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John-Joe Vollans assesses the evolution of the hot hatch through two very different examples

When the motor car was new, 120 years ago, hundreds of crazy young men in all corners of the industrialised world – including one Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan – fell to building self-propelled con

The 1990s was not a decade short of ground-shaking cultural reference points: the Britpop battle between Oasis and Blur, Tony Blair and his ‘New Labour’ government, Dolly the sheep… The car industry s

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

Ford’s £400m Project Triton developed the MkIII Transit and staved off growing European competition

I struggled for ages to find a label for the extraordinary photo here before finally coming up with: “Wife comments on styling of husband’s new Fiat Multipla”. As I’m sure you know, such an evocative