When bmw met bertone

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FIVE CLASSIC TRIALS 1990 BMW Z1

The roll call of cars that were on the scene 50 years ago and which are still being built today is short. It gets shorter still if you stipulate a perfect, unbroken run of production. If you then dism

Has there ever been a model so enigmatic yet charismatic, so awash with magical beauty and talent as the Alfa Romeo Type 33? On the track, Carlo Chiti’s 1966 design took a couple of years to find its

The end of Bristol Cars was both tarnished and unseemly. Given that this was a marque formed over a perfectionist manufacturing ideal, the irony looks especially cruel. Let’s recap Bristol’s final cha

They said Antonio – later ‘Tony’ – Lago was ‘spietato ma con grande fascino’ (which is to say ‘ruthless, but charming’). And they said of his most famous car that it was ‘une veritable oeuvre d’art’.