American buyers weren’t exactly spoiled for choice when it came to high-performance sports cars, so for many buyers the decision would have been between the costly yet exotic E-type, with its achingly ...
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.
With great memories of an epic Gullwing road trip years ago still fresh in the mind, I don’t hesitate when asked which car I want to drive first. Getting into this 1954 300SL feels very familiar, but ...
The opening of chequebooks crystallised Lamborghini’s future. A far cry from Ferruccio’s sober dreams of GT perfection, Sant’Agata would sell forward-looking drama. But a fully production-ready ...
Roesch had originally been brought in to create a new car, but his advanced A12 proposal was dropped when in 1919 Talbot was acquired by the French-based – but British-owned – Darracq. Roesch, ...
Sure, there’s no vertiginous urban landscape to get it airborne, or a vast, arid vista to admire from its vinyl Hi-Back bucket seat as you spool through The Doors’ songbook in your head. But its ...
It was a messy end to the relationship, but the birth of one of the most fascinating, often baffling, motoring stories. The entire Monteverdi marque is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, ...
But it was Ferrari’s original 360 Modena, from which the Challenge was derived, that had laid down the supercar gauntlet four years before, and today it has to be the most usable and best-value ...
In this pre-Mini Britain of 40bhp, 70mph family cars that offered lots of value for money but not much joy, it could be argued that the complacent monoliths of BMC, Ford and Rootes were too ...