Every model, one definitive hub.
Each Car Collector International buyer's guide is the central reference for that specific vehicle. Written for collectors, edited for owners, and updated as the cars themselves move through the market.
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT, GTV & GTV6
Giugiaro's transaxle coupé — Giuseppe Busso's V6 in the GTV6 is the halo variant.
Alfa Romeo SZ (ES-30)
Centro Stile and Zagato — the 'Il Mostro' Alfa Romeo, a fixed-production wedge-bodied 3.0 V6 coupe.
Alpina
Alpina B7 Turbo Coupé (E24)
Alpina's turbocharged 6-Series — 153 pre-facelift B7 Turbo Coupés, then the facelifted B7 Turbo Coupé/1 (130 built, of which 20 were Katalysator) — the fastest 6-Series of its era and the connoisseur's alternative to the M635CSi.
Alpina B6 (E30)
The six-cylinder M3 BMW never built.
Alpina B10 Bi-Turbo
The fastest production sedan in the world at its 1989 Geneva launch — Alpina's twin-turbo E34, 507 units built at Buchloe on the base BMW 535i chassis.
Aston Martin
Aston Martin V8 (Saloon, Volante & Vantage)
Aston Martin's Newport Pagnell grand tourer for nearly two decades — standard Saloon, open Volante and fire-breathing Vantage, all sharing Tadek Marek's 5.3-litre quad-cam V8.
Aston Martin Lagonda
William Towns' folded-paper wedge saloon — the first production car with computer management and a digital instrument panel, and one of the most expensive saloons in the world.
Aston Martin V8 Zagato
Newport Pagnell and Zagato Milano's late-1980s coachbuilt revival of the DB4 GT Zagato partnership — 52 Weber-carburettor Vantage coupés and 37 Volantes, all hand-built to order.
Aston Martin Virage
The last of the Newport Pagnell hand-built Aston Martins — Virage, V8 Coupé and twin-supercharged Vantage across a single family, built for a decade to individual customer order.
BMW
BMW 2002 tii & Turbo
The fuel-injected tii and the turbocharged Turbo — the sporting peak of BMW's 02 Series.
BMW 3.0 CS / CSi (E9)
Karmann-bodied pillarless E9 coupé — the road-going CS/CSi that carried BMW's coupé line to the 6 Series.
BMW 3.0 CSL
BMW's homologation Batmobile — the 1970s touring-car icon that founded the M division.
BMW M1
BMW's only mid-engined production car — Giugiaro lines, M88 straight-six, 453 built.
BMW M635CSi (E24)
M Division's first 6 Series — the M88-engined coupe that bridged the M1 and the modern M cars.
BMW M5 (E28)
The original M5 — M1-derived 3.5-litre straight-six hand-built into a discreet executive saloon.
BMW M3 (E30)
The homologation BMW M car whose touring-car pedigree made it a blue-chip modern classic.
BMW M5 (E34)
The last hand-built, straight-six M5 — and the source of BMW M's first estate.
BMW 8 Series (E31)
BMW's V8 and V12 pop-up-headlamp grand tourer of the 1990s — with a Motorsport-developed range-topper.
BMW Z1
BMW Technik's drop-door roadster — composite skin, multi-link rear, M20 inline-six.
Ferrari
Ferrari 308 GT4 (Dino)
The first and only production Ferrari bodied by Bertone — and the first production Ferrari with a mid-mounted V8.
Ferrari 308
Pininfarina's mid-engined V8 Ferrari that took Maranello mainstream — glass-fibre pioneers, gated manuals and the shape of a decade.
Ferrari 400
Maranello's late-1970s / early-1980s Pininfarina 2+2 flagship — 4.8-litre Colombo V12, Ferrari's first factory automatic, and the enthusiast-market entry point into a V12 Ferrari.
Ferrari 512 BB
Ferrari's first 12-cylinder mid-engined road car — a flat-12 'Berlinetta Boxer' from Pininfarina.
Ferrari Mondial
Ferrari's mid-engined 2+2 by Pininfarina — the only 4-seat convertible Ferrari of its era and, in Mondial t Cabriolet manual form, one of the most quietly re-rated 1980s–90s Ferraris.
Ferrari 288 GTO
Ferrari's first modern supercar — the Group B homologation 308-shaped twin-turbo that opened the F40/F50/Enzo lineage.
Ferrari Testarossa
Pininfarina's flat-twelve poster car — the wide-body 1980s Ferrari that defined the decade.
Ferrari 328
The evolved 308 — bigger 3.2 V8, body-coloured bumpers and the last of the analogue mid-engined Pininfarina Ferraris.
Ferrari F40
The raw twin-turbo Ferrari supercar that became the benchmark poster-car collectible.
