Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1982, the Countach 5000 S marked the arrival of an enlarged Lamborghini V12 production engine for the first time since 1966 when the original 3.5-litre…
Read MoreReleased in January 1968, the Twin Cam was the first true high performance Mk1 Escort. It combined the venerable DOHC 1.6-litre engine that had powered the legendary Lotus Cortina with the smaller…
Read MoreThe inaugural International Race of Champions (IROC) was the brainchild of Roger Penske, Les Richter and Mike Phelps who wanted to create a winter series that would pitch the world’s top…
Read MoreChassis 0501 SA was one of 13 Series 1 410 Superamericas equipped with Pinin Farina’s ‘standard’ coachwork (however, one of these cars was re-numbered form an existing machine so twelve…
Read MoreAlthough the Ferrari 348 ranked among the best looking vehicles of its generation, razor sharp on-limit handling meant the car’s ultimate performance was difficult to unlock for mere mortals. After…
Read MoreAfter a 17 year gap, Porsche revived the 911 Carrera RS with a 964-based machine launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1991. Created to pave the way for a racing version (and also an attempt…
Read MoreHaving initially struggled to make it as a mainstream auto maker, the first generation Civic launched in 1972 transformed Honda’s fortunes to the point that, by the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest…
Read MoreLike its forebear, the Mk2 Escort went on to have an enormously successful competition career, perhaps the highlight of which was Ari Vatanen’s 1981 World Rally Championship crown driving a…
Read MoreChassis 105 was one of two customer 956s sold to the Joest Racing team for 1983 (the other having been chassis 104). Since its inception in 1978, Reinhold Joest’s team had rapidly become one of the…
Read MoreAs a consequence of a burgeoning domestic touring car scene, Mercedes’ hot 190 E Group A special went on to have a stellar late-life competition career that culminated in both the DTM’s…
Read MoreBeginning in 1962, the governing body of motor sport decided the de facto World Sports Car Championship would be decided by cars from the Grand Touring category. By contrast, purpose…
Read MoreAlthough Porsche only expected to find buyers for 500 examples of their new 911 2.7 Carrera RS homologation special, the model proved so popular that over 1500 were completed by the time…
Read MoreIn a similar fashion to its E30 predecessor, BMW’s E36 3-series became the benchmark against which all entry-level Saloons, Coupes and Convertibles were measured. Its combination of…
Read MoreChassis 1120004 was the third Countach LP400 built. It followed the Geneva Show cars from 1973 (chassis 1120001) and 1974 (chassis 1120002) from which point on Lamborghini adopted an even…
Read MoreAlthough Ferrari’s legendary Gioacchino Colombo-designed V12 started life with a displacement of 1496cc in 1948, by the end of that year it had been enlarged to 1995cc (166cc per cylinder).
Read MoreWhen Porsche created the hardcore 911 2.7 Carrera RS for the 1973 model year, many of the company’s senior managers were not convinced it would be easy to sell the 500 cars needed to…
Read MoreThe final iteration of Aston Martin’s legendary non-Vantage V8 was introduced at the New York Motor Show in January 1986. It most notably marked a return to fuel-injection for the revamped…
Read MoreChassis 198.040.5500640 was the first of four steel-bodied 300 SL Gullwings specially prepared by the Mercedes-Benz competition department for assessment during 1955. Steel as opposed to…
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