Henry’s hot heritage

It’s 25 years since Britain first clapped eyes on Ford’s Focus RS. We look back at a great Noughties hot hatch

FORD MUSTANG GTD

Time for some corners – famously a source of concern with the RS

ON AVERAGE, PALM SPRINGS GETS AS little as five inches of rainfall per year, but today all of it seems to have arrived at once. Hours earlier we were being baked by intense 40-degree heat, but thick g

It’s probably unwise for a lowly road tester to even attempt a Churchillian tone. Thankfully, I’m only paraphrasing. Have we reached the end for the conventional, established, petrol-swilling hot hatc

Alfasud designer Giorgetto Giugiaro was given carte blanche by Volkswagen to design the Golf, the Italian chosen because he’d studied manufacturing methods. The car entered production with minimal cha