Electric vehicles don’t so much divide opinion among C&SC readers as unify them in opposition, judging by our mailbag. So ready the tar and feathers, because now the EV grip has taken hold of one of o

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

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Top-end British classics emerge after 30 years in hiding

Beauty,’ said the 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, ‘is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind… and each mind perceives a different beauty.’ That difference in perce