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CONVERTIBLES are becoming a critically endangered species, with sales of drop-top cars plunging over the past decade-and-a-half as buyers are instead tempted by more fashionable high-riding SUVs. Whil

MOMENTOUS EVENTS – YOUR wedding, the birth of your first child, being knighted – don’t come around very often, so it’s tempting to push the boat out with celebrations. Of course, some folks’ boats are

FUN FACT: BACK IN 1985 TOYOTA LOOKED at turning the MR2 into a Group B rally car. A bunch of prototypes were built just in time for the legendarily wild series to be cancelled. I didn’t think I could

YOU’RE LYING ON the beach, gently glistening with suntan lotion. The sun’s doing some of its best work in ages, and your mind is empty of everything aside from the glorious hovering sensation of perfe

FIAT GRANDE PANDA PRICE: from £20,975 The Panda was distinctly endangered for a while there (though you can still buy the old petrol one in Italy), but it’s been given a new lease of life with an elec

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