As we go into the new year, it’s hard to believe that we are already a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century! To make you feel even older, let’s go back 40 years, to 1986, and the first

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The Beetle went into serious production in December 1945 but there were a lot of changes over the years. Here’s our guide to this Volkswagen's many iterations

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Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

It seems to me that old cars are the nearest thing we have to working time machines: they are ideal for triggering memories, or even the feel and flavour of a particular era. Sports cars, of course, a