The whole 10 yards

This is a story that traces its origins back to the 1970 Turin Motor Show, when the still fresh-faced Lamborghini revealed a baby brother for the Miura. It was called Urraco and its 2.5-litre V8 engin

Rivals is probably a stretch for this one – the idea of cross shopping a Noble M500 and a Lotus Emira V6 SE at their relative price and power points something of a weird little fantasy. But what they

Fair to say I’ve always been a Lotus Elise fan. Lightweight, apparently simple yet deceptively, even archly intelligent in concept, it redefined Lotus for its era. It’s incredible to think that the El

Jack Harrison and I are barrelling into a storm in a borrowed Corvette, exactly as planned. If anything, the plan is working too well: there’s too much storm. Through the bleariness of a slender rain-

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering

Anew world order was emerging in the British sports-car industry by 1980. British Leyland had failed to replace many of its long-playing favourites, such as the Jaguar E-type, MGB and Triumph Stag, le