The show must go on. This well-known phrase from show business lends itself perfectly to the WRC 2020 World Rally Championship. In March, just when the Covid-19 virus began spreading rapidly throughout Europe, the WRC was in Mexico, prematurely completing round three of the season. Like all professional sport, rallying came to an immediate ......

It might have been shortened…

...but nothing stops the World Rally Championship delivering the very best in rallying entertainment. Even before COVID-19 got in the mix, 2020 was going to be an exciting and unpredictable year, and (at the time of writing) it’s proving to be just that. With two rounds to go and the title race still open ......

In a short-lived but tempestuous and exciting life, motorsports Group B category attracted world-class manufacturers to develop new models. Almost all were technically-advanced, very powerful and striking in many ways - with Fords RS200 being perhaps the most attractive, and the most promising, of them all. Conceived in 1983, built in 1985 and ......

It remains the biggest and the best. It is the official calendar of the FIA World Rally Championship. Its Cinemascope format makes it a must for anyone keen on rallying. No rally fan’s home or office would be complete without "McKlein Rally 2021 - The Wider View" with its unique photographs, all carefully selected by Reinhard Klein and Colin ......

A rally car goes past you in no time at all - roaring, scattering dust or water, drifting sideways or possibly flying low - it passes the spectators quickly and spectacularly. The "2021 Desktop Rally Calendar” offers these moments caught in a photograph, not for eternity, but for a whole year - and new possibilities every fortnight. It sits on ......

The works Minis had a long and distinguished competition history between 1959 and 1970, when British Leyland bosses closed the Abingdon Competition Department. The car started its competition career chasing class awards with the diminutive 850cc Mini, but once race car designer John Cooper persuaded BMC that they should build a hot version, the ......

The word ‘quattro’, chosen by Audi for its pioneering high-performance four-wheel-drive cars, immediately captures glamour and excitement in the minds of all motorsport enthusiasts. This book, written by a leading journalist and quattro devotee, explores 24 years of factory-prepared and factory-supported quattros in motorsport, from 1980 to ......

"The Swiss Wiz" was the nickname of Edi Wyss when he was a race mechanic in England at McLaren around 1970. The play on words sounds like "The Swiss magician" and characterizes precisely what was most appreciated about him, his absolute mastery of technical craftsmanship and his hands-on way of quickly finding a creative solution for every ......

The 47th season of the World Rally Championship started with a bang at Rallye Monte Carlo, but after a back and forth battle through the season Ott Tänak became the first Estonian to take the WRC laurels.

Rally Chile made its debut on the 2019 WRC calendar and proved to be a fast and challenging round, with Thierry ......

When, during the tumultuous 1976 Formula 1 season, Niki Lauda nearly perished in a conflagration at the Nürburgring and then, severely scarred, courageously fought back to race again only six weeks later, the Austrian earned admiration and adulation world-wide. While the saga of that year, and the battle with James Hunt for the World ......

Just as Gumball 3000 is much more than a car rally, 20 Years on the Road is much more than a car book. A best-of compilation of the glitzy and famed international event from the past two decades, this volume is as effervescent and exciting as the road trip itself. "Gumball is about challenging tradition and taking a non-conventional approach to ......

Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, rear-wheel drive car triumphed all around the world, whether it was at the 1970 World Cup Rally, the East African Safari, in Swedish snow or on Finlands high-speed tracks. At its home event, the RAC Rally, the Mk1 and Mk2 versions proved ......

This edition of the book is limited to only 250 numbered copies, contains a hand signature of Hannu Mikkola and comes in a luxuary linen slip case.

The legendary Mk1 & Mk2 in rallying

Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, ......

In 1968, exactly 50 years ago, Porsche won the Monte Carlo Rally for the first time.

That is more than enough reason to take a look back at the Porsche cars that have taken part in the most famous rally in the world.

The very first Porsche team entered the rally in 1952. However, in the overall classification the ......

This follow-up to the authors Vintage Camper Trailers focuses on trailer rallies, events where hundreds of vintage trailers aficionados come together to show off their trailers and share their love of the hobby. It features hundreds of new photos of trailerites and their trailers, along with the fun and festivities that occur at the rallies. ......

Rally cars do not make history every day but one that did hit the headlines was the Escort RS1600 that won the East African Safari Rally in 1972. For twenty years, the Safari had been won by drivers from within the East African community and this was despite all attempts by the European rally hierarchy to change that. Acknowledged as the ......

Dakar Rally is one The of the toughest and most challenging races in the world. Both professional and amateurs compete in modified cars, trucks and on motorcycles. Most of the route is off-road across deserts and mountains. The 2017 Dakar Rally starts in Paraguay and ends in Argentina and provides some of the sternest tests the drivers ever ......

This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the original Ford Escort, one of Europe‘s Landmark Rally Cars in the early 1970s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, how and why it became so important to the sport.
The Escort MkI delivered everything its predecessor, the Lotus-Cortina, had promised. ......

The Audi Quattro is a Rally Giant because it was the first to combine four-wheel-drive and a turbocharged engine – not the most sophisticated, but it was the first, and very successful. It was also the first to run with more than 300bhp. As it was re-homologated/transformed from Group 4 into Group B in 1983, it was also the first successful ......

When Fiat entered rallying in 1970, its ultimate aim was to become World Rally Champion - and the 131 Abarth of 1976-1980 provided the machinery to make that possible. Within the Fiat-Lancia empire, the 131 Abarth not only replaced the 124 Abarth Spider sports car, but was also favoured ahead of the charismatic Lancia Stratos. By 1970s ......

This book spectaculry documents the 2016 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Bolivia with stunning photography and detailed descriptions of the teams and routes taken.

For 2017, McKlein is launching a new calendar series aimed at rallying aficionados. It is named “Rally History”. This wall calendar comes in a 67 x 48 centimetre format and shows a mixture of both rare and well-known images from the McKlein archive in a size and quality never seen before. For its first year, McKlein has chosen the theme “Group ......

A compilation of classic original promotional films from the Nuffield and Standard Triumph archives remastered for DVD

The Alpine was Europe’s greatest summer mountain rally, renowned as one of the toughest of the classic events. The attainment of a ’Coupe des Alps’ award, achieved by undertaking a penalty-free run, brought fame to the ......

After featuring the legendary eras of Group B and Group 4 rallying, McKlein Publishing has now dedicated a book to the early years of the sport. “Group 2 – The genesis of world rallying” is a comprehensive review of the 1950s and 1960s. Then rallying was a big adventure, capable of capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of a Europe that was ......