The Mercedes-Benz CW311 concept, and the Isdera Imperator that emerged from it, harkens to a time when all of our cars looked like they could not only achieve 200mph, but it was their sole purpose. "I ...

Thu, February 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC Isdera was founded in 1982 by a German designer named Eberhard Schulz. Initially employed at Porsche, Schulz then moved to a design firm called B+B, where he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare really is an understatement when it comes to Isdera’s Imperator 108i. The retrofuturistic German supercar, which was produced ...

The decade of the 1980s produced no shortage of supercars, from well-known and fairly high-volume models by Italian automakers to more obscure efforts, drawing equally on parts bin items and cash from ...

The very rare Isdera Imperator 1081 is a Mercedes-powered German supercar of the 1980s with a pretty interesting background. Closely-based on the CW 311 Studie, a Mercedes-Benz forgotten concept car ...

It takes gumption to make your own car and drive it to Porsche’s headquarters with a view to earning yourself a job, but that’s exactly the kind of spirit embodied by Eberhard Schulz, the man who ...

There's nothing better to bring forth an unexpected wave of nostalgia than a pristine example of a very rare, purely ‘80s supercar. Like this Isdera Imperator 108i coming up for auction. Isdera was a ...

I have a saying about Isderas: They're the best and I love them. So you can bet that when news emerged today that another example of the boutique German automaker's few machines was headed for the ...

If you’re a fan of strange boutique sports cars from the ’80s and ’90s, you may already know about Isdera. Founded by a former Porsche engineer, Isdera built Mercedes-powered machines with radical ...

This unusual supercar is a 1991 Isdera Imperator 108i Series 2, and it's coming up for auction on February 27 in Miami via RM Sotheby's. Isdera built just 30 Imperators over a nine-year span, and all ...

This unusual supercar is a 1991 Isdera Imperator 108i Series 2, and it's coming up for auction on February 27 in Miami via RM Sotheby's. Isdera built just 30 Imperators over a nine-year span, and all ...