Despite its vast price premium over a standard 911 Turbo, the Flachbau became a surprisingly popular option during the second half of the 1980s. Having started as a Special Wish upgrade for VIP…
Read MoreAfter a troubled gestation that was further delayed following the Volkswagen Audi Groups’s takeover of Automobili Lamborghini in 1998, a highly anticipated replacement for the Diablo finally broke…
Read MoreTwo months after BMW Motorsport had released the ultimate 3.2-litre iteration of the E9 CSL (the ‘Batmobile’), a forced induction version of the diminutive E20 was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor…
Read MoreIn a similar fashion to the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR which was a sports racing version of the W196 Formula 1 car, Maserati’s 300 S was heavily derived from the fabled 250F. Built around a tubular…
Read MoreTo replace the ageing DB2-based platform that had served the company so well since 1950, Aston Martin introduced the brand new DB4 at the Paris Motor Show in October 1958. Styled by Touring…
Read MoreChassis 0036 was the 550 purchased new by Frankfurt racing driver, Theo Helfrich. Between 1949 and 1953, Helfrich mostly campaigned Veritas cars in a mixture of sports and monoposto events.
Read MoreHaving been founded in 1984 following the merger of Nissan’s Oppama and Omori competition departments, Nissan Motorsport International (Nismo) went on to achieve great things in various…
Read MoreThe Group B regulations that arrived in 1982 and took full effect from 1983 spawned some of the most exciting competition cars ever seen. Today, the Group B era is most commonly remembered…
Read MoreHaving established his car company to build the kind of conservatively-styled Grand Tourers that appealed to discrete industrialists like himself, Ferruccio Lamborghini’s firm soon found itself…
Read MoreChassis M3/1107 was the last of seven Mk3 GT40s constructed and one of two built in 1969. Famously, only three of the seven Mk3s were purchased by private buyers. The other four were…
Read MoreBy the mid-to-late 1980s, Willy Koenig’s tuning and customisation company was at the peak of its power. In a little over ten years, Koenig Specials had gone from a small Munich garage to a plush…
Read MoreAlthough the original 2.7-litre 911 Carrera RS of 1972-’73 proved far more popular than Porsche had expected, 20 years passed before the Renn Sport tag was revived for another road-going 911. That…
Read MoreChassis 670002 was the second left hand drive XK120 prototype. Famously, on May 30th 1949 the Old English White car was used by Jaguar for a high speed record attempt on a closed section of the…
Read MoreArguably the greatest upset in the Group C era of sports car racing came at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1991 when the Mazda 787B of Johnny Herbert, Bertrand Gachot and Volker Weidler beat one of the…
Read MoreThe beautiful but very expensive 8C manufactured between 2007 and 2010 had a transformative effect on Alfa Romeo's image. Although the company had built a couple of high performance GTA…
Read MoreBetween 1947 and 1948, Ferrari’s legendary Gioacchino Colombo-designed V12 engine was rapidly enlarged from the 1.5-litres displacement seen in the original 125 Sport to 2-litres as used by the…
Read MoreTo keep the ageing but effective HF Integrale ahead of the competition for what would be the Delta’s fifth season in the World Rally Championship, Lancia produced their most extreme iteration of the…
Read MoreOf the six 911 RSR Porsches campaigned by the works Martini squad in 1973, none contested more events than chassis 9113600588 (also known as R6). R6 made its competition debut alongside R5…
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