Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO: The Car They Changed the Rules to Stop Most race cars lose because something breaks, or because the driver lifts, or because the thing in front is simply quicker. The 1989 Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO managed something rarer and far more telling. It lost a championship while being the … Read more
FIAT 131 ABARTH RALLY: The Saloon That Won Three World Championships How a family Fiat with a Ferrari-derived engine and a Bertone body swept the world’s rally stages Walk into a Fiat showroom in Italy in 1976 and ask for a 131 Mirafiori. The salesman would walk you toward a mid-sized family saloon with a … Read more
Lancia 037: The Last RWD King of Rally Lancia 037: The Last Rear-Wheel Drive Car to Win the Rally World Championship. Nobody Has Done It Since. Some records exist to inform. Others exist to humiliate. The Lancia 037‘s record belongs in the second category. World Rally Championship Constructors’ title in 1983. Last rear-wheel drive car … Read more
