They were the future once

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

It might not seem like it to those of us of a certain age, but the turn of the 21st century happened quite a long time ago: 25 years, in fact – which is, conveniently, the sort of nice rounded number

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John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

There is probably a decent car lurking somewhere within the new generation of Audi A6, but the plugin hybrid version on the biggest wheels and sports springs isn’t it. Air suspension might have helped

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o