The atomic age

Compared with any other start-up sports car maker you care to mention, Ariel’s first 25 years of existence have been remarkably wrinkle-free. The company made a profit on its very first production car

Ariel will build a factory close to its current Somerset base as it moves to expand its operations. The new factory will be located to the east of Crewkerne – just off the A303 – on a 43-acre site tha

ALL FOUR ATOMS, back to back, then. It’s rare one gets the chance to do this; I think it’s rare that engineers and marketers even in big car companies get to do this – to take a raft of previous model

We can all see that the first-generation Mazda MX-5 looks a lot like the original Type 26 Lotus Elan, but it was a whole pantheon of British roadsters that helped form this Japanese-made car in the mi

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

‘MY FIRST MEMORABLE CAR EXPERIENCE, at three years old, was falling out of a 1920s 3 Litre Bentley belonging to my godfather, which sounds quite posh. The door opened and I ended up on the road. But y