1958 montesa fura

The five-valve pioneer that paved the way for the FZR, EXUP, OW01, R1 and more…

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

ONE OF THE problems that car designers have when visiting a motor show is talking to other designers. Not about the weather but about each other’s work. Former students in senior positions at well-kno

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

Is bonkers new Italjet Dragster 700 a work of genius – or the worst of both worlds?

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60