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What price do we put on the greatest interpretation of the foundational sports sedan, every part perfected and precisely balanced? With this question, we begin our series on modern restomods.

Brace yourself for perhaps the most gorgeous, wallet-troubling face off-yet, in Episode 5 of Llandow Laps.

This time, Chris will be setting lap times in restomod creations from two of the UK’s most respected specialists: Tuthill’s 993-generation 911-based SCRS; and the Alfaholics GTA-R.

As you might expect with a combined cost of nearly £1 million, both cars have been extensively re-engineered, with the Tuthill 911 SCRS’ 3.8-litre flat-six producing 324 PS, and the featherweight, carbon fibre-bodied GTA-R pumping out 243 PS courtesy of its 2.1-litre twin-cam inline-four.

After reviewing the Alfaholics Giulia Super R 270, Henry Catchpole thinks this might just be the one car to rule them all. Why? Well it has both verve and versatility. It is a restomod, so you have all the glorious interactivity and tactility typical in such a creation – think Singer, Eagle, Kimera and a whole host of others, including Alfaholics’ own GTA-Rs. But then add more than a dash of practicality. With back seats and a decent boot, this is suddenly a car that will happily tackle a whole host of tasks not normally associated with restomods.

Delta Force Autodelta is to Alfa what M is to BMW. In the ’60s, its fast Giulia GTAs won races and stole hearts. Can the wild new Giulia GTAm do the same?

Watch our GTA-R 290 go head to head with the new Ferrari Roma as Chris Harris takes on Paddy McGuinness in the latest Top Gear challenge.

The team at Alfaholics have been turning Alfa Romeo GTAs into even bigger masterpieces of automotive design and engineering for many years now.

The iconic GTA is beloved by pretty much anyone who has set eyes on one and is a regular crowd favourite racing at the Goodwood Revival.

These divine classics might be beyond the reach of mere mortals, but they all contain lessons modern supercars can learn from Restogods.

A blast from the past, rebuilt even better.

A Bertone in full carbon fibre!

A specially build Junior Zagato. Alfaholics was commissioned with the build. We take this opportunity to talk about Alfaholics, Gordon Murray and the special Zagato-R.

It’s two hours since I slid into the Alfaholics GTA-R for the first time. I’m on the M5, the window is lowered, and the spartan little cabin is swimming in such a sea of induction noise that I can’t hear myself think. But with every downchange, throttle blip and ripe burst of acceleration, the truth reveals itself: this is the most entertaining car I’ve driven since two days last summer in a McLaren F1.

Exciting stuff from Autocar today as we try some modernised classics – restomods, if you like. This isn’t a conventional group test, because the three cars we’ve assembled all do very different things.

The early days of the British Saloon Car Championship inspired some delightfully spicy road-going versions.

This Alfa GTA took its driver to victory in the 1966 Dutch Touring Car Championship then disappeared into obscurity. Glen Waddington uncovers its past – and its reincarnation.

1200bhp GT-R, Alfaholics GTA, Cayman GT4 and more. We bring together the world’s wildest drives to answer one question: what’s the most fun you can have on track?

Charles Morgan looks at the Alfaholics GTA-R 270, a re-imagining of the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint.

Can a 1960s Alfa GTA really justify a Ferrari-money price tag? When it’s an Alfaholics GTA-R 270, it can!

Restoring a racing car is hard to do in an authentic but competitive manner – but add in a short deadline, and the pressure is ramped even higher.

When you unearth a championship-winning racing car with fabulous history, how do you put it back on track without harming originality?

The Giulia might be 50 years old but with clever modifications this fine sporting Alfa Romeo can still punch hard against the very best of today’s sports cars.