‘he bought the company because we make great cars’

Detroit muscle and European saloon-car racing were once intertwined. However, AMC was rarely represented on track, which made the arrival of the Spirit AMX all the more unexpected. Team Highball built

Unfortunately, on seeing a McLaren MP4-12C the first thing you want to ask its owner is how its software, door locks, airbags and headlights are behaving. “Faults with these were blown out of proporti

WHEN YOU HEAR the phrase ‘Japanese import’, generally a mental image of Mitsubishi Evos or Subaru Imprezas tends to spring to mind. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, though, Japan also became a f

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

I wonder if any readers recall, or attended, the British Leyland Special Tuning Day at Mallory Park in June 1972. The idea was to showcase the Special Tuning performance upgrades, as well as some more

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.