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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

Alfasud designer Giorgetto Giugiaro was given carte blanche by Volkswagen to design the Golf, the Italian chosen because he’d studied manufacturing methods. The car entered production with minimal cha

JUST HOW DO you replace a legendary car like the 105-series Alfa Romeo Giulia? The range of sporting saloons and sexy coupés was not only backed by motorsport success, it also gained a cult following

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

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri