Underdog day afternoon

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

We can all see that the first-generation Mazda MX-5 looks a lot like the original Type 26 Lotus Elan, but it was a whole pantheon of British roadsters that helped form this Japanese-made car in the mi

Fact 1: Lotus never made a works racer out of the Seven. Wrong. Although Team Lotus generally left Sevens to the clubmen, it did dabble in a few stealth ‘factory’ cars, namely the early ’60s car known

I took an interest in the Wolseley Hornet Special when I learnt that my father had acquired one as his first car, just after the Second World War. His Eustace Watkins-bodied two-seater was long gone b

We sample the Spitfire that exemplifies courage and true friendship