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| 1 | BMW ALPINA M3 B6 35s | 1.jpg | Take BMW s best handling car, the homologation special M3 and insert into it the Bavarian company's best engine, the 3.5 litre straight six. The combination should be mighty impressive, and that precisely is what that expert in BMW niche marketing, Burkar | TRUE | |
| 2 | BMW ALPINA B10 Bi TURBO | 2.jpg | Still the ultimate BMW, easily the fastest of all time including the latest M5. PaulFrere, Road Track Race Tester said in Sept 1991 "For me this is the car - the best 4 door in the world." The performance is absolutely shattering, the only other saloon ca | FALSE | |
| 3 | BMW ALPINA 850 B12 5.0 AND 5.7 | 3.jpg | 111 cars built in total (35 +
76) <br><br> The ultimate Alpina, the B12 5.7 probably comes closer to replicating the performance of BMW's one off M8 than anything else. <br><br> With engine displacement expanded to 5646cc and with the benefit of Alpina' |
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| 4 | BMW ALPINA B10 V8 4.0 + 4.6 (S) | 4.jpg | Top speed 175mph. 0-100 13.8
secs. Manufactured 1993-94 V8 4.0. 1994-96 V8 4.6 in Saloon and
Touring. <BR><BR> A superbly refined cruiser with increased performance in all aspects over BMW's M5 as highlighted in the car's asking price of over £65.000 + op |
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| 5 | BMW ALPINA B7 TURBO (INC 635 B7 TURBO AND TURBO B7S) | 5.jpg | Extract from BMW
Car<br> In the 1980s many people had money to burn, and it is thanks to them Alpina and Hartge found a ready market for their wild Fives. <BR><BR> Back in the 1980s economies were booming and there were plenty of well heeled individuals w |
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| 6 | BMW ALPINA E36 M3 B8 4.6 | 6.jpg | These are photographs of a
spectacular new Alpina. Based on the BMW 3-series, the Alpina B8 4.6 is
fitted with a 46 19cc V8 engine producing 248kw (.333bhp). The impressive
power-to-weight ratio of 169kW/tonne. <BR><BR> (226bhp/ton) compares to 148Kw/tonn |
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| 7 | BMW HARTGE M3 E30-H35-24 | 7.jpg | Based on the M3 and equipped
with the 24-valve 3.5 litre engine from the M6, the Hartge H35-24 is a real
street rod and from the moment you turn the key in the ignition you know that
some serious performance is about to be delivered. <BR><BR> The 93.4mm b |
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| 8 | BMW 3.0CSL BATMOBILE | 8.jpg | These cars differed from the standard 3.0 CSL's in that they were fitted with the larger 3.2 litre engines and were offered with spoiler package. Series 3 (serial number 2275430-2275539): Commonly referred to as the Batmobile, the Series 3 CSL took the ba | FALSE | |
| 9 | BMW Z1 | 9.jpg | We
can source you a new Z1 in any of the six manufactured colours. Also a top
quality used one. A deposit would be needed for such a transaction. We can
also find cars in optimum condition. <br><br> The first time I see the dark metallic green Z1, editor |
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| 10 | BMW E30 M3 INCLUDING EVOSPORT | 10.jpg | As a baseline for our group test we looked at BMW's fastest production 3-series, the M3 Sport Evolution, developed as homologation model for the 1990 race season. The road version of this Munich-built sports saloon is available in limited edition and in l | FALSE | |
| 11 | BMW E30 M3 CONVERTIBLE | 11.jpg | A real collector’s
item, the M3 Cabriolet only encompassed 786 cars manufactured up to the end
of 1991. Whilst 17184 E30 M3 Saloon's hit the streets, up to the end of 1990,
the cabriolet remained aloof and ultra rare. <br><br> In many ways it is one |
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| 13 | BMW M5 | 13.jpg | I don't think anybody really expected the M5 to win our Performance Car of the Year showdown in 1992. Busily polishing their various contenders, nine of our ten scribes smugly awaited their own personal triumphs, only to be gravely disappointed. I was the | FALSE | |
| 14 | MERCEDES 500 E | 14.jpg | The
only Mercedes V8, to be built in conjunction with Porsche, as with the Audi
RS. This has produced a superbly refined car for any situation with a
performance and chassis unrivalled by any other Mercedes. A true
legend. <br><br> Mercedes E500/500E (V8 |
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| 15 | MERCEDES BRABUS 500 E 6.0 | 15.jpg | In the pouring rain, with the
anti-slip device operating twice to stop us slipping sideways on our full
throttle charge to 100km/h, the Brabus Mercedes 500E 6.0 still tripped the
timing equipment at 6.5 sec. In the dry, it was a remarkable 5.4-sec! <br><b |
