immortalised on screen in films such as Le Mans ’66. The sight of elite racing cars tearing around the French circuit, their headlights glowing brightly in the pitch black of night, is one of ...

Groups 5 and 6 respectively were for wild-looking silhouette versions of production cars (think the 911-based Porsche 935) and open-roof prototypes (such as the Porsche 936, which won Le Mans ...

A soul, perhaps. The Mazda 787B is one of those cars. The car that won the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours as an unfancied underdog, the first Japanese car to do so and, as yet, the only rotary-engined winner.