Unbelievably, it has been a decade since Alfa Romeo revived the Giulia name for its achingly pretty junior executive saloon, the first of just two models to use the billion-dollar Giorgio platform tha

People are prone to certain behavioural ticks, the sort of misjudgements that depart from rationality. This would be one of them. On entering the environs of an active airbase, the sensible thing to d

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Pretty, isn’t it? This is the R33 by Automotive Artisans, a beautiful tribute to the 1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale, one of the great beauties of motoring. Sure was. The Tipo 33 formed the basis of

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Even as a pupil at grammar school, I always thought older cars were somehow cooler than new ones, So I counted myself lucky when I later inherited a Volkswagen 1500 from my mum’s aunt, to become my fi