Forest Stage Wall Art

Forest Stage — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 won consecutive WRC manufacturers' championships in 1985 and 1986 — the only French manufacturer to dominate Group B before the FIA banned the class. Its transverse mid-engine, four-wheel-drive layout represented a different engineering answer to Audi's longitudinal quattro concept, and the Rothmans-sponsored livery became as recognisable on forest stages as Martini stripes on Lancias. The Lancia Delta S4 represented the zenith of Italian Group B engineering — twin-charging, mid-engine packaging, and Martini livery combined into a silhouette that won the 1985 RAC Rally and the 1986 Olympus Rally before the FIA banned the class. Henri Toivonen's S4 remains the era's most haunting reference point: a car so fast that rulemakers concluded Group B had exceeded human and spectator safety limits. Audi's quattro programme proved permanent all-wheel drive could win World Rally Championship events from 1982 onward, forcing every rival manufacturer to abandon rear-drive orthodoxy. The Sport Quattro A2 — shorter, wider, and more aggressively winged than the original — became the era's defining German silhouette, with Walter Röhrl's 1987 Pikes Peak victory in the related S1 E2 serving as the turbo era's loudest exclamation point before Group B's 1986 curtain call.

Updated 14 Jun 2026