Volvo p1800

Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

If any vehicle is emblematic of the declining value of pre-war machinery, it is this 1927 Star Vela. The last-known six-cylinder Star to survive in the UK, it’s for sale at just under £30,000 – or rou

When Rover’s SD1 speared its way into the executive class of 1976, it flaunted bold new style and engineering. Time to celebrate 50 years of this British ground-breaker

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

I’M NOT SURE Denmark is big enough for the Kalmar 9X9. I meet Jan Kalmar at the impressive My Garage, a petrolhead destination in Jutland. Jan is proudly Danish and, as it turns out, the rural roads c

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.