Saloon selectives

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

It's five miles to Exeter and one car has a half a tank of Esso Extra – will it make it or end up at the roadside?

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

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

There is something rather special about driving a car built in the 1800s. This 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp Voiturette’s single-cylinder motor first burst into life when Queen Victoria was on the throne and pr

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif