We would like to start with wishing you, our loyal reader, all the best for the New Year. In 2016, we will continue to cover the world's greatest events and highlight many great new, classic and competition cars. Throughout the past year, we have written many new features and some were left on the shelf awaiting to be published. Today we have taken some of these articles off our virtual shelves for your enjoyment.
First up is one of the great American sports racers; the Devin SS. Built using a chassis constructed in Northern Ireland, and an American fibreglass body and small-block engine, it put many more exotic machines to shame during the late 1950s. Not many were built in period, and we have today featured three examples, while our 59-shot gallery also includes shots of examples of which we have yet to figure out the individual histories. Devin was among the manufacturers that carried on where Cunningham had left off. The Florida-based manufacturer successfully raced sports cars on both sides of the Atlantic, while also building a small batch of road cars for homologation purposes. The featured C-3 Competition Coupe is one of the earliest of these.
At last year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, we were treated to this one-off Delahaye 135 MS Pourtout Coupe Aerodynamique. Built for the 1946 Paris Auto Salon, it was a tribute to the Pourtout's legendary designer Georges Paulin, who was killed fighting for the resistance during the War.
Among the many fledgling teams to venture into F1 during the 1970s, Mo Nunn's Ensign was particularly persistent. The team entered cars for 99 races but ultimately failed to score a victory. Today we have added the N175, N177, N179 and N180, which are all powered by the Cosworth DFV V8 and are today regularly raced in historic events.
Due to be launched at the upcoming Performance Car show is the 350bhp Zenos E10 R. Powered by a turbocharged, 2.3-litre engine, the bare-bones roadsters tips the scales at just 700 kg. As a result, it can accelerate to 60 mph in around 3 seconds.

Traditionally, the American motorsport authorities have been relatively protective of domestic manufacturers. This was not so much to help them but also to keep the costs down for the competitors. During the 1970s, however, there was virtually no stopping Porsche until the German manufacturer tried to homologate the all-new turbo-engined 934 for the 1976 season. IMSA simply said no to the car fearing it would dominate to an even larger extent as the naturally aspirated cars, requiring all competitors to step up and buy the new Porsche. Realising that the 934 was the way forward, IMSA did allow the 934.5 to be raced during the 1977 season. As the name suggests, it was part 934 and part 935, as it featured a much larger rear wing than before. Eventually Porsche only built ten examples, as the company's customers quickly switched to full 935s. Many of these ten were later also upgraded to 935 specification to prolong their careers. Today, it is a very rare sight but over the years we did manage to capture three genuine examples, which are pictured in this 78-shot gallery.
Another fantastic German racer developed specifically for the American racing scene is the Audi 200 Quattro Trans-Am. Loosely based on the road-going 200 Quattro, this all-conquering machine featured a turbocharged five-cylinder engine and the all-wheel drive system made famous by the Audi rally cars. Run by Bob Tullius' Group 44 team, the cars were raced with great verve by Hurley Haywood, Hans-Joachum Stuck and Walter Rohrl. Even during the 1988 season, the Audis were dialled down with higher minimum weights and tighter restrictors but even in this guise, the 200 Quattro won Trans-Am races. The SCCA eventually decided to ban all-wheel drive altogether for 1988, which meant the 200 Quattro only raced in North America for a single season. Five were built and two survivors are pictured in great detail in this 41-shot gallery.