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| 16 | MERCEDES EVOLUTION I | 16.jpg | We
have included the forerunner to the ultimate Limited Edition Evo II simply
because of their rarity and also that they do come cheaper than the be-winged
and much more advanced Evo II. <br><br> The Evo I, nicknamed the Bouncing Baby Benz, was shown to |
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| 17 | MERCEDES EVOLUTION II | 17.jpg | Just six examples of the Mercedes Benz 190 Evolution II out of a total production run of 502 came to Britain. Launched at the March 1990 Geneva salon, the left hand drive only homologation special was an instant sell-out, even at its UK price of £55.200 w | FALSE | |
| 18 | MERCEDES 500SL/600 AMG | 18.jpg | Sport. Evocative word that, particularly when you're in the business of selling cars. Mercedes-Benz has known all about the benefits and drawbacks of motorsport for almost 50 years, and for a long time many Mercedes road cars were based on racers. The leg | FALSE | |
| 19 | PORSCHE 964 RS | 19.jpg | Extract from Performance Car
Magazine 1992<br> This is Porsches finest road creation since the 73RS.<br> First impressions are of a car that is genuinely hard to fault so when Porsche talks of the new RS as 'the rebirth of a legend', don't scoff. The firs |
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| 20 | PORSCHE 964 TURBO S | 20.jpg | Reporting from Germany,
Hans-Jiirgen Tiicherer drives 'the best car that Porsche has ever built', the
mighty 911 Turbo S <br><br> There are few things I'll get up at 4 o'clock on a Sunday morning for: a date with top model Cindy Crawford to see the sun ri |
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| 21 | PORSCHE 964 TURBO LIGHTWEIGHT | 21.jpg | At least 50 firm buyers will be needed to ensure this exciting lightweight 964 Turbo goes into production. Lowered suspension, bigger brakes and power output upped to 380 bhp, all in a shell whose weight has been pared to just 2822 lb, mean sensational pe | FALSE | |
| 22 | PORSCHE RUF | 22.jpg | Article 1 <br><br> Simply the finest Porsches on planet earth. If you have ever seen the video of their road tester, Stefan, and the 469bhp CTR 'Yellow Bird' at the Nurburg Ring, then this video alone shows why.<br><br> If you wish to own the Ruf 3.8 BTR, |
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| 24 | PORSCHE TECHART CT3 AND RS | blankpix.gif | CT3<br> TechArt Automobildesign's new supercharged CT3, based on the Porsche 993k was revealed to the public at the Frankfurt Motor Show. With more power than the factory's latest Turbo model the TechArt version is likely to redefine Porsche performance. |
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| 25 | PORSCHE ALMERAS | 25.jpg | Equating the Almeras brothers to the Kremer brothers in Germany would not be unfair to either party and their successes in motorsport have many parallels. They also both modify road-going Porsches and offer fine catalogues of engine, suspension and bodywo | FALSE | |
| 26 | PORSCHE KREMER 930 STREET RACING | 26.jpg | Right at the end of an industrial estate in north Cologne there is a Porsche dealer by the name of Kremer. If you were to walk into their showroom, you would find the expected half dozen or so new Porsches and point of sale material that any new car deale | FALSE | |
| 27 | PORSCHE - DP MOTORSPORT 935 KREMER TURBO | 27.jpg | One look at the DP 935 in the
flesh is enough to send shivers down your spine! <br><br> Even 16 years after the first 935 appeared they are still evocative. <br><br> DP Motorsport is probably Germany's most experienced German Tuning company, turning out v |
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| 28 | PORSCHE 993 RS | 28.jpg | Extract from Performance Car
Magazine<br> Stripped to its bare essentials, the 911RS offer a racecar feel for the road. <br><br> For £9.500 more than the basic 911 Carrera you get wind-up windows instead of push button electrics, smart webbing loop door p |
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| 29 | PORSCHE 959 | 29.jpg | At Frankfurt in 1983, 20 years after the 911's debut, Porsche showed the prototype of what became the most sophisticated supercar of them all. The Gruppe B 'design exercise' was intended for Group B racing and rallying which implied a homologation run of | FALSE | |
| 31 | PORSCHE 968 TURBO AND RS | 31.jpg | This is the most powerful four-cylinder road car Porsche has ever built. The figures you see on this page are not misprints. Peak power of 305bhp is impressive enough, but it's the torque figure - a mighty 3691b ft at just 3000rpm -that tells you this car | FALSE | |
