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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)
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The ultimate Alpina, the B12 5.7 probably comes closer to replicating the performance of BMW's one off M8 than anything else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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&#8217;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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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Even 16 years after the first 935 appeared they are still evocative.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 &#8216;The GT3 is a good toy, yes?&#8217; 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.
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53 BMW  M3 GT 53.jpg Homologation. What a lovely word. It&#8217;s so positive, meaning as it does &#8220;acknowledgement&#8221;. It also, according to my dictionary, implies &#8220;approval&#8221; - and this is the essential bit - of &#8220;a car&#8230;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.
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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.
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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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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