By name and by nature

WRITE TO autocar@haymarket.com Your conversation with Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer (Grapevine, 9 July) certainly caught me eye. Five of my past six cars have been Skodas, but I’m very determined that my cu

The First World on a good day ...

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

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

EMAIL OF THE MONTH

REGARDING your cover story in Octane 265 about the Ferrari F50, in the 1990s I worked for a Ferrari garage (Specialised Cars of Knutsford) that race-prepared an F50 for the Maranello Ferrari Challenge