Origin story: autocar turns 130

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

I ran has been back in the headlines recently – the latest chapter in the half-century-long tale of an international pariah. The state’s isolation, due to its government’s militant rejection of the We

The very first Aston Martin, built in 1914, just months before the start of the First World War. Development of the car slowed for obvious reasons, yet that didn’t stop Lionel Martin driving it to Wil

The parking for Presto, where suddenly your pound is worth more with McVitie’s Swiss Rolls available for only 17½p each. Bargain!

Jackie Stewart’s victory in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring at the wheel of his Tyrrell-run Matra rightly drew the plaudits of Denis Jenkinson. “Caracciola may have been the Regenmeister, Ros

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri