Lament for ford

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

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

I’m excited to hear that Matt Prior is about to take delivery of a Morgan Super 3 as a long-termer, with the aim of pressing it into service as a daily driver. I first had the pleasure of driving a Su

The First World on a good day ...

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

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