Righting the wrongs of history

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

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.

Bought new by Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, this Jensen Interceptor Convertible was one of the last cars the original Jensen firm built. Out of hiding for the first time in decades, it’s time for a rock ’n’ roll drive

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

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