The Midas Touch
The Gold Collection is a single-owner collection of fabulous sports cars, but with the Midas touch, as each car is presented in various shades of original manufacturer specification gold paint. Led by a 1974 Ferrari 365 GT4 BB…
Disco Fever
Unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show and launched in very limited production the year after, the Disco Volante is arguably one of the most accomplished designs by Carrozzeria Touring in recent decades…
Peugeot's Group B Titan
The 205 Turbo 16 was one of France's greatest industrial and technological successes, like Concorde and the TGV. It soon dominated the world championship and won two titles, in 1985 and 1986, despite strong…
BMW's Art Cars
The BMW Art Car Project was introduced by the French racing driver and auctioneer Hervé Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create a canvas on a racing car. In 1975, Poulain commissioned American artist…
Return of the Renault 5
The soul of the Renault brand is firmly in its roots, and Gilles Vidal's design team were inspired by the iconic cult model from Renault’s past, the R5. The Renault 5 prototype looks to reconnect with this past…
Maximum Attack
The Renault 5 Turbo came about thanks to Jean Terramorsi, the deputy head of product management for Renault responsible for limited-production models. In 1977, he conceived a sporting version of the…
911 Dreaming
In a pristine barn conversion with panoramic views over rural Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, Chris Labrooy struggles momentarily to sum up how he makes a living. “It’s really difficult to describe what I do,” says the…
Audi's homage the legendary IMSA GTO
Designed and developed by a group of apprentices at Audi's Neckarsulm factory, this radically styled RS6 GTO concept is based on the firm’s 591bhp V8-powered performance estate and has been created as a…
Porsche's outrageous Le Mans racer
Derived from the potent Porsche 911 Type 930 Turbo, the Porsche 935 competition car enjoyed a long and immensely fruitful racing career in the hands of Porsche’s Works drivers and privateers worldwide…
Singer's Safari
At the request of a long-term client, Singer has looked to a golden era of Porsche rallying from the 1980s, and to their heroes which include the 911 SC/RS and the 959, to reimagine his pair of air-cooled 911s as…
The American all-star
This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette was built into a Greenwood widebody race car in the 1970s, and is believed to have been campaigned by Rick Mancuso and Burt Greenwood as a Greenwood team car during 1975…
Red-blooded racer
Introduced in April 1954, the D-Type was successful in competition almost immediately, with victory at the 1954 Sebring 12 Hours and strong second-place finish at 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Jaguar works team…
Raging Bulls
Avant-garde and iconoclastic; Lamborghini is a brand born out of opposition. But from this alternate perspective came the freedom for reinvention; Lamborghini’s focus on road-going cars allowed the brand…
The first new Bentley Blower for 90 years
After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery of Car Zero – the prototype car for the Blower Continuation Series. This highly exclusive run…
Isdera’s unicorn
The story behind Isdera’s Commendatore originates in 1971, when a young Eberhard Schulz drove his homemade sportscar, the Erator GTE, to Porsche and Mercedes-Benz and persuaded them to give him…
Porsche x PUMA
Since its debut, the 911 Turbo has been revered as much for its design as for its performance and sound. Now, after nearly five decades and eight generations, Porsche have honoured the sports car in an entirely…
Audi's 'Brutal Beast'
Untamed, unrestricted and unhinged. The ‘Group B’ rally car of the 1980’s defined a motorsport era unlike any other. So raw, so compelling and so dangerous, it was ultimately banned. At the lawless apex of design…
Tour Auto 2020
After a lengthy delay due to the global pandemic, the 29th edition of the Tour Auto finally got under way from the Grand Palais in Paris at the end of August. Over the course of a week the participants covered…