| 32 | PORSCHE 993 Bi TURBO 4 | 32.jpg | Four-hundred-and-eight horsepower. 408. Four-Oh-Eight. That's two-thirds of a McLaren F1, comfortably more than a Ferrari F355. And it sounds like more than enough in a 911 (just can't get used to calling it Carrera), with the engine slung way out back, o | FALSE | |
| 33 | FERRARI TESTAROSSA | 33.jpg | So what if the Testarossa was a bit soft around the edges and lacked the visual elegance of the earlier and later Ferrari products? It was bloody quick, created crowds wherever you parked it and set people dreaming of how they would spend that major pools | FALSE | |
| 34 | FERRARI F40 | 34.jpg | There are plenty of reasons for envying Michael Schumacher, the villa by Lac Leman being just one of them. And, of course, the names of his employer, which brings out a respectful click of the tongue from every motor-sports fan in the world: Ferrari. His | FALSE | |
| 35 | FERRARI F355 | In any dream you have about supercars, I bet the Ferrari F355 features somewhere. It is one of the most evocative sports cars ever; it has the looks, the badge, the engine and the handling to seduce any red blooded car enthusiast. It was an object of desi | FALSE | ||
| 36 | FERRARI 348 GTS / GTB SPIDER | 36.jpg | An addenda to the 1989-93 348TB and TS, these limited edition Ferraris boasted and extra 20 bhp, with 355 brakes and suspension upgrades, making them altogether a totally superior car to the previous model. The GTS is the overall car we recommend, as the | FALSE | |
| 37 | FERRARI 512 TR | 37.jpg | The only car that inspired awe and annoyance in equal measure, the 512TR refuses to be pinned down by conventional critical criteria. I don't mind admitting the big Ferrari is a hero of mine. I can remember very mile I've travelled in Testarossas with alm | FALSE | |
| 38 | HONDA NSX TYPE 4 | 38.jpg | Looking fitter and driving with
more dynamism than ever on its new, larger slim-spoke alloy wheels and fatter
tyres, Japan's Ferrari fighter sparked and fizzed on the moors. One of the
Honda's greatest strengths is that it has no obvious weaknesses. <BR> |
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| 39 | ALFA ZAGATO SZ | blankpix.gif | Tragically, Alfa GB will almost
certainly not be importing the convertible version of Zagato's best-known
design. They blame the recession, though in more prosperous times just 43 of
the 1020 SZs built were sold in the UK. <BR><BR> The Zagato brothers loo |
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| 40 | ALFA LANCIA SPIDER ZAGATO RZ | 40.jpg | Limited edition 241 allegedly.
200 in Black, 29 in Red, 12 in Yellow. <BR><BR> The long awaited Spider version of the alfa Romeo's Zagato-bodied SZ will not be sold in the UK. The pretty hand built convertible won't be imported by Alfa GB because, it clai |
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| 41 | LOTUS CARLTON | 41.jpg | All the spy pictures and motorshow previews cannot prepare you for the Lotus Carlton road car. It retains all the visual elements from its Geneva launch although the 17" Ronal wheels are now a one-piece design. However, the car adopts massive stature once | FALSE | |
| 42 | OMEGA EVOLUTION 500 | 42.jpg | There were a few perplexed faces among the Lotus engineers visiting the 1991 Geneva Salon, the cause of their puzzlement being a Lotus Omega clone which appeared on Opel's stand. In an industry with few secrets, here was a surprise. Situated just in front | FALSE | |
| 43 | AUDI PORSCHE RS2 AVANT | 43.jpg | Two different interpretations of
Audi's icon 1995 Performance Car <BR><BR> There's one important statistic to remember about the RS2; it was quicker 0-30mph than a McLaren F1. A seemingly modest boast but remember the Audi cost about as much as the F1's t |
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| 44 | VW GOLF RALLYE | 44.jpg | From the outside the only real giveaways to the Golf Rallye are subtly widened arches and an unusual square lamped grill and of course the Rallye badge on the back. The real difference lies in the supercharged G60 engine producing 160bhp and 163lb of torq | FALSE | |
| 45 | LANCIA DELTA HF INTEGRALE EVOLUZIONE | 45.jpg | If's an institution. It's a
legend. It's a brilliantly successful rally champion and one of the very
quickest road cars point to point you can lay hands on. And now it's even
better than ever. <br><br> Just when we all thought development potential had be |
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| 46 | VW BEETLE | 46.jpg | We were driving through a small French town at around midday one Sunday. Families, dressed in their best, were walking to the local restaurant for the traditional Sunday lunch, but when they caught sight of the Beetle, all dignity was swept away and they | FALSE | |