Ferrari 348
The last Enzo-era junior V8 Ferrari, still analogue and increasingly reassessed.
Ford
Ford Escort RS2000 (Mk1 & Mk2)
AVO-built Mk1 and droopsnoot Mk2 — Ford's Pinto-powered fast Escort.
Ford Mustang (Mustang II)
The downsized, Pinto-based Mustang of the malaise era — modest performance, strong sales, and a small collector niche in the Cobra II and 1978 King Cobra.
Ford Mustang (Fox Body)
The long-running Fox-platform Mustang — home of the 5.0 LX, the SVO turbo four, and the 1993 SVT Cobra and Cobra R.
Ford RS200
Group B homologation Ford — mid-engined, four-wheel-drive, composite-bodied, around 250 bhp in road trim.
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Ford's whale-tail Group A homologation hatch — turbocharged Cosworth YB power, 5,545 three-door Cosworths plus 500 RS500s, and the foundation of fast-Ford collecting.
Lamborghini
Lamborghini Jarama
Gandini's angular Islero replacement on a shortened Espada platform — the last front-engined V12 Lamborghini road car.
Lamborghini Urraco
Gandini's mid-engined V8 Lamborghini 2+2 — the Sant'Agata answer to the Dino, and the founding chassis of the Silhouette / Jalpa V8 line.
Lamborghini Countach
The wedge-shaped Lamborghini icon that defined the supercar as theatre.
Lamborghini Jalpa
Sant'Agata's transverse-V8 targa — the Silhouette's US-legal successor and the last of the small Lamborghinis before the Chrysler era.
Lamborghini LM002
The 'Rambo Lambo' — a Countach-engined luxury off-roader with genuine desert capability, years before the luxury-SUV era.
Lancia
Lancia Stratos HF
Bertone's three-time WRC champion — the first car designed from a blank sheet to win the World Rally Championship.
Lancia Rally 037 Stradale
Abarth-built homologation for Lancia's Group B rally programme and the last rear-wheel-drive car to win the World Rally Championship — a Pininfarina-bodied, Volumex-supercharged mid-engined coupé produced in tiny numbers.
Lancia Delta Integrale
The homologation hot hatch that won six consecutive World Rally Championships and now anchors the analogue performance market.
Maserati
Maserati Bora
Maserati's first mid-engined road car and first monocoque — Giugiaro at Italdesign, Geneva 1971.
Maserati Merak
The under-the-radar mid-engine Maserati — Giugiaro-designed, Citroën-derived V6, and the attainable Ferrari 308 alternative.
Maserati Khamsin
The Ghibli's true successor — Bertone by Gandini, developed under Citroën ownership for traditionalists who wanted a front-engined V8 GT.
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz R107 SL (350/450/560)
Eighteen years of definitive Mercedes grand tourer — from early 350 SL through V8 360 / 380 / 420 / 450 / 500 / 560 derivatives.
Mercedes-Benz SL (R129)
The fourth-generation Mercedes-Benz SL, produced from 1989 to 2001 in six-cylinder, V8, V12 and AMG forms — one of the most rigid, most over-engineered convertibles Mercedes-Benz has ever built, and the platform for the hand-built AMG V12 catalogue cars culminating in the SL 73 AMG.
Nissan
Plymouth
Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda
426 Hemi-powered E-body Barracuda — the most valuable American muscle car at auction and an outright blue-chip.
Plymouth Superbird
Chrysler's 1970 NASCAR aero-warrior homologation — a Road Runner fitted from the factory with an extended nose cone and a towering rear wing, built for a single model year to bring Richard Petty back to Plymouth and legislated off the superspeedways after one season.
Porsche
Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7
The original lightweight RS — the homologation 911 that gave every later Porsche RS its name.
Porsche 911 (G-Series)
Porsche's impact-bumper 911 — five naturally-aspirated sub-generations (911 / Carrera 2.7 MFI / Carrera 3.0 / 911 SC / Carrera 3.2) alongside the 930 Turbo, 1974–1989.
Porsche 924
Porsche's first water-cooled, front-engined production car — the platform that began the transaxle generation and led directly to the 944 and 968.
Porsche 928
Porsche's front-engined V8 grand tourer — conceived as a 911 replacement and now the analogue transaxle GT the market took thirty years to re-rate.
Porsche 911 Turbo Flachbau (930)
The Porsche factory's flat-nose 935-inspired 911 Turbo — built in tiny numbers by the Sonderwunsch programme.
Porsche 944
Porsche's front-engined, transaxle four-cylinder coupe — the family that legitimised the front-engined Porsche idea.
Porsche 959
Porsche's Group B homologation supercar — twin-turbo flat-six, electronically controlled AWD, 197 mph in 1986.
Porsche 911 (964)
The modernised air-cooled 911 that now anchors serious Porsche collections.
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