Brick Tease

The British Touring Car Championship has a lot to answer for. There’s a generation of old-school petrolheads out there who are desperate to live out their dreams of BTCC glory by buying a Sierra RS Cosworth or E30 M3 in order to relive the halcyon days of the 1980s. For us, the really exciting time was the Supertouring era of the 1990s.

Manufacturers’ works teams were pouring astonishing budgets into developing remarkable race cars, things that looked like stickered-up examples of road-going saloons dumped on huge multi-spoke wheels. The technology inside these racers was unprecedented and scary, forever altering the perceptions of cars like the Ford Mondeo, Renault Laguna, Peugeot 406 and Vauxhall Vectra in the