Best foot forward

In February 1948, the Cadillac Series 62 Coupe became the first American car with tailfins, inspired by the Lockheed P38 Lightning aircraft. A decade later, they reached such baroque heights on US car

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

We can all see that the first-generation Mazda MX-5 looks a lot like the original Type 26 Lotus Elan, but it was a whole pantheon of British roadsters that helped form this Japanese-made car in the mi

The post-war story of Rover provides one of the richest seams of intriguing might-have-beens and one-offs that you’ll find anywhere in the history of the automobile. There was everything from Topolino

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

I took an interest in the Wolseley Hornet Special when I learnt that my father had acquired one as his first car, just after the Second World War. His Eustace Watkins-bodied two-seater was long gone b