August 1996

THE SQUARE, BOURNEMOUTH

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

The classics you love, drive and restore

Autocar and the Volvo Amazon estate share a little bit of history. Back in 1965, the model became Britain’s first foreign-sourced traffic police car when Hampshire Constabulary purchased five of them.

In 1973, the arrival of a new Toyota Crown raised eyebrows in our middle-England cul-de-sac, where most driveways were decorated with conservatively styled British products, plus the occasional Fiat o

Traditional classic or modern classic? The MG RV8 of 1992-95 is a hard car to pigeonhole. It looks (a bit) like a classic MGB but has a wider track, upgraded suspension and a thumping great 3.9-litre