After a 34 year production run that had seen several million cars built across six different generations, Ford elected to kill off its eponymous Escort in favour of an all-new model: the Focus.
Read MoreIn the midst of a trend for unimaginative retro-themed automotive styling around the turn of the millennium, Audi broke with convention to create a genuinely fresh design language for some of its…
Read MoreHaving made its debut during the early part of 1999, Porsche’s 996-based 911 GT3 R, along with its subsequent RS replacement, became the dominant force in the junior categories of a revitalised GT…
Read MoreFor the 2009 season, BMW embarked on a GT racing programme with the critically acclaimed E92 M3 Coupe. Initial outings focused on the American Le Mans Series where GT2 spec. machines were…
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 its announcement in January 2005, production of BMW’s fifth generation 3-series began the following March when the brand new E90 Sedan was simultaneously launched at the Geneva…
Read MoreAfter a two-and-a-half year absence, Porsche re-introduced the GT3 with a second generation 996-based variant at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2003. Porsche had conceived the original GT3…
Read MoreEven though the elegant E24 6-series had been the driver’s choice when it came to executive class Coupes from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s, BMW chose not to offer a direct replacement when…
Read MoreWhen Porsche unveiled the 996 type 911 at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1997, it marked the biggest raft of changes yet seen to the firm’s Flat 6-powered icon. Since going into production…
Read MoreOnce Porsche had launched the 996-based GT3 homologation special at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1999, the company set about building an even more extreme turbocharged version that…
Read MoreHaving been among the most consistent advocates of turbo technology for approaching three decades, by the late 1990s Porsche had produced forced induction 911s on a trio of different…
Read MoreBy the early 2000s, BMW had produced four different iterations of the critically acclaimed 5-series: the original E12 of 1972 was replaced by the updated E28 in 1981 which was in turn followed by the…
Read MoreFor the 1998 one-make Supercup championship, Porsche introduced a new 996-based racer dubbed the 911 GT3 Cup. The original road-going 996-type 911 had been launched in rear-wheel…
Read MoreWhen Porsche introduced the 911 in 1964, the company gambled that a bigger, more expensive six cylinder model would offer broader market appeal than the four cylinder 356. The decision…
Read MoreThe World Is Not Enough was the 19th film in the James Bond franchise and the third to start Pierce Brosnan as secret agent 007. The plot saw Bond assigned to protect the daughter of an oil magnate…
Read MoreWhatever was thought of the controversial EB110, Bugatti’s revival under Romano Artioli was never criticised for a lack of ambition. Having acquired the rights to the famous French firm in 1987, Artioli…
Read MoreIn 2002, Audi launched their first mid-range RS-badged offering: the C5 RS6. Prior to this, only the more compact B4 and B5-based models had been manufactured in RS trim (the RS2 Avant and RS4…
Read MoreWhen the C199 SLR McLaren made its debut in late 2003, the long overdue absence of a super high performance Mercedes-Benz that you could actually buy came to an end. Aficionados of the…
Read MorePowered by Squarespace.
