Look back into rallying’s history books and you’ll see all sorts of wild and wonderful competitors, the Lancia Stratos perhaps the wildest and most wonderful of the lot.

Nowadays, it’s all Fiestas, Polos and DS3s. Great rally cars no doubt, but where’s the variety?

That seems to be the thinking behind this gaggle of wonderful, daydream-inducing renders by Car Wow, which mate modern day sports cars to classic motorsport liveries and body kits.

We shall begin with this Ford Mustang, channelling perhaps its only relation that’s sillier and skiddier, the Ford RS200. We’re scared just looking at it.