Five years after he had joimed Porsche (back when the company was based in the Austrian town of Gmund and the 356/1 prototype was still on the drawing board), engineer Ernst Fuhrmann was given…
Read MoreChassis 031 was a 917 dispatched to the Gulf Oil-backed John Wyer Automotive team in England for use during the 1970 season. For carnet reasons it ran with the identity of chassis 026 which had been…
Read MoreThe mid 2010s saw Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche engage in a three-way battle for supremacy with a trio of limited edition flagship modes that set new performance standards. Compared to the…
Read MoreAlthough company founder Colin Chapman had attempted to move Lotus further upmarket during the 1970s, his “simplify, then add lightness” philosophy was still evident in models like the Esprit…
Read MoreIn order to satisfy those customers for whom the original 553bhp EB110 GT did not quite hit the mark, Bugatti introduced the monster SS version at Geneva in March 1992. In order to take the…
Read MoreChassis SL76/151 was the second T70 Mk3B GT sold to the Swiss Ferrari distributor, Georges Filipinetti. It followed chassis SL76/145 which incurred heavy damage on its debut outing at the…
Read MoreAlthough the Oil Crisis of 1974-1975 forced BMW to prematurely kill off the 2002 Turbo owing to massively reduced demand for high performance cars, it ultimately did nothing to affect the…
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 MoreAlthough from a technical perspective the Miura still had plenty of potential for further development, once Lamborghini unveiled the Countach prototype at Geneva in March 1971, attention turned to the…
Read MoreChassis 0514M was a Scaglietti-bodied 750 Monza original sold to well-heeled 41 year old privateer, Luigi Piotti of Rome. Piotti’s first Ferrari was a 212 Inter road car purchased in 1951 (chassis 0111ES).
Read MoreMercedes unveiled their final and most extreme iteration of the 190 E 2.3 / 2.5-16 theme at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1990. Created to homologate a wild new aero kit, a further uprated…
Read MoreKLA12558 was one of two consecutively numbered Countach 25th Anniversaries ordered by the British Lamborghini distributor, Portman, at the height of the late 1980s collector car boom. Portman…
Read MoreLaunched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2006, the 599 GTB Fiorano was Ferrari’s second generation front V12-engined two seater from the modern era and replaced the long-running 550…
Read MoreAt the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2001, Alfa Romeo revived the iconic GTA moniker first seen in the mid 1960s when the Giulia-based Gran Turismo Allegerita began its illustrious racing…
Read MoreHaving abandoned the Escort RS1700T soon after his return to Ford as boss of the company’s Motorsport department, Stuart Turner commissioned a designed-from-scratch Group B car capable…
Read MoreChassis 060 was one of two late production examples of the Maserati 5000 GT that received coachwork by Frua of Turin. It was commissioned by 25 year old Paris-domiciled Shah Karim al…
Read MoreEven though Porsche had committed a vast sum of money to their 956 Group C programme, the idea of a production-based model taking the fight to Ferrari in Group B proved too good to resist.
Read MoreWhen the Volkswagen Audi Group (VAG) acquired Automobili Lamborghini in 1998, hopes were high that the Italian manufacturer would finally be in a position to offer another junior model that could sell…
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