We do love a Pagani Zonda here at Supercar Nostalgia, but these things are now prohibitively expensive. Set to go under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s sale in Paris on February 5th is an 8000km…
Read MoreThe European Touring Car Championship’s Group A formula kicked off in 1982 and saw BMW’s E28 528i emerge as the premier challenger in the top flight Division 3 category. However, with four…
Read MoreDuring a seven year stretch between 1987 and 1992, Lancia secured all but two of the 14 World Rally Championship titles up for grabs. Seven consecutive Manufacturer crowns for various iterations of…
Read MoreDuring the 1980s and ‘90s, the Brunei Royal Family acquired a huge fleet of luxury cars along with a considerable number of high performance vehicles. As Brunei’s head of state, absolute monarch…
Read MoreBecause the 964-based 911 3.6 Carrera RS launched in early 1991 was not legal for sale in the United States on safety grounds, Porsche caved to customer demand and produced a back-to-basics…
Read MoreProduced between 1992 and 2004, the 456 had been created in the traditional, conservatively-styled mould of Ferrari’s previous front V12-engined four seaters. However, when it came to a…
Read MoreHaving been announced at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2002, Aston Martin’s Zagato-bodied DB7 V12 Vantage (officially dubbed the DB7 Zagato) was subsequently given a public launch at the…
Read MoreHaving employed straight six engines for its range-topping Motorposrt-tuned 5-series since the 1970s, BMW broke with convention and shoehorned a five-litre V8 into the E39 M5 launched in 1998.
Read MoreLike most manufacturers that created Group B homologation specials, Ford found it difficult to shift the RS200 and still had quite a few cars still sitting unsold at the factory several years after…
Read MoreLaunched in production-ready form at the Geneva Salon in March 1970, the Alfa Romeo Montreal perhaps most famously combined an advanced fuel-injected Tipo 33-derived V8 engine with…
Read MoreMcLaren built nine examples of the first generation F1 GTR from 1995, all of which were raced bar one: chassis 09R. Although demand for the GTR from racing teams was strong, McLaren supplied…
Read MoreHaving run a pair of experimental Ford GT40 Prototypes with enormous seven-litre engines at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1965, Ford was convinced that, although neither car completed the distance, this…
Read MoreBMW first introduced a turbocharged iteration of the 2002 in order to retain its competitive advantage over Porsche and Alfa Romeo in the premier Division 3 category of the 1969 European…
Read MoreWhen the Martini-backed 935 emerged in 1976 with its iconic Flachbau front end as opposed to the 911’s traditional headlight configuration, it wasn’t long before customers started to request a similar…
Read MoreAfter a disappointing debut season in 1982, the Lancia 037 came good in 1983 by winning that year’s Driver and Manufacturer World Rally Championship titles. The rear-wheel drive 037’s state-of-art…
Read MoreLaunched in September 1995, the DC2 Integra Type R was Honda’s first iteration of a mainstream R-badged model as the firm had previously only offered the flagship NSX with its now legendary high…
Read MoreEven though the early-to-mid 1990s was not a great time to be selling ultra expensive motor cars of any kind, Lamborghini managed to shift all 150 examples of the souped-up Diablo SE30. In light…
Read MoreIn addition to the revered Shelby Cobras, AC Cars in Great Britain, who had done much development work and still handled the lion’s share of the assembly process, sold Cobras…
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