The gentleman’s cobra

The proof of this car being something special is actually at the back, in the boot. The AC’s roof has been stowed here for decades, and the bars for it are in a homemade protective wrap made from news

We can all see that the first-generation Mazda MX-5 looks a lot like the original Type 26 Lotus Elan, but it was a whole pantheon of British roadsters that helped form this Japanese-made car in the mi

am being overtaken by my own wing. As I tilt up onto Boxberg test ground’s banking and the sun curves behind me, the lengthening shadows project the great roll hoop of a spoiler onto the road ahead. S

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

I took an interest in the Wolseley Hornet Special when I learnt that my father had acquired one as his first car, just after the Second World War. His Eustace Watkins-bodied two-seater was long gone b