Jean birsens

The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

Renault will offer 100 cars from its heritage collection for sale via Artcurial on 7 December. Ranging from early examples to modern-classic concepts, the lots due to go under the hammer include a var

In the first of three helpings of nostalgia this week, we head to a Birmingham site that helped all these vehicles go. Or sometimes not go…

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

You might have noticed that this magazine’s ‘Lost in the archive’ page is usually written by me – voluntarily so. The reason is simple: I’m utterly fascinated by history. The intrigue of times past ha

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…