Cars are hard to beat at getting you to new places

Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a

Peter Strain E very editor wants a boss ...

Last Sunday, 2 November, marked 130 years since the first appearance of ‘a journal published in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage’ in Britain. The Autocar was created in a peri

I have always been a sports-car enthusiast. When I was young, I had subscriptions to Road & Track and Hot Rod, I knew who Carroll Shelby was and I followed the exploits of Phil Hill, John Surtees and

FRANK COSTIN FAMOUSLY didn’t much care for cars. He certainly didn’t consider their aesthetics to be of any great importance. It’s perhaps closer to the truth to say he thought looks irrelevant. All t