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Ford Sierra RS500 #25 Zakspeed A. Hahne Winner DTM Nürburgring 1988 Minichamps 1:18

Ford Sierra RS500 #25 Zakspeed A. Hahne Winner DTM Nürburgring 1988 Minichamps 1:18 100888025 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Sierra RS500 reproduces car #25, driven by Armin Hahne to a Zakspeed Nurburgring win during the 1988 DTM season, one of the standout results from Ford's turbocharged assault on Germany's touring car championship. Cast in zinc alloy with opening doors, bonnet and boot, it exposes the Cosworth engine bay and roll cage behind the dense Zakspeed sponsor livery. The RS500 name itself marks the limited road-car run Ford built purely to homologate it. A genuinely documented result for any DTM turbo-era shelf.
Ford Sierra RS500 #25 Zakspeed A. Hahne Winner DTM Nürburgring 1988 Minichamps 1:18
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Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
100888025
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About the Ford Sierra RS500 #25 Zakspeed A. Hahne Winner DTM Nürburgring 1988 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast reproduces the Ford Sierra RS500 #25 that Armin Hahne drove to a Zakspeed Nürburgring win in the 1988 DTM season, the homologation special whose very name marks the 500 road cars Ford built to legalise it. Zinc-alloy construction with opening doors, bonnet and boot exposes the turbocharged Cosworth engine bay and roll cage.

Ford built exactly enough RS500 road cars to satisfy Group A homologation rules, a run that turned an already potent Sierra Cosworth into the most feared touring car of the late 1980s. Zakspeed campaigned the works cars in the 1988 DTM season, and this #25 example, driven by Armin Hahne to a Nürburgring victory, captures one of that campaign's standout results.

The RS500 and Zakspeed's 1988 DTM Campaign

A Homologation Special Named for Its Own Production Run

The RS500's name refers directly to the limited run of road-going examples Ford built to satisfy Group A homologation requirements, a rule that forced manufacturers to sell a minimum number of a model to the public before racing its competition derivative. Ford used that homologation run to upgrade the Sierra Cosworth's turbocharged engine, bodywork and aerodynamics specifically for racing purposes, producing a road car that existed almost entirely to unlock a far more serious competition specification. The result became one of the most dominant Group A touring cars of its era, capable of overwhelming rivals on power even when its handling demanded a skilled driver to exploit fully.

Armin Hahne's Nürburgring Win for Zakspeed

Zakspeed ran the works Ford effort in DTM through the late 1980s, fielding the RS500 as the series' benchmark turbocharged car against naturally-aspirated rivals from BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Armin Hahne, driving car number 25, took a Nürburgring victory during the 1988 season, a result that reflected both the RS500's raw power advantage on a circuit with long straights and Zakspeed's engineering strength as a team. Minichamps reproduces that specific number and livery, tying the model to a documented result rather than a generic season-long colour scheme.

Minichamps' Casting of a Turbocharged Touring Car

Zinc Alloy Weight and Zakspeed's Sponsor Livery

The Zakspeed Sierra's sponsor livery carries dense graphics across the bonnet, doors and rear wing, and getting that decal register exactly right across every panel is a harder task than a simpler factory colour scheme would demand. Minichamps' zinc alloy construction gives the model enough mass to hold the RS500's aggressive whale-tail rear wing and wide box arches with real presence on a shelf, rather than the lightness that can make an aerodynamically extreme touring car feel toy-like at smaller scales. Panel definition around the flared arches and the deep front splitter stays sharp, details that matter because the RS500's aerodynamic package is as much a part of its identity as the engine underneath.

Opening Panels Onto the Cosworth Engine Bay

The doors, bonnet and boot open on this casting, and lifting the bonnet reveals the turbocharged Cosworth engine bay in its competition specification, the powerplant that made the RS500 the class of the DTM field on raw output. The opened doors show a stripped racing cockpit, roll cage and racing seat replacing the road car's standard fittings, a cabin treatment that tells the competition story more directly than the sponsor livery alone.

The RS500's Place in DTM's Turbo Era

At 1:18 the Sierra RS500's wide-arched touring car body comes out close to 24 centimetres long, its aggressive stance visually distinct from the narrower, more understated BMW and Mercedes-Benz rivals it raced against, a contrast that tells the story of DTM's brief turbocharged era before regulations pushed the series toward naturally-aspirated engines. That era ended relatively quickly, making surviving RS500 liveries from specific, documented races like this Nürburgring win a genuine window into a period German touring car racing does not fully resemble today. Displayed alongside the naturally-aspirated rivals it beat and lost to across that 1988 season, this Sierra tells a more complete DTM story than a single manufacturer's cars ever could alone. Zakspeed's specific sponsor livery on this example also distinguishes it from other teams running the same RS500 chassis across the same DTM season, a detail worth checking against period photography for anyone assembling a full-grid recreation of a single race weekend.

A Genuine DTM Icon at a Fair Price

The Sierra RS500 holds a level of significance in touring car history that few road-derived racing cars can match, and Minichamps' mid-tier diecast pricing puts a documented, race-winning livery within reach without the premium a rarer resin reproduction of the same subject would command. For collectors building a DTM turbo-era theme, or specifically tracking Zakspeed's works campaigns, this Hahne example anchors the collection with a real result rather than a speculative colour scheme. It is one of the more historically grounded pieces available at this price point, and it rewards anyone who takes the time to compare it against period race footage.

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