Eastern bloc horrors

The situation looks chaotic in this mid-Eighties dash for the Channel – but there are plenty of vehicles to keep classic car-spotters occupied

DUNSTABLE DOWNS, BEDFORDSHIRE

No, we’re not taking about condemned wrecks that have somehow escaped the scrapyard; we’re celebrating the long-gone cars that have been come back from the grave over the years to be sold in far-flung corners of the globe

CHINA reportedly produced more than 31 million cars last year alone – almost double the amount cranked out across the whole of Europe. Indeed, many big European brands have capacity in China, either b

While the crises of the Seventies had ravaged much of the established car industries, Japan prospered through innovation. On the cusp of the Eighties, Tokyo showed us the future of motoring

In the Skoda anniversary special supplementing this issue, we mention a rear-engined model of the late 1970s having “dangerous” handling characteristics – and we weren’t exaggerating. Skoda had planne