Taking stock

This week marks the the MoT test’s 65th anniversary. We look back on the seismic changes that it brought to British roads and motorists alike

MoT exemption for classics divides owners but official figures illustrate safety concerns and experts agree that the test remains valuable

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

This photo is 65 years old but a large number of the cars have survived

THE FIRST ERAS TEST WAS SPECIAL. PERFECT ROADS, CRISP spring weather and a chance to get under the skin of six ’80s icons, cars my more senior colleagues earned their road-testing stripes in. Being ev