Chassis C201 was the first T16 Evolution 2 that Peugeot used in competition. 20 of these cars were built as per the Evolution regulations that permitted a host of upgrades every twelve months so long…
Read MoreTo replace the long-running E9 CSL which had soldiered on well beyond its expected lifespan, BMW homologated the E24 635 CSi for the 1980 Group 2 Touring Car category. That season…
Read MoreWhen the first generation Type 8L A3 was launched in September 1996, it marked Audi’s return to the compact class after an absence of 18 years. The last Audi to compete in this market had been the 50…
Read MoreHaving successfully managed Jaguar’s touring car and prototype competition programmes, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) was the obvious choice to create the ultimate factory sanctioned…
Read MoreChassis 8971 was the first of two 365 P Tre-Postis built by Ferrari in collaboration with Pininfarina. Both were based on state-of-the-art P car underpinnings from Ferrari’s sports car racing programme…
Read MoreAfter the 288 GTO and F40 had used twin turbocharged V8s to propel them to hitherto unseen levels of performance, Ferrari took a different approach for their third generation limited production…
Read MoreHaving first appeared on an uprated iteration of the critically acclaimed NSX in late 1992, Honda’s Type R moniker was subsequently used for a range of hardcore performance-oriented models that…
Read MoreFive 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…
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