driver’s title), Tom Walkinshaw…
Read MoreWhen Honda launched its car building division in 1963, the company offered two miniature models. First to arrive was a diminutive pickup truck powered by either a 356cc dual overhead camshaft…
Read MoreAfter the Mimram Group headed by brothers Patrick and Jean-Claude acquired Automobili Lamborghini in mid 1980, a plan to expand the firm’s one-car model range was immediately…
Read MoreBy the beginning of 1992, the Testarossa was over eight years old. Since its launch in late 1984, tastes had changed significantly and, as the 1990s dawned, Ferrari’s Flat 12 supercar began to look dated.
Read MoreWhen the 205 arrived in 1983, it quickly turned Peugeot’s fortunes around. Although the firm was not in a perilous financial state, it had acquired a somewhat stuffy image thanks to a back catalogue of…
Read MoreHaving last produced a motor car in 1952, the Bugatti brand was revived in the early 1990s by Romano Artioli, a wealthy Italian vehicle distributor who had acquired the naming rights to the…
Read MoreAlthough upon its release the NSX was widely considered the finest mid-range supercar available, the everyday nature of its set-up left certain customers yearning for a hard core version. Something…
Read MoreAfter 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…
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