Alfa reviled?

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

With its removable blue police light mounted Starsky & Hutch-style on the roof and fake Italian police decals on the doors and bonnet, Lorenzo Wojtanowski’s green, left-hand-drive 1969 Alfa Romeo Giul

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60

What if I told you there was a place in Japan where your wildest fantasies could be brought to life? Not that one. I’m talking about the one where the car in your garage looks as good as a 250 Testa R

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