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

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, ...

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 ...

You hear it long before you see it: the tranquil of this bucolic Hampshire village has been shattered by some hooligan flouting its urban speed limit. Heads turn. The demonic roar and ring-a-ding-ding ...

A few minutes ago you had flung yourself into its spell. You were about to realise adolescent fantasies aboard a Monteverdi 375L, but that was then. A sense of anxiety has since descended, one perhaps ...

Sam has, of late, gone back in time to refocus the efforts of his team on earlier SLs and related models. He says: “The skillset is all about the Pagoda now, and we have tried to bring all skills ...

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 ...

At first it’s hard to imagine a 12-year-old Thierry Boutsen sneaking the keys to his mother’s Fiat 600 for a joyride, such is the Belgian’s calm, pragmatic demeanour. With an earnest smile and a lithe ...

There’s little point in sugar-coating it: as a competition car, the 512 Berlinetta Boxer LM has to be considered a lacklustre footnote in the long and otherwise largely illustrious on-track history of ...

If any early chain-driven motoring monster fits the expression ʻwolf in sheepʼs clothingʼ, it is surely the magnificent Isotta Fraschini Tipo KM. To non-connoisseurs, this once-great Milanese company ...

As the model for Rolls-Royce’s ‘celebrity customers’, this dark-blue HJ Mulliner, Park Ward Silver Cloud III was well chosen as the headlining vehicle in the 1966 film Blow-Up. Here, olde-worlde ...