Record-breaking rally cars: Audi Quattro becomes world s most expensive rally car sold at auction for £1.8million - as a Peugeot 205 T16 and Renault 5 Turbo also achieve record fees
The 1988 Audi Sport Quattro S1 rally icon sold for €2,016,600 (£1,771,434) at a Paris auction of Friday night
It was not only the highest figure paid for an Audi Quattro but the biggest fee ever for any rally car at auction
It was one of seven legendary Group B rally cars from a French museum offered to the highest bidder
A race winning 1985 Peugeot 205 Turbo T16 and Renault 5 Maxi Turbo from the same year also sold for record amounts for their respective model types
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Rare Group B rally car collection headed for auction in Paris
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Seven Anything-Goes Group B Rally Legends Are Up for Grabs in Paris By Kristin V. Shaw, The Drive © Provided by The Drive
Group B cars were banned swiftly and pitilessly in 1986 following the crash of Finnish racer Henri Toivonen and his American co-driver Sergio Cresto at Tour de Corse on the French island of Corsica. Toivonen s crash wasn t the first, but it was the last of Group B rallying, which many call the golden age of rally racing. Group B cars were exciting, immensely powerful vehicles that required incredible handling skills, and two racing enthusiasts gathered a collection of seven of the best of them soon after the ban for exhibition. After more than three decades on display, on February 5 this rare Group B museum-quality collection will be auctioned off for large sums of money by Artcurial Motorcars in Paris. While annual auction and quirky auto show Rétromobile is postponed for 2021, this one-off auction also includes 35 other lots like a gorg