The atomic age

IF you want the most visceral, thrilling and mind-blowing driving experience you can find at any money today, you’d be hard pushed to find anything more distinctive and exciting than the Ariel Atom. A

TWO miles. That’s as far as it takes driving the Ariel Atom after a 4.30am start on a cool autumn morning before we realise that a sweatshirt isn’t going to cut it. Time to put the big coat on before

FEW cars look as distinctive as the Caterham Seven, and with that unique look comes a unique driving experience. The Seven is designed to be a driver’s car, with all other modern comforts that might d

The first use of ‘sports car’ is often credited to Vauxhall’s C10 Prince Henry, but in many ways the term would be better applied to this, the earlier 20hp A-type. Disarmingly handsome, low-slung and

I WAS PERHAPS about nine or ten years old and we had spent the day at Frensham Pond in Surrey with our neighbours, my father’s Vauxhall 14 following our neighbour’s Standard Vanguard (in two-tone blue

A 60-YEAR-OLD car with just over 20,000 miles on the clock, no matter what the marque, is a rare beast. That it had remained in the same ownership all its life is unusual, and that it should survive u