| 47 | PORSCHE GEMBALLA 911s | Gemballa.jpg | Think Gemballa and you think Porsche 911, for Uwe Gemballa founded his reputation almost a decade ago with the wild looking Avalanche, a head turning creation that evoked either awe or angst among Porsche addicts. Now, for the Nineties, the German stylis | FALSE | |
| 50 | PORSCHE 968 CLUBSPORT | 49.jpg | Never a great fan of water-cooled, normally-aspirated Porsches, Ian Kuab admits to a change of heart after sampling the 968 Club Sport. I'll make no bones of the fact that I am a dyed-in-the-wool 911 fanatic. I, like many other 911 enthusiasts, the seduc | FALSE | |
| 51 | PORSCHE 993 RS/R | 51.jpg | Featherweight 911s withpowerful engines don't always make for the happiest marriage on the road, says Russ Tyler, but as a trackday car for selective street use Jez Gilman's RS/R is just about unbeatable this side of a new GT3. Photography by Peter Robain | FALSE | |
| 52 | PORSCHE GT3 996 | 52.jpg | ‘The GT3 is a good
toy, yes?’ Michael Roock asks me with a grin as I hurl his 911
GT3-based RSC 380 GT demonstrator around a banked and worryingly wet autobahn
slip-road. <br><br> Too right it is. Lets face it, the ordinary 911 Carrera is a wo |
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| 53 | BMW M3 GT | 53.jpg | Homologation. What a lovely word. It’s so positive, meaning as it does “acknowledgement”. It also, according to my dictionary, implies “approval” - and this is the essential bit - of “a car…for use in a particular | FALSE | |
| 54 | PORSCHE CARRERA 924 & 944 | 54.jpg | While most 924s and 944s have
unjustly been ignored, two models refused to remain in anonymity. The 924
Carrera GT and 944 S2 took the models they were based on, shook them by the
scruff of the neck and tuned them into classics; classic Porsches even. <b |
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| 55 | PORSCHE 911 GT3 | 55.jpg | The 1999 Geneva Motorshow marked the launch of the latest evolution of the Porsche 911. The new GT3, described by Porsche as the spiritual successor to the 911 RS, has been developed directly from technology employed on the GT1 and GT2 racers. Delivering | FALSE | |
| 56 | PORSCHE 911 RS v 964 RS | 56.jpg | In our second look at the latest
RS, Ian Kuah takes to the track to compare old with new and draws some
interesting conclusions. <br><br> Gravity is an immutable law of nature, as Newton found out while lying under an apple tree. Gravity is what gives ev |
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| 57 | PORSCHE 993 GT2 | 57.jpg | <I>Ian Kuab drives the
latest variation on the 911 theme, the road-going version of the mighty
homologation GT2.</I> <br><br> Two issues ago I raved about the new 911 Turbo, because it is arguably the most important sub-£l0,000 sports car ever made. In s |
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| 58 | PORSCHE TECHART 964 RS | 58.jpg | <I>Ian Kuah reports from
Germany on a trio of conversions from TechArt Automobildesign wide-bodied
Carrera 2, 968 Cabriolet and Carrera
RS</I> <br><br> Here in the UK, the vast majority of aftermarket companies that deal with Porsches engage in servicing |
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| 60 | PORSCHE 944 | blankpix.gif | By the end of the 1970's, Porsche's evergreen 911 was still sitting pretty at the top of the supercar heap, the new 928 was now offering Porsche performance in a rather more sybaritic pack-age, and for those who wanted a first taste of the Porsche experie | FALSE | |
| 61 | PORSCHE CARRERA CS | Porsche Carrera CS.jpg | <B>Imagine, for a moment,
that you know nothing about this car.
You have been led to it blindfold, helped into its driver's seat,
strapped in, given the keys and, blindfold removed, told to drive it and
offer your carefully considered opinion.</B> <BR><B |
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| 62 | MERCEDES 500E | Merc E500.jpg | <B>DEVIL
IN DISGUISE</B><BR> <B>For discreet speed, there's little to beat the mighty 500E and later E500 models. Prices are now reaching affordable levels and, if you find a good one, you could have the performance bargain of a lifetime.</B><BR> <BR> At |
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| 63 | PORSCHE 993 GT3 RS | spacer.gif | Sometimes in life it's better just to sit back and watch for a while. On any other occasion and with any other car, a 10-lap blast would be the highlight of he day, but with the new £84,230 Porsche 911 GT3 RS - the Porsche I've been itching to drive since | FALSE |