One of the most evocative of all Group C cars was undoubtedly the Lancia LC2. Introduced in 1983, it was the only serious competition for the Porsche 956. Very much a collaborative effort, the LC2 featured a Dallara designed chassis and an Abarth-tuned, Ferrari-based twin-turbo V8. Thanks to its efficient aerodynamics and hugely powerful engine, the Martini-liveried Lancia often matched the Porsches on raw pace but reliability issues often let the Italian thoroughbred down. The 956 could also rely on the strength of numbers with many privateers running the German cars, while the LC2s were only raced by the factory team. Of the nine examples built, we now feature six different chassis, many of which are still raced in historic events. In fact three are even pictured in our 113-shot gallery running in the rain.
While Porsche and Lancia fought for overall honours, the 'junior' Group C2 field was far more diverse. Dominating the 1985 season was the Cosworth-engined Tiga GC85 run by Spice Engineering and driven by Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm. A wholly conventional car, the GC85 was the most recent evolution of the original Tiga Group C car. In 1985, the featured example was driven to a class win at Le Mans and also won the C2 World Championship. Now owned by Brunn Racing, it has recently been comprehensively restored and was first raced at Paul Ricard earlier this year. Fittingly, it was driven to a class victory.

Although 2015 is not quite over yet, the upcoming auctions in late January and early February are already grabbing our imagination. The one machine consigned that we would really like to see wrapped under our Christmas tree is the Ferrari 335 S Scaglietti Spyder. One of four built in 1957, it is one of the very first Ferraris powered by a twin-cam V12 engine. The mighty four-litre engine is good for close to 400 bhp and the potent package is tightly wrapped in a beautiful Scaglietti body. The car on offer, chassis 0674, placed second overall in the 1957 Mille Miglia. Since 1969, it was part of the late Pierre Bardinon's magnificent Mas du Clos collection. It has been consigned by his estate to the Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile sale. The fantastic fantastic Ferrari has a startling pre-sale estimate of Euro 28-32 million.
Packing a Mw of power, the Koenigsegg One:1 was touted as the very first Megacar when it was introduced at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. It also has a 1 hp / kg power to weight ratio, which explains the name. The mighty Koenigsegg combines the neck-snapping power with sophisticated active aerodynamics and suspension, and diligent weight saving. As a result, the One:1 is adept through corners as it is in a straight line. When the car was launched, Koenigsegg stated that, in addition to the prototype, six examples would be built for customers. These were almost immediately sold out, and eventually Koenigsegg decided to let the prototype go as well. This example is now available again, with a reported asking price of $6 million. It is featured alongside two of the other examples in our expanded, 80-shot gallery.

The McLaren Formula 1 team have had a dreadful season as it struggled to get new engine supplier Honda's V6 up to speed. That was in stark contrast with the previous time the Japanese and British manufacturer's teamed up; between 1988 and 1991, they absolutely dominated the World Championship. To mark these achievements, McLaren wheeled out two of the championship winning, Honda engined F1 cars out for this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. The most recent of these was the 1991 vintage McLaren MP4/6 Honda. Powered by a new V12 engine, it propelled Ayrton Senna to his third championship in four years time. At Goodwood, the MP4/6 was driven up the hill by several of McLaren's works drivers including Jenson Button.
For the 1989 season, the all-conquering twin turbo V6 was replaced by a new naturally aspirated V10, which powered the McLaren MP4/5. The Honda-engined machine was used to great effect by Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna but ultimately, it was the Frenchman who became clinched the title. The MP4/5 Honda was driven at Goodwood by McLaren's talented youngster Nyck de Vries.
Of an altogether earlier vintage was the McLaren M10A Chevrolet, which was raced at this year's Monterey Motorsports Reunion. McLaren's first F5000 car, it was the car of choice during the 1969 season. The featured example was recently restored and boasts McLaren's legendary papaya orange livery.
At the Goodwood Revival, Bruce McLaren's career was celebrated with a fabulous demonstration of the cars he raced until his untimely death in 1970. Among the was the very first M2B Ford completed. The type was McLaren's first F1 car and it scored several points scoring finishes in 1966. The featured example was recently restored by Hall & Hall, and is today part of a fantastic American McLaren collection.
This weekend, two French enthusiasts announced the birth of a new, mid-engined sports car. Dubbed the Jannarelly Design-1, it is powered by a V6 engine that is mounted transversely ahead of the rear axle. Due to enter production in Dubai next summer, the first 20 examples will be offered for $55,000 a piece.