The Lancia Rally 037 was a Group B rally car produced by Lancia in cooperation with Abarth and Pininfarina. It...
Few race cars are as universally acclaimed as the Porsche 956. The car is a brilliantly engineered aesthetic wonder, born...
In 1983 Porsche produced a stunning one-off road car for TAG owner Mansour Ojjeh. Based on a 934 chassis, it was designed to mimic the potent 935 racecars and subsequently became the one of the first slantnoses. Both the front and rear sections were made similar to the potent 935...
The Grid-Porsche S2, manufactured by GRID Motor Racing in England in 1983, was specifically designed to compete in Group C...
In 1974, Lamborghini unleashed an incredibly audacious car, which ignited a craze among car enthusiasts of all ages, particularly the...
Following a promising year with the LC1 Group 6 prototype, Lancia wanted to continue being one of the frontrunners for the Constructors’ World Championship and so they started working on developing the LC2. It was the first and only Italian car built to Group C regulations. Like the LC1, the...
An updated version of the Audi Sport Quattro – given the ‘S1’ moniker – was introduced at the end of...
The greatest version of the 959 is, and always will be, the Rothman’s liveried Paris-Dakar racing version. Built in 1985 for...
The greatest version of the 959 is, and always will be, the Rothman’s liveried Paris-Dakar racing version. Built in 1985 for three-time Dakar winner René Metge, this 959 is just one of three cars produced by Porsche to take on the grueling Paris-Dakar rally that year. The 1985 rally didn’t...
Introduced at the Paris Auto Show in 1984, the Pininfarina designed Ferrari Testarossa truly shocked everyone with unprecedented styling, remarkable...
For years, many people were baffled when they opened up the Guinness Book of Records and discovered that the world’s...
The Koenig Competition, a modified Ferrari Testarossa, was one of the most successful and well-known creations by Koenig Specials. With a design reminiscent of the Ferrari F40, it boasted a powerful twin-turbo V12 engine capable of producing up to 1,000HP (if the customer requests it), a feat that was unheard...
After a 30 year hiatus from endurance racing due to the 1955 tragedy at Le Mans, Mercedes thought enough time...
The Sledgehammer, a modified 1988 Chevrolet Corvette, was the brainchild of renowned Corvette specialist Reeves Callaway. Seeking to create a...
In 1988, Jaguar won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with an entry of five XJR-9 cars. The winning car, driven by Jan Lammers, Johnny Dumfries and Andy Wallace, completed 394 laps and covered a distance of 3313 (5332.79km). This followed Jaguar’s earlier victory at Le Mans when the the...
The Lamborghini Countach became a legend in its own time, but Automobili Lamborghini took this masterpiece one-step further. To celebrate...
Founded by industry veteran Gerald Wiegert in Wilmington, California, this company, through the production of its Vector W8 Twin Turbo,...
Between 1991 and 1992, a number of adventurous owners let Zagato extensively modify their 348 TBs into Zagato Elaboraziones. While the cars certainly looked faster then there stock counterparts, the engine and running gear remained identical to the 348 TB. This makes sense, as Zagato wasn’t in the tuning business,...
To celebrate 40 years of Ferrari, Enzo had his design team create a supercar that translated racing car technology to...
Built for a new series called the Intercontinental Challenge, the XJR-15 was a limited-production supercar built by Jaguar Sport, a...
Since 1966, pretty much every supercar of note came from within Europe. Many of these supercars were known to be temperamental, with service intervals as short as 3,000 miles, and many an engine and transmission would need a rebuild or repair after being pushed too hard, too long. In other...
Isdera was a little known German engineering and sports car specialist. Few people were aware of its existence until the...
In 1985 Automobili Lamborghini was working on Project 132, with the intention of succeeding the Countach at the top of...
Starting as a project aimed at developing a high-performance off-road vehicle for military use, the final model slated to go into production with the name LM002 was first unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in 1986. At the time of its launch the LM002, a completely different car from any...
The Lotec C1000 is a one-of-a-kind supercar that not a lot of people have heard about before. Originally commissioned by...
Nissan started making Group C cars in 1983. At first a Nissan engine would be mounted in a foreign-made chassis...
The Porsche 962 (also known as the 962C in its Group C form) was built by Porsche as a replacement for the 956 and designed mainly to comply with these IMSA’s GTP regulations. The 962 was introduced at the end of 1984, from which it quickly became successful through private...
The original Bugatti EB110 debuted on September 15th, 1991 – the date of company founder Ettore Bugatti’s 110th birthday. But...
The original Viper was dreamed up as a modern-day Shelby Cobra, a perfect rebound from the malaise era and Lee...
As Jagaur’s first production supercar, the XJ220 was a bold step for the British company. Looking at the company’s history, you would have to stretch back to the XK120 to find an equally impressive machine. During the forty years between these models, there are many LeMans winning racecars and striking...
