Mg design: shouting from the rooftop

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

What do you do if you’re Vauxhall? The things we worried about a few years ago – it being in the squeezed middle, neither a premium brand nor a value brand, which are the main places profitable car ma

The Jet was based on a DB4 GT platform that departed the UK in December 1960. Giugiaro rustled up a new outline with breakneck speed, while Bertone’s artisans fashioned the new body inside three month

The Gordon GT broke cover at the 1960 Geneva motor show, and took until 1964 to reach (limited) production. It marked the jumping-off point for Giugiaro’s career as a designer: its outline made the le

MG’s meteoric rise from the ashes continues at pace. The UK is now the brand’s second largest global market; 320,000 cars have found homes here over the last five years, 100,000 of which were EVs. But