In terms of the cars Ferrari should have officially offered during the 1980s, perhaps the best candidate was a Spider version of the iconic Testarossa. We use the phrase ‘officially offered’…
Read MoreDuring World War 2, AC’s Thames-Ditton factory had produced Swordfish and Albacore components for Fairey Aviation along with Ordnance QF 6-pounder anti-tank guns, glider undercarriages, flame…
Read MoreOf all the ill-fated projects born during the late 1980s collector car boom, none proved costlier than the epic Bugatti EB110. Having purchased the Bugatti naming rights in 1987, Italian industrialist…
Read MoreAfter the small team of engineers that had secretly been working on a mid-engined design that would incorporate Lamborghini’s much-admired V12 engine finally showed it to the company…
Read MoreLike every T16 Evolution 2, chassis C203 was reserved for use by the works Peugeot Talbot Sport squad based on the outskirts of Paris. It appeared on the registration 709 EXC 75 which had…
Read MoreAlthough Jaguar had officially decided to withdraw from motor racing a few years prior, a batch of seven specially prepared E-types were prepared for competition use during the 1961 season…
Read MoreIf it were possible to create a ranking for the costliest Group B programme undertaken by a manufacturer, that crown would also certainly fall to Porsche whose 959 incurred a monumental…
Read MoreAt the New York Motor Show in March 2010, Mercedes unveiled a GT3 racing version of the critically acclaimed SLS AMG that went on to prove itself an enormously effective machine at both…
Read MoreWhen Ferrari unveiled the highly anticipated 550 Maranello at the Nurburgring in July 1996 it marked an unexpected return to a front-engined layout for the firm’s twelve cylinder two-seat…
Read MoreThree years after the original V8 Vantage had been launched (the V540), Aston Martin introduced an updated version variously known as the V580 and Oscar India. Most significantly, the V580…
Read MoreAlthough 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…
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