Brains & breeding

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60

If the 1963-’65 Buick Riviera is not the peak of American luxury coupes, I cannot think of one that looks better. It was the early ’60s passion project of General Motors’ styling vice president Bill M

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

It's five miles to Exeter and one car has a half a tank of Esso Extra – will it make it or end up at the roadside?

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’