‘he bought the company because we make great cars’

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

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Mazda MX-5 co-creator Tom Matano passed away last week. We caught up with him back in 2019 to find out his story behind the sports car best-seller

SPECTRAFLAIR. OTHER CAR COMPANIES MIGHT HAVE used DuPont’s wild iridescent paint system, but none employed it to better effect than TVR. It’s a point being proved to us in spectacular style by this gl

ASKING £12,500 PRICE ENGINE 3947cc/V8/OHV POWER 237bhp@5250rpm ...

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