1980s Supercar

Music in the 1980s

The 1980s was the decade of excess, turbocharging, and the most terrifying rally cars ever built. Group B rallying produced monsters like the Audi Quattro S1, Peugeot 205 T16, and Lancia Delta S4 — cars so fast they were eventually banned after a series of fatal accidents. On the road, the supercar as we know it was born: the Ferrari F40, Porsche 959, and Lamborghini Countach became poster-car icons for an entire generation. Japanese manufacturers were engineering precision machines like the Toyota AE86 and Nissan Skyline that would become the foundation of an entire tuning culture. Video footage from the 80s is plentiful and often spectacular, capturing an era when automotive ambition had almost no limits.