After a 15 year wait, during which hopes of an entry level Lamborghini were raised and dashed on multiple occasions, such a machine finally emerged when the highly anticipated Gallardo was…
Read MoreChassis 141 was one of two Porsche 962s raced by Jochen Dauer in 1989 (the other having been chassis 133). 141 joined Dauer’s stable in the middle of the year at which point it became the team’s…
Read MoreWithin a few months of the Tipo 33 Stradale’s September 1967 launch, Alfa Romeo knew the model was not going to hit the 50-car homologation requirement for the Group 4 Sport category. Rather…
Read MoreIn 1984, Lamborghini started work on a Countach Restyling Prototype that could be assessed as a potential stop-gap model before a proper clean sheet replacement came on stream. The team…
Read MoreChassis 000 00018 was a bare 911 bodyshell delivered direct from Porsche to Kremer Racing in Cologne. It became one of ten brand new units built up to Kremer K3 trim. In addition, ten existing…
Read MoreIso Rivolta was founded in 1962 by Milanese industrialist, Renzo Rivolta. Rivolta made his first fortune manufacturing refrigeration units. After World War 2 he expanded to motorcycle production and, in…
Read MoreMid way through the 1977 Formula 1 season, Renault made a big splash when it entered the championship with a turbocharged car: the RS01. Initially, results were unconvincing. During five…
Read MoreDuring its first 100 years of car manufacturing, Alfa Romeo collaborated with nearly all the best Italian styling houses to include Bertone, Pininfarina, Touring, Ghia and Ital Design. In addition, the Milan…
Read MoreChassis 80756 was completed in 1989 as a standard left-hand drive Euro market F40 in the only colour that was offered by Ferrari: Rosso Corsa with seats trimmed in red fabric upholstery. The car…
Read MoreMost of the circa 30 EB110s built to SS specification were painted yellow, blue, silver or grey. There were also a couple of white, black, green and red cars, but all bar one came with mono paint. The…
Read MoreDuring the 1980s and ‘90s, the Brunei Royal Family acquired a huge fleet of luxury cars along with a considerable number of high performance vehicles. As Brunei’s head of state, absolute monarch…
Read MoreFamously, Ferruccio Lamborghini originally wanted his auto maker to focus on the kind of technically advanced but conservatively styled Grand Tourers favoured by many Italian industrialists of the day.
Read MoreHaving dabbled in a variety of motor sport disciplines since his company’s 1959 inception, Alejandro de Tomaso’s first production model, the Vallelunga Coupe, entered the final throes of development…
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 MoreIn the midst of a two-year campaign that yielded eight class wins for the TZ2 at World Sportscar Championship level, Alfa Romeo gave the order for a rolling chassis to be dispatched from Autodelta…
Read MoreChassis 1739 GT was numerically the third 250 GT SWB and the first to receive special order coachwork. It was commissioned by Dr. Enrico Wax in Genoa, a personal friend of Enzo Ferrari and…
Read MoreHaving embarked on a career as an automotive designer in 1955, Giorgetto Giugaro went on to become arguably the most successful and influential motor car stylist of the post World War 2 era.
Read MoreBy the autumn of 1951 Porsche’s fortunes had been transformed. When 356 production began in 1949, it did so at a converted Austrian sawmill because the firm’s Zuffenhausen plant in Stuttgart…
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