The super tuner era of the 1970s and 80s certainly churned out some spectacular creations, but Lamborghini’s Countach was generally regarded as sufficiently extreme in OEM trim that few…
Read MoreHaving dominated the early 1970’s Group 4 GT racing scene with normally aspirated 911 RSRs, Porsche created a forced induction model for its customers to race during the second half of the…
Read MoreFollowing on from the original A6 GCS which since 1947 had proven an enormously successful mount for the popular under two-litre Sports car class, Maserati produced an improved Series 2…
Read MoreAfter a self-imposed year in exile, Scuderia Ferrari returned to the World Sportscar Championship for 1969 with the all-new 312 P. Ferrari’s absence from the 1968 campaign had come about as a result of…
Read MoreUnlike the 964-type 911 which had proven something of a slow seller particularly in its twilight years, the substantially revamped 993 launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1993 became a…
Read MoreOther than Porsche’s 911, few cars can rival the Lotus Esprit for the longevity of its styling. Originally penned by Giorgetto Giugiaro and subsequently updated by the Ital Design chief for the Turbo…
Read MoreAfter the best part of 15 years during which bespoke coachbuilding had all but died out, a new era for highly individual customisation began during the late 1970s. The period that followed saw an…
Read MoreChassis 4301066 was the M1 Procar supplied to German-domiciled Austrian privateer, Franz Konrad. Having successfully campaigned a Porsche 914/6 GT during 1973 and ‘74, Konrad moved…
Read MorePorsche’s domination of 1970s GT racing initially came about thanks to the creation of an ultra specialised Renn Sport 911 designed to exploit the Group 4 regulations, approval for which required…
Read MoreWhen it came to in-house-built high performance Saloon cars, BMW’s Motorsport division had the sector pretty much sewn up throughout the 1980s. However, when General Motors acquired Lotus in…
Read MoreAt the Los Angeles Motor Show in November 2012 Mercedes-Benz unveiled the third and final production version of the SLS AMG: the Black Series. A further uprated version of the standard SLS…
Read MoreBetween 1971 and ‘72, Ford’s legendary Capri RS2600 was the class of the European Touring Car Championship field. Six ETCC wins from eight outings in 1971 were followed by an astonishing eight
Read MoreTwo-and-a-half years after the original Miura was unveiled, Lamborghini introduced a further uprated variant at the 1968 Turin Motor Show. Initially conceived as a new range-topper to sell…
Read MoreEven though it had to compete with some super high end rivals from the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren, Bugatti and Koenigsegg, the Pagani Zonda has seemingly come to…
Read MoreThe 996 famously broke with existing 911 convention on account of its water-cooled engine and bigger bodyshell. Prior to this, the 911 had always utilised an air-cooled motor and a bodyshell that…
Read MoreWhen it comes to the best iteration of any given 911, there’s a strong case for that car to be a base-spec., rear-drive, non-sunroof normally aspirated Coupe. Whereas some of Porsche’s Renn Sport…
Read MoreUnlike most other manufacturers, Ferrari was not often prone to a special edition during the 20th century. However, poor trading conditions around the early 1990s and a need to shift some more…
Read MoreThe 2.7-litre Carrera RS introduced for model year 1973 was Porsche’s first 911-based homologation special and spawned a series of dominant racing variants that annihilated the opposition. Less…
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