In 1976 the Fiat 131 Abarth Stradale took victory on the Elba Island Rally and Finland’s 1000 Lakes, but this was simply the ...

But this is what they have been waiting for: 14 years after the last of the revived MG TFs left the now-silent Longbridge ...

As the first unitary-bodied British Ford, it was structurally over-built, much like most early monocoques, which meant Abbott could chop away at the back end without fear of the finished product ...

At the time he owned a Bristol 404, an elegant coupé whose rear wings had small fins, vestiges of the 450’s, and it was through enthusiastic research that Boré discovered the 450 Le Mans. Of the four ...

The X100 has endured as one of Jaguar’s most attractive, capable and commercially successful models of the past 30 years, but following privatisation in 1984 the company was in a parlous financial ...

This was not a car evolved with the ruthless calculation underpinning, say, a Ford Cortina. Yet it had a coherent logic of its own, both aesthetically and commercially. Tying the proportions of the ...

These cars traded on fading memories of the make’s Grand Prix and sports-racing successes, and prioritised elegance and exclusivity over headline-making technical solutions. Cart-sprung Salisbury rear ...

I was not alone in being born cynical about Japanese vehicles and had some sympathy with my gran who, recalling the suffering of prisoners of war during WW2, refused to buy any car from the Land of ...

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The era’s poor-quality fuel encouraged that even further. If you want an undersquare engine to have a half-decent ability to rev, you need to make it as smooth and as well-balanced as possible – which ...

Bought new for £7249 in 1970 (£97,500 in 2025 money), a good Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet – one of 68 right-hookers – ...

Many Volvo Amazons have been modified, so check the type number on the commission plate: 1959-on the first figure was body ...