Broken record

Practical, with searing pace and saloon car practicality, relatively stable prices allow this ultimate Eighties Ford to remain one of the hottest modern classics to buy

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

‘WHERE’S YOUSUF?’ THE NIGHT IS DRAWING IN, AND SO IS the weather. Rain is blowing sideways across the North York Moors and lashing the White Horse Inn’s windowpanes as we assemble on the eve of this p

No matter what the onslaught of incredible stats, it’s the gearknob I remember most. Sure, when the McLaren F1 was launched in 1994 it cost £540,000 (plus taxes) and there was talk of a 6.0-litre V12

What’s the price of indifference? In the case of TWR’s Tom Walkinshaw, it was the development of an alternative to Jaguar’s XJ220, the prototype of which he’d just surveyed at the 1988 British Motor S

Why wait? Maximum driving fun can be yours from as little as £5k – go on, treat yourself this summer!