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The end of Bristol Cars was both tarnished and unseemly. Given that this was a marque formed over a perfectionist manufacturing ideal, the irony looks especially cruel. Let’s recap Bristol’s final cha

Few cars have run counter to their maker’s reputation as starkly as the Jowett Jupiter, a model that transformed the image of the Yorkshire minnow when it was launched in 1950. High-tech, engineered c

The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

Spare a thought for the MPV, won’t you? The multi-purpose vehicle, as it was known, was a big, boxy thing sometimes described back in its heyday as a people carrier. As opposed to what I never knew: w

In a parallel universe, this book might have been called MG Maestro 6R4. As John Davenport, the former Director of Motorsport for British Leyland, mentions in his foreword, the Maestro was a more prom