At the end of 1991, Pierluigi faced the biggest sliding-doors moment of his career: at the Spanish GP in September he signed ...

Frazer Nash takes precedence on BMW’s famous roundel. You might even argue a 2002tii would have enjoyed a still more stellar ...

Lita steering wheel. Not only was it a danger to drive, but two-week-old copies of the Daily Mirror were in the sills, w ...

Honda’s hits Although a relative newcomer to the car industry, at least compared with other major manufacturers, Honda is today one of its giants. This could not have happened if Honda hadn’t produced ...

Reach for the sky Gullwing doors are more difficult to design and build than conventional ones and, unless the car manufacturer has taken steps to address this, they might be a cause for regret if you ...

A classic car fan’s guide to 2025 The classic car world is a broad church, and that’s reflected in the hundreds of big- and small-scale events that take place around the world every year. There’s ...

With its all-new V12, traditional front-engine/rear-drive layout and a transaxle ’box to keep the car perfectly balanced, the 456GT helped re-establish Ferrari’s ...

An important part of that legacy is with us today. YW 5758, a 1928 Vanden Plas-bodied 4½ Litre, is now widely recognised as the most successful surviving original-bodied Bentley team car from the ‘WO’ ...

Long before the Toyota Prius or Honda Insight, the term ‘hybrid’ in the automotive world used to refer to cars with major components coming from different places, and often a body or chassis from one ...

Channelling the spirit of Il Sorpasso and La Piscine, the Fiat 2300S and Dino coupés still make seductive cases for themselves, tapping directly into that idea of a louche and sophisticated 1960s ...

The red factory press and publicity Dart, XHP 438, now recognised as the oldest in existence, is not so much the first production SP250 but rather the last prototype of this unlikely breed of ...

Not that the average austerity-ravaged British driver of the post-war era could afford such a high-ticket item as the tailor-made Nash. If a TR2 at £900 all-in was seen as an indulgence, then the ...