Peaky blinder

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Half a century after Pininfarina’s gorgeous 308 hit the market, an open GTS is t

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Beneath the roundels and sponsor stickers of Robert Pulleyn’s 308GTB racer, there actually exists a road-registered Ferrari. It looks completely at home parked here at the top of Harewood’s atmospheri

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“applying the aerodynamics of a racer to a road car is stupid”

The irony of our final approach to Leonardo Fioravanti’s lofty residence, perched high in the hills above Turin, is not lost on me. After emerging unscathed from a high-speed, near-1300km journey from

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Open goal

The persistent (and ultimately unfounded) rumours that cabriolets would be banned in the USA in the aftermath of Ralph Nader’s landmark 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed crops up in the story of virtually

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Vw golf gti mk1

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

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Testarossa returns – but this is no ’80s throwback

This is a new generation of Ferrari Testarossa, far removed from the original production car that was launched in 1984. While there are some styling cues that hint back to that V12-powered classic, th

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I like big boots and i cannot lie

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o

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Life on the limit

Classic & Sports Car

“applying the aerodynamics of a racer to a road car is stupid”

Testarossa returns – but this is no ’80s throwback

Octane

I like big boots and i cannot lie