Morris Leslie’s final sale of 2025 offered plenty of heartland motors at tempting prices

STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

It seems to me that old cars are the nearest thing we have to working time machines: they are ideal for triggering memories, or even the feel and flavour of a particular era. Sports cars, of course, a

IT’S BARELY TWO months since I was gushing over Mazda’s bone-stock 1.6-litre heritage fleet car on these pages, so the idea of replacing that engine with a 3.0-litre V6 (of more than twice the power!)

ASKING £7995 PRICE ENGINE 1485cc/4-cyl/OHC POWER 75bhp@5500rpm TORQUE ...

LOOKING BACK, it seems like fate. I was on my way to view a classic car that was coming up for sale at an auction when the automatic gearbox in my 2006 Volvo XC70 began to overheat and slip. It’s done