Automobiles get animated

Last Sunday, 2 November, marked 130 years since the first appearance of ‘a journal published in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage’ in Britain. The Autocar was created in a peri

It’s 40 years since Marty McFly went back in time in a DeLorean – the perfect excuse, then, to look at our favourite classic car stars from the Back to the Future trilogy

No, we’re not taking about condemned wrecks that have somehow escaped the scrapyard; we’re celebrating the long-gone cars that have been come back from the grave over the years to be sold in far-flung corners of the globe

There’s a fairytale quality to Sophie Nichols’s work – a cast of tiny characters for whom a gentle push or the turn of a handle is the breath of life

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…

The situation looks chaotic in this mid-Eighties dash for the Channel – but there are plenty of vehicles to keep classic car-spotters occupied