Built to order for Ron Dennis: the Porsche 911 Turbo Flachbau with a £350k price tag
The only car that shouts ‘1980s’ louder than a Guards Red 911 Turbo is a Guards Red 911 Turbo ‘Flachbau’ or ‘flat nose’ – the look inspired by Porsche’s 935…
If you think cars can only be fun if they have 1000bhp engines and bulbous coachwork covered in spoilers, splitters and winglets, this month’s dealer car might not be for…
This shouldn’t be possible. Revs held on the red line and then sidestep the pedal on the left. Smoke, fury, thrust. Dip the pedal, lift the throttle, rip the lever…
Wandering around the big hangar at the last Sunday Scramble at Bicester Motion, my eyes were drawn to the squat but somehow still beautiful red racing car parked in the…
That’s the best an NSX has ever looked Isn’t it stunning? And that’s saying something because Honda’s original NSX of 1990 was a bit of a design wonder in its…
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £13.8M The huge prices for modern supercars may have been the talk of this year’s Monterey auctions, but the remarkable sum…
Aston Martin’s futuristic Lagonda was for years given a wide berth by collectors fearful of its famously fragile electronics, but now the wedge-shaped wonder penned by William Towns has come…
Genuine Ferrari 360 Challenge race cars have surged in value in recent years, with prices climbing from a low of around £100,000 during the 2010s to as much as half…
Back in 1974 Porsche created the 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1. Despite being the Stuttgart firm’s first ever 911 turbo racer, it finished second overall at Le Mans beating every…
Many of the world’s great circuits have their signature corners. Spa has Eau Rouge, Suzuka 130R, Monza the Parabolica and so on. Their reputations have been earned for their challenging…
Have you seen the reboot of The Grand Tour? Probably not if you’re not an Amazon Prime subscriber, but if you like car shows actually presented by car people, you…
I wasn’t expecting this None of us were. When Toyota’s factory racing arm Gazoo Racing (better known as just GR these days) said it was launching a new performance product…
Gold plated car becomes a fact. So ran the headline in the April 28, 1955 edition of The New York Times above a story about the jaw-dropping appearance of this…
Can you think of a worse time to have launched a business selling an expensive, single-seat racing car for the road than 2009, just months after markets went into meltdown…
This may not be the car readers of this august journal have been waiting for, for these last 10 years, but it is the car its creator has wanted and,…
It is possible that I am going to look foolish writing this the day after the Belgian Grand Prix – thanks to summer schedules and my deadline being brought forward…
1987 Alpine Gta Turbo Fleischmann Sold by Aguttes, £23,000 The V6 Alpine A310 was less than a success for the Renault-owned sports car builder when it was launched in 1976,…