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 ...

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 ...

The Intensa Emozione – a name that even people who don’t speak the language will probably guess is the Italian for ‘intense emotion’ – was a limited-production, two-door coupé with a mid-mounted, ...

The timely coming together of three youthful engineering wizards – Giampaulo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani and Giotto Bizzarrini – plus ace New Zealand-born test driver Bob Wallace, resulted in awesome V12 ...

No one, not even designers Eric Broadley and Tony Southgate, could have imagined the impact that their sleek, mid-engined GT prototype, displayed on Lola’s stand at the 1963 London Racing Car Show, ...

Gunnar Palm is standing beside the century-old Olidan powerplant of Trollhättan, the home of Saab. In front are three 96s: a standard white Sport and two rally cars, from which Palm (85) saw a lot of ...

Before WW2, Alvis was a car manufacturer that also happened to make aero engines and military vehicles. After the conflict, that situation was reversed, but the change in priorities was not ...

The well-proven and durable straight-six, arranged in two groups of three-cylinder iron blocks with a single detachable iron (later aluminium) cylinder head, now had a narrower bore but longer stroke ...

The latter is a vital ingredient of the former, and in the low-volume car business both need to be in bountiful supply. Yet it’s important not to overdose on either: just ask any start-up with a ...

Though not a North Yorkshire native, Derek Mathewson’s no-nonsense approach to buying and selling cars perfectly suits the down-to-earth reputation of his surroundings – and seems to have struck a ...