To replace the normally aspirated RS1600i which had failed to set the world alight in Group A competition, Ford created its first forced induction Escort for public consumption: the RS Turbo.
Read MoreTwo-and-a-half years after the F430’s debut, Ferrari unveiled a super hardcore high performance version conceived to take the platform to its absolute limit. 100kg lighter and 20bhp more powerful…
Read MoreChassis 1120004 was the third Countach LP400 built. It followed the Geneva Show cars from 1973 (chassis 1120001) and 1974 (chassis 1120002) from which point on Lamborghini adopted an even…
Read MoreIn September 1965, Ford signed an agreement with Hertz Rental to supply 1000 special copies of the Shelby Mustang GT350. The resultant GT350H would be available to Hertz Sports Club members for…
Read MoreOf the myriad Delta Integrale special editions offered during the first half of the 1990s, perhaps the most famous are the Martini variants that mimicked Lancia’s works cars piloted to such great…
Read MoreHaving experienced a period of relative stability under the stewardship of renowned British industrialist David Brown between 1947 and 1972, Aston Martin Lagonda (AML) found itself in disarray…
Read MoreErik Comas first won the JGTC GT500 championship with an R33 GT-R and then again with the R34 GT-R in its debut year. Dino DC spends an afternoon with him and his R390 GT1 Le Mans race car turned street car!
Read MoreAs Porsche had refused to sell customer copies of the brand new 935 for the 1976 season, the renowned Kremer Racing outfit in Cologne assembled their own 935-style Group 5 car using a…
Read MorePorsche’s thinking behind the 911 Carrera RS which it launched in late 1972 was to pave the way for the most extreme Group 4 competition car possible (the Carrera RSR). Having largely focused its…
Read MoreChassis 87455 was a UK market F40 supplied through Ferrari’s British distributor, Maranello Concessionnaires, in Egham, Surrey. Registered H380 JPA during December 1990, the F40’s first…
Read MoreSeptember 25th 2007. At 7:28pm, with 10° C on the diabolical circuit of 20.6 km and 73 corners, the Pagani Zonda F crossed the finish line posting a time of 7:27:82, setting a new record for production supercars.
Read MoreA little over four years after production of the wild B4-based RS2 Avant came to an end, Audi unveiled its second Renn Sport offering when the B5 RS4 Avant broke cover at the 1999 Frankfurt…
Read MoreIn order to topple the McLaren F1 from its perch as the fastest production car ever openly offered to the public, Bugatti took a quite different approach. Rather than a philosophy that revolved around…
Read MoreLaunched in August 1965 for the 1966 model year, the Bronco was conceived as Ford’s offering for a Sport Utility Vehicle market that was rapidly beginning to gain popularity. Using a box-section body…
Read MoreCelebrating a six-decade Formula 1 partnership between Shell and Ferrari
Read MoreAlthough the Ace and Aceca proved themselves formidable competitors right out of the box, their obvious weak spot was an engine that could trace its origins all the way back to 1919. Nevertheless, a…
Read MoreTo pave the way for an attack on the SCCA B Production Championship, Ford commissioned Shelby to create the GT350 Mustang, at least 100 of which would have to be manufactured in order to…
Read MoreWhen Honda launched its car building division in 1963, the company offered two miniature models. First to arrive was a diminutive pickup truck powered by either a 356cc dual overhead camshaft…
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