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ESSENTIALS Volkswagen Golf R32 Price (new): £22,340 Powertrain: 3.2-litre V6, 238bhp 0-62mph: 6.6 seconds Top speed: 153mph Fuel Consumption: 24.4mpg Annual VED: £430 Alfa Romeo 147 GTA Price (new): £

We were spoiled for choice when it came to outlandish performance that was genuinely attainable back in the Nineties, as this super sextet of buys proves

There’s no shortage of variety with used BMWs. But the bargains? That’s a trickier path to tread – let CAR be your guide

The Gordon GT broke cover at the 1960 Geneva motor show, and took until 1964 to reach (limited) production. It marked the jumping-off point for Giugiaro’s career as a designer: its outline made the le

This 928S4 Sport , a roadgoing offshoot from an aborted race programme, is one of Porsche’s rarest, most ballistic cars. And yet it’s barely known. Is it because it’s not a 911?

Nothing can prepare you for the scale of entering Early 911S. There have been car factories that are smaller, with less inventory, than this Wuppertal premises in Germany’s Rhineland. Only the Porsche