New tech to save old cars

HERE in the UK we live among an ageing population, and that goes for cars just as much as people. The latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders shows that the average car on UK r

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

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri

R e gular readers of Practical Classics will ...

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