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As with so many Porsches, there are myriad permutations of the 944, but, once you’ve got your head around that, the Turbo S coupé adds up. In the last five years it’s outperformed the collectable Pors

Why James Walshe reckons this is the ultimate modern classic Porsche

Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

Every so often a brilliant GTI leaves Wolfsburg – look no further than the 1976 original or the new Edition 50. But why have so many of them been so underwhelming?