Although Alfa Romeo’s model line-up from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s had garnered critical acclaim on account of its styling and engineering, there had been little to excite the kind of buyer…
Read MoreA little over five years after Porsche had introduced a targa-topped version of its 911, Ferrari did the same with the Dino 246. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1972, the Dino 246 GTS…
Read MoreAfter Bugatti had unveiled the EB110 SS at Geneva in March 1992, the Brunei Royal Family placed an order for the first three production cars: chassis SS39001, SS39002 and SS39003. A fourth…
Read MoreHaving already created a 594cc version of Fiat’s eponymous 500 back in 1963 (the 595), Abarth elected to take the four cylinder engine’s capacity out to just under 700cc with the 695 SS of 1964.
Read More18 months after the 993-type 911 had made its world debut, Porsche added a highly anticipated Turbo to the range at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1995. Unlike its forced induction…
Read MoreWhen Ford wanted to source a suitable power unit for the original three-door Sierra Group A homologation special, they turned to Cosworth who developed the legendary YBB unit which…
Read MoreFor the 1976 season, new rules came into effect for GT and Sports Prototype racing cars. At the top of the tree, Group 6 was for out-and-out Prototypes and had no minimum production requirement.
Read MoreHaving been the first manufacturer to shoehorn a V12 motor into a mid-engined production car (the Miura), it was inevitable that Lamborghini would need to refine their pioneering machine as…
Read MoreWhen it comes to the coolest cars of the 1980s, there’s not much on a par with AMG’s widebody interpretation of Mercedes’ flagship W126 SEC. Launched initially as a four-door sedan at the…
Read MoreAlongside John Lennon who was a big fan of the four-door Fidia, one of Iso’s best known customers was four-time 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix world champion and noted F1 / sports car…
Read MoreChassis 56655 started life as a conventional left-hand drive 288 GTO painted Rosso Corsa with Nero leather upholstery. In June 1985 the car was delivered to its first owner, Filea SpA, a financial…
Read MoreIn 1993, the first year that the DTM had opened itself up to the FIA’s Class 1 Touring Car regulations, Nicola Larini emerged as champion driving for the debutant Alfa Romeo team. However, the…
Read MoreWith Porsche expected to permanently drop the 911 which was no longer being raced, management decided to take the entry-level 924 racing and sprinkle a little stardust on the…
Read MoreLaunched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1985, the Quattrovalvole was Lamborghini’s fourth major iteration of the Countach theme. Most significantly, it featured a newly enlarged 5.2-litre V12…
Read MoreMost of the circa 30 EB110s built to SS specification were painted yellow, blue, silver or grey. There were also a couple of white, black, green and red cars, but all bar one came with mono paint. The…
Read MoreThe two-year battle for World Sportscar Championship supremacy in 1970 and 1971, when extraordinary five-litre Group 5 cars from Porsche and Ferrari went head-to-head with one another…
Read MoreWith a state-of-art specification that none of its challengers could rival, Nissan’s R32 Skyline GT-R became one of the most successful Group A Touring Car of its era. It then repeated the trick in GT…
Read MoreThe fire at Jaguar’s Browns Lane factory in Coventry on the evening of Tuesday 12th February 1957 affected around one quarter of the complex. Having started in the tyre store, it ripped through the…
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