The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, was already a serious buyer of high end cars while still Crown Prince of the Southeast Asian kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s; during studies at the Royal…
Read MoreAlthough the Ferrari 348 developed a reputation for nervous on-limit handling, most drivers will never approach the limit of its abilities and, as one of the prettiest automotive designs from the late…
Read MoreBecause Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli had to revive Bugatti from scratch and simultaneously elected to create a state-of-art new car using bespoke parts throughout, the EB110 project must rank…
Read MoreIf any of Nissan’s off-the-shelf R34-based Skyline GT-Rs fail to get a customer’s juices going, they can always turn to Nismo who continue to build an array of specially tuned creations from their…
Read MoreFollowing the launch of BMW’s range-topping E31 8-series at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1989, the Munich firm’s Motorsport department began work on a pair of high…
Read MoreIn March 2001, 18 months after the E46 M3’s launch, BMW added their Sequential Manual Gearbox II to the options list (SMG II). Following on from the original SMG unit offered on the E36 M3, this…
Read MoreBetween 1983 and 1989 Porsche produced several iterations of the 3.2-litre 911 Carrera which have come to be regarded as all-time classics. Among the most sought after are the super lightweight…
Read MoreHaving achieved enormous success together in F1, F2, Touring Cars and Rallying, Ford decided to commission another project from Cosworth, this time for its Group A attack with the recently…
Read MoreChassis 00009/52 was one of ten W194 300 SLs built for the 1952 racing season. Of these, eight saw competitive action. An eleventh W194 was subsequently assembled to serve as a development mule…
Read MoreFor 1997, Honda introduced an NSX with an enlarged C32B engine in order to keep their pioneering flagship on terms with the latest offerings from Ferrari and Porsche. By keeping the…
Read MoreA few months after Chrysler took control of Automobili Lamborghini from the Mimram Group, a subtly updated version of the formidable Countach Quattrovalvole was released. The most…
Read MoreHaving first got involved with sports sponsorship during the early 1970s, Rothmans International went on to make a big splash in the world of motor sport towards the end of that decade when works…
Read MoreAlthough Jaguar had supplied a handful of competition-prepared ‘ZP’ E-types to special customers for 1961, a more comprehensively uprated Lightweight version was developed for 1963…
Read MoreOf the ultra high end track-only specials that have been released in the last few years, out favourite here at Supercar Nostalgia is the epic Porsche 935/19. Conceived as a modern homage to the…
Read MoreChassis 4320 was a left-hand drive Miura S dispatched to Gerino Gerini’s Lamborcar dealership in Rome on October 23rd 1969. Configured in Giallo Miura over Nero leatherette seats with Panno…
Read MoreArguably the most famous win of Mercedes’ dominant 1955 World Sportscar Championship campaign with the 300 SLR came at the 1955 Mille Miglia where Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson…
Read MoreDespite having been conceived strictly as a road car, in late 1972 Maserati’s French distributor, Jean Thepenier, commissioned a Group 4 racing version of the mid-engined Bora with which to contest…
Read More40 years after the original company was wound up, the renowned Italian coachbuilding outfit Touring of Milan was revived by a group of investors. The first products to emerge under new…
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