Mercedes-AMG CLK GTR

by Jack Shepherdson - 20th January 201730th January 2017

With the birth of the FIA’s GT Championship in 1997, Mercedes-Benz instructed AMG to create something very special. AMG were tasked to create a racing car which could also be converted to road use in the design vein of the CLK. The difficult brief resulted in a car which utterly

MG Metro 6R4 Clubman

by Jack Shepherdson - 20th January 201716th November 2017

Throughout the Group B period many automakers managed to push the divide between their rally bred monsters and the street cars they were allegedly based on, and no car pushed further than the MG Metro 6R4. The clear difference between the mental 6R4 and the pedestrian MG Metro it was

Ferrari 288 GTO

by Jack Shepherdson - 20th January 201730th January 2017

The successor to Ferrari’s near perfect 250 GTO, the 288 GTO has quite a tortured history. Designed to race in Group B, the FIA disbanded the race series after the crash of a Lancia Delta S4 in 1986, resulting in the 288 GTO never competing on the rally scene. Ferrari

Peugeot 205 Turbo 16

by Jack Shepherdson - 20th January 201730th January 2017

When looking at the absolutely insane Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 raced at Pikes Peak, it’s difficult to imagine such a raw, race focused machine could have a road going sibling. Built to race in the final years of Group B, it managed great success in its short two years, winning

Audi Sport Quattro

by Jack Shepherdson - 19th January 201716th November 2017

After completely revolutionising the rally scene in the early 80’s with its pioneering full time four-wheel-drive system, the first of its kind used in rallying, Audi devised an evolution of the A1 and A2 Quattro’s, the 500hp, 1000kg Sport Quattro S1 built solely to dominate Group B. Although failing to

Lancia Delta S4 Stradale

by Jack Shepherdson - 19th January 201730th January 2017

Throughout the Group B period, many manufacturers attempted to push their machinery as far as allowed, towing the line of the FIA regulations, and no car was pushed further than the famous Lancia Delta S4; so far it inadvertently brought Group B to an end. Fitted with a 1.8-litre inline-4,

BMW M1

by Jack Shepherdson - 19th January 201730th January 2017

Through the years many supercars have been forgotten; For many years the Jaguar XJ220 lived in the shadows of the faster McLaren F1. But no supercar was overlooked to the extent of the BMW M1. A design based off the 1972 BMW Turbo concept, BMW approached Lamborghini to pen, engineer

Ford GT40 MK I

by Jack Shepherdson - 18th January 20173rd February 2017

Whilst the Ford GT40 is today remembered as one of the greatest racing cars ever built, its greatest achievement being four consecutive Le Mans victories, the same cannot be said for the MK I’s reputation in the US in 1966. Having built 31 road going GT40 MK I’s to homologate

Ferrari F50

by Jack Shepherdson - 18th January 201730th January 2017

An oddity in the world of homologation cars, the Ferrari F50 was not built to appease the FIA’s road car quota; quite simply, it was done in reverse. Originally built as a road car, Ferrari envisaged the potential of a racing variant of the F50 competing in the BPR Global

Porsche 959

by Jack Shepherdson - 18th January 201730th January 2017

When looking at the low, sleek lines of the Porsche 959, it’s hard to believe it was spawned from a Group B rally car. Porsche saw Group B as the perfect place to test production car technology, a plan which lead to the development of Porsche’s revolutionary four-wheel-drive system, later