Accordingly the cars were rebadged as the Hansa 1100 for 1959 and given a further restyle, with a stepped chrome side strip and integral rear fins. Yet it was all to no avail. In the 1959 model year, ...

So it has a magnificent motor, handbuilt in Newport Pagnell like all the four-cam, Tadek Marek-designed V8s that starred as the lead act in every Aston from the DBS V8 of 1969 until bowing out at a ...

The Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.8 AMG ‘Rote Sau’ (Red Pig) is one of the marque’s best-known touring cars and this week the brand’s former design chief has shared his 21st-century reimagining of this ...

Ferrari Dino 246GTS vs F355GTS, a rare Opel Ascona 400, 1950s British saloons and much more – the latest Classic & Sports Car ...

Alfa Romeo dealer Bell & Colvill imported small numbers of Spiders in the 1980s and converted them to RHD. When it first appeared in 1966, the Spider was a great formula: all-alloy twin-cam, ...

I originally created my Triumph Special 30 years ago, using full-size paper patterns. It loosely resembled an MG J2, being flat-sided with a slab tank. It was constructed from ¾in plywood with an ...

Tony Collins, the founder of I Say, Ding Dong!, concedes that his business has “a silly name”.

For all their apparent differences, the Lancia Thema 8.32 and Lotus Carlton share plenty. Both were created for the same reason: a large car manufacturer conferring its more exotic connections on to a ...

Despite Ferrari’s trademark, lightning-quick rack and trick rear-wheel steering, the 12Cilindri has natural responses whichever ‘ manettino ’ driving mode is selected on the steering-wheel-mounted ...

In fact, he was known to reserve the least affection of all for the SP250 Dart, a model that had already bombed embarrassingly (and expensively) in the North American market for which it was intended.

Heynes’ original idea for the XJ project in the early ’60s was to create a four-door, four-seat E-type, a low-slung sports saloon that would take the fight to the Europeans in the ’70s and recapture ...

My memory goes back to the days of two-, three-, four- and even full-fat five-star petrol: nobody had even heard of unleaded. A time when the self-service pumps we have today had become all but ...