During the second half of the 1980s, those customers that wanted a twelve cylinder Ferrari in a more discrete package than the flamboyant Testarossa could order a 412. With its elegant…
Read MoreChassis 029 started life as a Pastel Green C-type dispatched to Jaguar’s West Coast distributor, Charles Hornburg in Los Angeles, on November 24th 1952. It was subsequently sold to Francisco…
Read MoreAs a consequence of ever-tightening emissions legislation, by 1974 Ferrari’s twelve cylinder models were frozen out of the massive United States market. With production of the Dino 246 GT…
Read MoreDuring the last three decades of the 20th century, the closest Ford came to creating a successor to its four-time Le Mans-winning GT of the 1960s was the RS200: a purpose-built rally special…
Read MoreDuring a 20 year period from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the combined efforts of Fiat and its Lancia subsidiary won championship after championship at rallying’s highest level. After the Fulvia…
Read MoreHad sales of the base SLR met expectations, it’s doubtful whether Mercedes would have produced the wild Stirling Moss edition which, with its lack of roof, windscreen and other basic amenities, was…
Read MoreA few months after Citroen took control of Maserati in January 1968, the Italian firm began work on a two-seat mid-engined flagship; it would be the first road-going Maserati to adopt this exciting…
Read MoreWith only 14 units known to have been completed in period, Nismo’s S-Tune is one of the most rarely seen factory sanctioned iterations of the legendary Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R. Conceived as…
Read MoreTo qualify a suitable base car for its move into Trans-Am racing for the 1970 season, Plymouth created the legendary AAR Cuda. Conceived to homologate Chrysler’s small block 340 cubic-inch…
Read MoreAlthough Aston Martin had not planned to make an open top version of its range-topping V8 Vantage, the early 1980s began to see a handful of special order cars built to such a configuration…
Read MoreChassis 2311 SA was a uniquely configured first series 400 Superamerica commissioned by French industrialist and Ferrari board member, Michel Paul-Cavallier. Paul-Cavallier was the President of…
Read MoreWhile McLaren’s F1 GTR went on to dominate GT racing’s premier GT1 class during the mid 1990s, the GT3 category was initially the domain of Porsche 964-based 911 3.8 Carrera RSR. Against…
Read MoreCreated as a successor to the all-conquering 904 GTS, Porsche’s iconic Gullwing-doored 906 Carrera 6 seamlessly took over the mantle of premier under two-litre Group 4 Sports car. To qualify…
Read MoreFollowing its return to the World Rally Championship for the 1999 season, Peugeot quickly went on to break the stranglehold that Japanese manufacturers had imposed on the competition which…
Read MoreAfter seven years of unprecedented success with the XK120, C-type and D-type, in October 1956 Jaguar announced that it was to officially withdraw from all forms of motor racing. Having won the…
Read MoreUnveiled at the Paris Motor Show in September 2004, the F430 was Ferrari’s latest entry level model and successor to the critically acclaimed 360. Like the 360, the F430 utilised an aluminium…
Read MoreAlthough the Toyota 2000 GT had broken new ground for a Japanese manufacturer, from a commercial it was an absolute flop with barely 350 units manufactured during a little over three…
Read MoreFollowing in the footsteps of Renault-Alpine which had organised its own ‘one-make’ racing series for several years, 1986 saw Porsche join the fray with its 944 Turbo Cup Championship. The idea of…
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